Jen's Green Journal

My other blog, Planet on a Plate, is hosting this week's Carnival of the Green and it's at # 98!

This blog has hosted the carnival 3 times (#6,  #22, and #65) so I thought it was time to give my other blog a little attention.

I'll be hositing Carnival of the Green #65 on this blog next Monday. This will be my third time hosting -- and I love it! I hosted Carnival of the Green #6 and Carnival of the Green #33

Carnival of the Green is a weekly traveling blog carnival that features the best of the Green blogosphere: Sustainability, Fair Trade, Environmentally conscious living . . .

To find out how to participate in the Carnival of the Green, see the Carnival of the Green page at TreeHugger

I just found out that Al at City Hippy has been offered a fabulous new job and is going to be retiring the City Hippy blog.

City Hippy is a widely read green living blog from the U.K.

Al at City Hippy, along with Triple Pundit, founded the Carnival of the Green -- which will be taken over by Nick Aster of Treehugger.

I will also be sad to say goodbye to Al as we had teamed up for the Holiday Lights CFL campaign. I will continue the campaign along with the help of Penny at the eco-conscious/fair trade  goods company, TaraLuna, who will be giving out free CFLs with any purchase of $50 or more (you can also buy 75-watt equivelent CFLs on her site for $3 each -- a bargain over regular store prices).

Al, you and City Hippy will be missed. Best to you and your family.
Namaste,
Jen

Carnival of the Green #38 is visiting one of the most read green living blogs out there -- Treehugger. A post that caught my eye due to my connections with people who work on nuke waste issues was this post from debitage concerning the proposed nuke waste dump at Yucca Mountain.

I'm very honored to be featured in this week's blog love on TreeHugger for my post hosting the Carnival of the Green #33. TreeHugger is probably the most widely read environmental/green living blog in the blogiverse.

Carnival of the Green #32 is visiting The Savvy Vegetarian this week. This week An Incovenient Truth figures big. Also posts about environmental misanthropes and lots of green summer info like an eco-vacation guide and how to stay cool in a green kind of way.

I'm hosting next week's carnival. Check back here next Monday for the Carnival of the Green #33!

Coming to you from the Animal Broadcast Network, Carnival of the Green #29 takes on an Earth Wind Water Fire theme. The COTG just keeps getting bigger and better. #30 next week will be hosted by my friend Deanna of Dee's 'Dotes.

EarthEcho is the place for Carnival of the Green No. 27. In this week's carnival:

Dee's 'Dotes' organization of the Divine Strake blogswarm, how chemicals and pesticides are affecting our reproduction and our offspring, where to share a car, endagered species day, how to remove rust in an earth friendly way, USDA's industialization of organic, clean technology, shopping local, a green portfolio, and Whole Foods.

Carnival of the Green #24 is visiting the Evangelical Ecologist's blog.

The most disturbing post touts nuclear energy as the new "green" energy. I guess with these folks its "outta sight, outta mind" -- they don't live in a state that may end of having to store all this deadly waste for thousands and thousands of years -- it doesn't just disappear into thin air, folks. The post does come from the "Private Sector Development Blog" which probably explains a lot.

I guess its also been a few years since Chernobyl and Nine Mile Island, and we all know that after a few years the memory fades just enough so that history can repeat itself. The tendancy for the human race to not learn from our mistakes doesn't bode well for our species' survival. 

Exuberant Pantaphobia's the place for Carnival of the Green number 22. My "Good Green, Bad Green" series is featured in this carnival. My favorite post in this week's carnival comes from the Living Green in LA blog which gives us 10 ways to be green for free -- which is great advice for those of us greens who don't have the big bucks to buy organic cotton sheets or a hybrid car.

Carnival of the Green makes its stop this week at Greenthinkers. The most compelling post at this week's carnival is called "post peak eats" at the blog Powering Down which examines the major food production problems that we are likely to face as the oil supply gets smaller and more expensive. Looks like now would be a good time to focus on locally produced food and make it a priority.

Carnival of the Green #20 has pitched it's tents over at Greener Magazine. My favorite entry is from Triple Pundit, who asks, "Why is Popluation Growth Always Considered Good?"
One of the comments to the post really hits the nail on the head:

"There's no consistent way to "grow the GNP" each year without more people. But when's the last time you heard someone question the need for growing the GNP? They think it's an immutable law.

I've been remiss lately in linking to the weekly Carnival of the Green -- so much has been going on.

This week's Carnival of the Green  is hosted by baloghblog.

My favorite carnival entry this week comes from the GreenerMiami blog, which analyzed a week's worth of trash. Day 1,  Day 2, Day 3,  Day 4 and final results, which includes tips for reducing your trash.

Carnival of the Green #13 is visiting Eco Street this week.

This week's carnival includes posts on: making London sustainable, how fossil fuels play a part in our food production, energy options, trying to find a green dry cleaning service, and Bush not meaning what he said about reducing dependence on oil during the SOTU literally -- among many other great posts.

Carnival of the Green is visiting Urban Eco this week. My post regarding the proposed sprawl legislation, SB 170 by Al Mansell is a part of this week's carnival.

This week's Carnival of the Green is visiting Ideal Bite. This is probably the funniest Carnival of the Green to date.

This weeks topics include: power from poop, the benefits of a bit of population decline, the fate of the hedgehog in Britain, SNL and global warming, carbon-offset from the film Syriana, coffee giants, and fake diamonds.

Visit this week's Carnival of the Green hosted by Unplugged Living, who's very funny subtitle is "Helping you freeload off Mother Nature".

At this week's carnival: Whole Foods going wind, Sustainability NYC style, green and not so green, technology,  sustainable agriculture by going veggie, vegan clothing, GMOs, poison-free gardening with ladybirds, houseplants as fresh air filters, the ethics of profiting from war, the environmental destructiveness of gold mining, algae's possibilities in cleaning smokestacks, and controversial control burns.

My vote for the most intriguing tid bit this week:

A review of  "Slow Food: Botony of Desire" by Michael Pollan from Dirty Greek's blog

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Come one, come all to Carnival of the Green #9. This week's carnival is visiting Skye Creative, Musings of an Eco-Entrepreneur.

My favorite post at this week's carnival, comes from Ardent Eden, and discusses the problems with GMOs and gives some practical steps ordinary citizens can take.



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Carnival of the Green #8 is visiting Suhitanantula's blog this week.

My favorite post from this week's carnival comes from The Small Town Project blog. The post talks about developers forced to pay for smog. As someone who hates the sprawl that is the Wasatch Front and who is interested in good urban planning, I found the post very interesting.
 

The Carnival of the Green spends it's second week in Utah, this time at Dee's 'Dotes.

Those that write on issues of ecology, fair trade and sustainability contribute to the Carnival of the Green. To find out about posting or hosting see City Hippy or Triple Pundit.