Green Options

June’s most often associated with weddings, summer vacations, and Father’s Day… as you can see by the headline, we went in some other directions that month, too.

Summer was here, and the living was sustainable… and here are some of our best efforts.

June 2008

• Caroline Savery declared that one of the top rules of living sustainbly is “Have fun!”
• Zachary Shahan offered a new twist on “think global, act local”: sustainability starts at the inidividual level.
• Mark Winstein answered the question “What is an investment product?”
• Low Impact Living listed 10 Ways to Cut Home Energy Consumption.

Converting the U.S.’s ample and renewable volumes of cow manure into biogas could provide as much as 3 percent of the nation’s electricity needs, say two researchers at the University of Texas at Austin.

In a new study published in the online journal Environmental Research Letters, Amanda Cuéllar and Michael Webber conclude that harnessing the full potential of cow poop power could not only help generate as much — or more — electricity as wind and solar power do today, but could greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Crave Brothers Dairy Farm has teamed up with Clear Horizons to run a computer-controlled anaerobic digestion system that generates electricity—enough to run their rural Wisconsin farm and cheese plant and power up to 120 homes from the organic waste of their 750 Holsteins.

Source: Mothering.com