EcoMetro

I made it inside with more than 21,000 enthusiastic people in Key Arena this last Friday to hear Barack Obama speak. Three thousand people were left standing out in the cold as the arena was over capacity. Unexpectedly, Barack Obama came out to greet those eager 3,000 with a bullhorn and a 30-minute...

I recently went to the Trader Joe’s in the University District with my partner and noticed that our bill climbed to around $100. I decided to take a picture showing what we bought and ask readers to compare what $100 will get them at their local grocery store, food co-op, or nationwide supermarket. A...

I used to bank with Wells Fargo—one of the big corporate banks. After reading an article on credit unions in Co-op America’s Real Money newsletter some years ago and discovering that I already knew people who were long-time members of credit unions, I made the switch. Though it took some time for me...

Your standard plastic fork is manufactured from a petroleum-based material and is not compostable. Housing and Food Services at University of Washington (UW) here in Seattle switched to corn-based cutlery in their cafeterias at the beginning of the 2007 school year. When I first heard this, I had to...

Is marketing of what really is just green clutter and junk on the rise? Are we as green consumers being targeted and, more importantly, is it working? These are the questions that arose after I had the opportunity to review TLM International’s Magic Stapler (around $10 on Amazon.com) and Horizon Fuel...

Is marketing of what really is just green clutter and junk on the rise? Are we as green consumers being targeted and, more importantly, is it working? These are the questions that arose after I had the opportunity to review TLM International’s Magic Stapler (around $10 on Amazon.com) and Horizon Fuel...

Here is the first entry of my personal web-travel green ephemera collection series. Click on the article title above or "Read Post" below for your invitation inside family homes around the world to see how a week's worth of your food stacks up in comparison. If you're even the slightest...

Soon after I learned my application was accepted as a blogger for the Seattle ecometro.com site, I started subscribing to green enewsletters and daily green etips. I was hesitant at first—my inbox has enough traffic and I wasn’t sure I’d be able to keep up. But I proceeded and tried to indulge my inbox...

Seattle has introduced one successful sidewalk display of solar power this past year: the plastic card taking parking meter kiosks (ignoring for a moment that they are more profitable for the City at our expense and that they eliminated many bike parking spaces previously offered by the metal pole supported...

I remember early rechargeable flashlight models that required constant charge in an available outlet until the disaster hit the home or office. Talk about a constant waste of energy for a limited, temporary period of darkness. And then what you do during the disaster when this battery needs to be recharged...