Just the Tips, Man
“Saving the environment is not a spectator sport, dude.” Tech and the environment isn’t a marriage that leaps immediately to mind, but Wendy Richardson doesn’t care if her obsession with the environment (as documented through her blog) seems incongruous with her work with Nerdy Books, a digital publishing company that produces a series of user-friendly software tips, tricks, and shortcuts. Enter Just the Tips, Man for Protecting the Environment, a tip-a-day manual for saving the Earth presented in the familiar Nerdy Books flip-book format. (You can also choose to purchase it as a CD or download.) Chekhov raises his water dish to the Nerds for making those baby steps to eco-friendly living both easy and palatable.
Get a free excerpt here.
I wish Wendy blogged more often so we get more gems like her 6-year-old son climbing onto her lap to tell her: “We’re so lucky to have a mom like you who cares about the earth and makes us not eat meat.”
Now that’s an endorsement if I ever heard one. From the mouths of babes, dude.
The Worsted Witch » The Deadly Chemicals in Cotton said,
April 23, 2007 at 1:10 pm
[...] Wendy Richardson needs to blog more often. How else would I have found the U.K.-based Environmental Justice Foundation’s 2007 report, The Deadly Chemicals in Cotton? It’s a 40-pager, which may require more dedication than you currently have, but here is a sampling of the salient points, as outlined in the report’s Executive Summary, which is very worth a read-through. Global consumption of cotton, by the by, has doubled in the past 30 years. Cotton is the world’s most important non-food agricultural commodity, yet it is responsible for the release of US$2 billion of chemical pesticides each year, within which at least US$819 million are considered toxic enough to be classified as hazardous by the World Health Organisation. Cotton accounts for 16% of global insecticide releases—more than any other single crop. Almost 1.0 kilogram of hazardous pesticides is applied for every hectare under cotton. [...]