Reading Response #9- Website: Local Burger

What a great idea! I love places like Local Burger. I wish that every restaurant was run with the same consicouness as Local Burger. I personally have a deep appreciation for locally run businesses and if they are health and environmentally conscious also that is such a bonus! This website is obviously geared toward Lawrence, [...]

Reading Response #6: website review: The Guerrilla Gardener

Guerrilla gardening is the type of thing that most people wouldn’t even think about in their usual day-to-day life. This website though, plants a new idea into anyone who is interested in public space and planting. The audience for this site would be fellow gardeners with a taste for some subversive ideas. I think that [...]

Reading Response #8- Website: Klean Kanteen

Klean Kanteen is a site that appeals to our fears of the dreaded BPA. The Klean Kanteen site is easy to navigate and is esthetically pleasing to look at. This website is geared towards people who are environmentally conscious as well as conscious about what they put in their bodies. Klean Kanteen also appeals to [...]

Reading Response 6 – Oh, the Schadenfreude

“Who Wants My Biofuel?,” written by Rebecca Buckman, is a simply hilarious insight into the government incentives and common misconceptions behind “green” technologies. Buckman’s description of the thought processes and gambles taken by Imperium Renewables is priceless. Essentially, the founders saw an opportunity to lock their company into a government mandated share of the diesel [...]

Reading Response #7-Oil Exploration Can be a Boon to Alaskans and Environment

Last year in my English class we each wrote an essay on ANWR and the effects that oil exploration would have on the environment. It was an argumentative essay and we had to choose a side, for or against oil exploration. Being someone who is new to Alaska and not very familiar with ANWR I [...]

Response 7 TreeHugger Website Review

So where would all the news environmentalists go for updates? Well, one option is  the website, “Tree Hugger.”  Here we have a website for mostly the environmentalist.  If this is your interest or reflection of lifestyle, the website will be a great fix. Using the internet medium, we have a page heavily laden with news [...]

Response 6 The Green Guide Website Review

It seems there are billions of pages out there to stumble through on the web.  Some we find during our boredom at work; some we find looking for something specific through google.  Here’s a site that may occupy both curiosities.  Within the website, The Green Guide, we have something well worth the time. The site [...]

Reading Response #6-Nothing Wasted, Everything Gained

In the article Nothing Wasted, Everything Gained the authors, Alan Weisman and Antonin Kratochvil visit a small fully sustainable community in Colombia. The community, named Gaviotas, has its own water supply, hydroponic farming system, and a turpentine factory. Throughout the article the authors point out that Gaviotas is fully sustainable and does not create any [...]

Response 8: Vegetarian is the New Prius

How many American’s out there want to be a vegetarian?  Probably not many Americans would like to be a vegetarian in comparison to the total population.  What does it matter anyways?  If someone wants to eat meat go ahead, if they don’t that’s fine too.  No one ever hears about how being a vegetarian is [...]

Resp 8: Recycling Made Fun

The audience of the website Earth911 are people who are worried about the environment and are looking for ways to make a difference. The main point of the website is to motivate people to recycle by informing them of ways that they can recycle which can save them money, help others, and help the environment. [...]