Be the Greenspan of your community : The stimulus for this mill town turned artist’s colony arrived in the form of green bills bearing sketches of herons, turtles and trees. A few dozen local businesses banded together this spring to distribute the Plenty — a local currency intended to replace the dollar. Now 15,000 Plenties are in circulation here, used everywhere from the organic food co-op to the feed store to, starting this month, the Piggly Wiggly supermarket. Last popularized dur

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This question was posed to the Concierge blog on the New York Times site:I consider myself a fairly responsible type: I won’t be installing my air-conditioner this year, I recycle, I call my mom on Sundays. Still, I’m finding all the recent focus on locavores and sustainability and all that a bit much. These days, when I walk by the Park Slope Food Co-op, I want to buy the gas-guzzlingest S.U.V. on the planet and drive to a McDonald’s I could have walked to. I guess this is a long way of asking:

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It’s my birthday!! And check out the spread I got! OK it wasn’t for my birthday (it came last week) and it’s from the wonderful people at Wholesome Sweeteners . I had been reading about their Organic Zero product online and was very interested. Wholesome Sweeteners Organic Zero is the perfect sweetener for those living a healthy lifestyle. Produced from Organic Sugar Cane Juice, which is naturally fermented and crystallized to create Organic Erythritol. Erythritol is a naturally occurr

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In California, NBA basketball star Shaquille O’Neal has become an endorser and customer of the GreenHouse MicroFueler, a home-based system that converts organic waste into fuel. Shaq joked with reporters that he was changign his nickname from “Diesel” to “Big Eth,”. “I tried it, I liked it,” O’Neal told the Orange County Register. “I flew to Southern California to see it first-hand. It’s cost effective and it works. Hopefully, with my presence, people will look at [the fuel system] and they’ll

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by Dale Green Have you always dreamed of being self sufficient, being able to live off the grid and supply your own energy? If you’re like most of us, you’ve at least thought about it before. It once was that just about the only way to do this was to live in an area so remote that no existing electrical grid would reach. Now, the choice to live off the grid is something which is available to an increasing number of people, most concerned more with saving on their electric bill than with livin

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