If you’re like me and you get a little bit of macabre pleasure from things like picking at scabs or biting at hangnails, you are probably similarly amorous of those little cans of compressed air.  There’s something supremely satisfying about using them to clean your keyboards –waking sleeping dustbunnies with a surprise burst, sending bits of cracker and lint flying at incalculable speeds.  Good times, good times.
BUT, it’s not so much with the eco-friendly. Nor are many of the commercially-available computer cleaning supplies commonly available.  So how can you clean …

There are so many wonderful, free WordPress templates out there that it can actually be overwhelming when you know precisely what you’re looking for. Sure, hours of mind-numbing google surfing can be fun, but we figured that you might appreciate a heads up on some eco-specific themes available out there on the web. We gathered up a few that we like to get you started.
Remember, templates are customizable. If you like the bones of a template, but not the graphics, we can always help you adjust it to …

For those of us in the north, Summer has arrived – and with it comes the annual dilemma; How do we stay cool without wasting energy?
Of course, the most enjoyable way to stay cool would be to spend every summer afternoon lazing about in a river fed by snow melt that just happens to flow through our back yard — and for those of you who have this luxury, please email me your address and ready your guest room — but for the rest of us, with day jobs and …

Taproot Green Web Hosting is the proud Internet home of the American Center for Sustainability — a Portland-area grassroots organization who has, thus far, distributed over 65,000 plants, free of charge, to local farms, gardeners and non-profit organizations in Oregon.
ACS’s ongoing mission is to faithfully steward their 120 acre farm (Rain Fire Ranch) in Sherman County, Oregon.  As an introduction to Oregon’s sustainability community in 2007, ACS sowed 15,000 seeds and distributed the starts to local gardeners.
In 2008, ACS raised the bar to 50,000 and distributed those free of charge …