Going Green? Learn from These Pros
There’s no shortage of news stories, blogs and online resources aimed at helping people go green, but sometimes the best way to learn new habits is to watch someone else in action.
With that in mind, let’s look at some of the recent eco-stars across the U.S. whom I’ve discovered in my daily wanderings across the Web:
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- Duncan Campbell, who’s gone without a refrigerator for three years now and relies on only a small chest freezer for some food storage (He was one of several people recently profiled in a New York Times article titled, “Dumping the Refrigerator for a Greener Planet”). Campbell relies mostly on easy-to-store foods like grains and beans, grows a lot of his own food in his backyard garden in Columbus, Ohio, and recently began canning some of the surplus for later use;
- Ohio farmer Gene Logsdon, whose 30-year-old book, “Small-Scale Grain Raising,” is being resurrected this spring by eco-publisher Chelsea Green. The publishing house describes Logsdon’s work as “the definitive book on how to grow, thresh, process, and use grains in the amounts that matter to a family”;
- Author Elizabeth Rogers, who recently unveiled a new Website — Shift Your Habit — that lets you know exactly how much money you can save by taking various go-green actions. One recent “Daily Shift” noted that the average household could save $70 a year (and cut waste by 40 pounds) by switching from paper napkins to reusable cloth napkins;
- Handy-guy Mike Turner of South Carolina, whose Website — Aerocivic — offers a step-by-step guide for super-charging your car’s fuel-efficiency. He oughta know how: at a cost of only $400, Turner modified his 1992 Honda Civic CX to bring his highway-speed mileage to a whopping 95 miles per gallon.
