Strange Greenfellows: Wal-Mart Getting Curioser

Amory Lovins a consultant for Wal-Mart? Northwest Arkansas News reports that The Rocky Mountain Institute has been hired by the global empire to advise on fuel-efficient trucking and green construction (thanks Sustainablog).

Sheesh, what next? "Always Greener, Always" logos on those ubiquitous trucks wrecking our freeways at taxpayer expense while corporate titans retreat to barbed-wire compounds and plot how to wring more hours out of below-minimum-wage workers?

Yeah I got a bad attitude. Go for it Amory! Whack the Wal-Mart wumpus!

-- Paul Andrews, GreenforGood

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Do We Have to Turn Everything Into Microsoft vs. Google?

CNET: Microsoft vs. Google: Who's Greener?

Interesting article, although it perpetuates two silly, false, corporate-media cliches. The first has to do with greener-than-thou. Who cares? We're all in this together. It isn't a race where the winner gets to live on a healthy planet and the losers die from climate disruption. If we all don't win, we all go down.

Second is the tiresome and ultimately pointless Microsoft-vs.-Google competition. Google is doing some exciting things, although its power and influence are worrisome. Microsoft is a big, fat, slow lost cause and cannot even upgrade its own creaky, worm-infested software, let alone compete in the new digital economy.

Still, it's great that both companies actually think about, and are doing something about, sustainable living.

-- Paul Andrews, GreenforGood

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Prius Sales Reach Half a Million

Reuters: Toyota Prius sales top 500,000

-- Paul Andrews, GreenforGood

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When Diet Means Losing Lives, Not Pounds

Planet Save: "Known carcinogen present in soft drinks since 1990."

We all know more and more people who are getting cancer. We all know people who drink this stuff. Please email this link to your family and friends as yet another reminder of what we're doing to ourselves. This story would make a great advertisement for a natural fruit drink btw.

-- Paul Andrews, GreenforGood

Back on Blog -- Thanks Shea!

Nice mention from Shea Gunther about GreenforGood. I wanted to thank him earlier but Blogger has been in vapor lock for the past couple of days. Good luck to the folks at Blogger in getting those servers rehabbed!

Check out Shea's "Offset My Life" site as well. This is a great way to raise your knowledge of how you individually are impacting global warming, as well as take action.

The ultimate goal, as I've written before, is to simply do away with unnecessary carbon-producing activities (rather than simply try to pay them off). Prime example: Flying. If you can drive you save hundreds of pounds of carbon going into the atmosphere, especially if you carpool with one or more others. But when you just haveta pollute, green tags are the best thing going to counter your impact.

-- Paul Andrews, GreenforGood

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