From the monthly archives: July 2007
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Hummer H2 Gets Owned in Hill Climb Race by Ford Model T Driven by a 70 Year old man

By On July 31, 2007

Pure pwnage…

It wasn’t a fair fight at all, but for funsies, a vintage-car hill-climb allowed Forbes Magazine to enter a late model HUMMER H2. You know, just to see how the 316-hp, 4WD SUV would do against, say, a 100-hp 1921 Model T driven by a 70-year-old man. Like we said, it wasn’t [...]

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Tales from the Bizarro World: What if General Motors Hired Rush Limbaugh to promote how Green they are?

By On July 30, 2007

I promise you, I am not making this up. This is not from the Onion.

GM hired Rush Limbaugh to do a radio ad about how Green a company they are.

Rush Limbaugh. The fat drug addict right-wing hypocrite ignorant jerkass blowhard.

GM. The most un-green company this side of Monsanto, the one [...]

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From the Democratic Presidential Debate: How many of you took a private jet here?

By On July 30, 2007

I thought this was an interesting moment in the Democratic Presidential debate- How many of you took a private jet to this debate? Most hands went up. I think Kucinich rode a locally made bike after eating organic veggies grown within 10 miles of his hotel.

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Adventures in Lobster Liberation- or how I put $125 into the sea to swim away

By On July 30, 2007

My kids go to an awesome little co-op preschool where my wife Heather runs recruitment. She helped organize a fundraiser last fall where I ended up winning the door prize- a gift certificate for a Lobster dinner for two. It was with one of those dealies that actually ship you the lobsters overnight. I’m really [...]

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Would you like some Yellow #5 with your “Organic” bran muffin? The USDA is destroying Organic Food Standards

By On July 29, 2007

The USDA is trying very very hard to completely gut the Organic Foods Standard…

You know organic has gone mainstream when Wal-Mart starts selling it. In fact, organic products are the fastest growing segment of the agricultural market. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says organic sales jumped 22 percent last year. A growing number [...]

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More bad news from Iraq: The magnified negative impact of war on children

By On July 28, 2007

We. Must. Get. Out. Of. Iraq.

There are too many reasons now why Bush’s stupid war needs to be ended yesterday. Add this one to the pile…

As would be expected, Iraqi children living in Jordanian camps report witnessing gruesome events related to the war. These sorts of trauma leave indelible marks on children’s [...]

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Jerkass of the Week Award: Senator Lamar Alexander- a true dunce of the highest order

By On July 28, 2007

Tennessee Senator (you guessed it, a Republican) Lamar Alexander is a moron. He thinks wind farms “destroy the landscape“.

To a lot of people, it’s hard to imagine why anyone would actually be against renewable energy. It’s a little bit like being against puppies. Yet these opponents exist, and I’m sorry to say [...]

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Happy Birthday Treehugger!

By On July 28, 2007

I started reading Treehugger in 2005, not too long after they launched and when I was first discovering blogs. I’ve been a daily reader ever since- it’s hard not to. They have some of the best writers on the web- a lot of of my favorite green bloggers are Treehuggers – and I’m a [...]

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Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day to Noel!

By On July 27, 2007

Hug your Sysadmin today for it’s System Administrator Appreciation Day.

Our designer/sysadmin Noel kicks much ass and everyone at Planetsave and Green Options appreciates all the hard work he does having to deal with us non-coder types who sometimes break things when we shouldn’t.

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PepsiCo cops to the news: Aquafina bottled water is from the tap

By On July 27, 2007

LOL

Aquafina bottled water is tap water. You’re paying $2 for a plastic bottle and a bunch of tap water. Ha. Ha. Ha.

NEW YORK (Reuters) — PepsiCo Inc. will spell out that its Aquafina bottled water is made with tap water, a concession to the growing environmental and political opposition to [...]

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Heathrow Airport’s wickedly sinister legal move against five million people concerned about Global Warming

By On July 27, 2007

If you thought the RIAA was evil for suing 7 year olds over music downloads wait until you get a load of this…

Here’s a doozy for you: on Wednesday, the aviation industry is taking five million people – including a lot of their own staff – to court. If you’re a member [...]

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Paris Hilton should shut her stupid pie hole about going Green

By On July 27, 2007

The Green movement needs Paris Hilton like I need a hole in the head. Don’t get me wrong, I am not a Paris Hilton hater. I think she’s done remarkably well and is either a secretly shrewd person or has some really good handlers. She’s turned herself into a mega valuable brand and for [...]

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Dancing to those sweet crunchy grooves could power the lights at the show

By On July 26, 2007

Green design = smart design = green design. This is awesomely cool…

Two graduate students at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning want to harvest the energy of human movement in urban settings, like commuters in a train station or fans at a concert.

The so-called “Crowd Farm,” as envisioned by James Graham and [...]

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Planetsaver Hero of the Day: Turns down $5,000,000,000 (that’s five BILLION) to protect ancestral lands

By On July 26, 2007

Holy crap.

JEFFREY LEE is not interested in the soaring price of uranium, which could make him one of the world’s richest men.

“This is my country. Look, it’s beautiful and I fear somebody will disturb it,” he says, waving his arm across a view of rocky land surrounded by Kakadu National Park, where [...]

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Greening up your address book- are your good friends green?

By On July 26, 2007

There’s a new study buzzing around the net that shows having overweight friends more than doubles your likelihood of being a fattie yourself. Seth Godin says

The most important thing you can do is choose who you’re hanging out with. The second high-leverage thing is to put dynamics in place that reinforce [...]

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The Pope goes Green, starts a drum circle, and channels the “Voice of the Earth”

By On July 26, 2007

Pope Benedict reads Ecorazzi every morning, just bought a solar powered pontif’s hat, and thinks Victoria E is hawt. He also wants his flock to start caring for their home- or as we put it around the PS office- stop f*&$ing up the planet.

“We all see that today man can destroy [...]

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