In the list below, the left side has links to the columns and the right side has links to further information relating to each particular column topic. The list is in reverse chronological order.

Green Living Column

• Festivus, an alternative holiday in response to the commercialization of Christmas.
• Housing Industry Can Take Lead in Green Movement and Economic Recovery
• Springs Preserve Holiday Tree Recycling Program

• Watch Dr. David Suzuki’s recent keynote speech for the (Canadian) National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE). (This talk is very good and was the inspiration for this column. Thanks to Mary Beth for the link!)
• On fishing down the food chain: SeaWeb and a brief audio report.
• On oceanic dead zones from: NASA, The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone, article in the San Francisco Chronicle.
• On species extintion from: CNN, Reuters, Huffington Post.
• On floating mid-ocean islands of plastic trash: American Chronicle, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, good video at PBS’ NewsHour, The Plastic Sea, One Man’s Junk is Another Man’s Cause.
• On Ocean Acidification: Science Daily, European Project on Ocean Acidification, Discover Magazine, NOAA, ABC Science (Australia), A Sea Change (watch the trailer for this coming documentary), The Darkening Sea by Elizabeth Kolbert (PDF).

• The Gottfried’s LEED Platinum home project.
• Eco-Craftsman blog – a chronicle of the journey to deep green.
• Planet Green’s video blog series on USGBC Founder David Gottfried’s LEED Home Renovation
• David Gottfried’s book, "Greed to Green"
• Want to green your own home? Check out the U.S. Green Building Council’s Green Home Guide.

• Recycling event at UNLV – flyer (PDF)
• Blind Center of Nevada – PC Recycling Program
• NevadaRecycles.gov – Nevada Division of Environmental Protection
• America Recycles Day
• Republic Services – Curside Recycling info
• National Recycling Coalition
• Earth 911 – Recycling
• EPA Personal Emissions Calculator – Including recycling benefits
• Evergreen Recycling – Good for the planet. Good for your business.

• World Changing – Change your Thinking.
• Watch Alex Steffen of World Changing speak about the creation of a sustainable society in the video below….

Learning to live ^lighter on the planet.