Eco-friendly Abode

How would you like to live in a small Tumbleweed House built with "green" building materials and powered by solar energy and propane?

Jay Shafer of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company can make you an eco-friendly 100 square feet home that can meet all your domestic needs. Sounds neat if you're living alone. Check out the houses he's built.

Jay Shafer has also appeared on the Oprah Show.

For Your Green Toes

I have no plans of buying a pair of shoes anytime soon, but this one shoe caught my attention:



It's a "green shoe" made by Simple Shoes, a company that uses sustainable materials in making shoes. This chamois shoe that I like costs $85 and is made of:

• Woven Jute rand
  
• Nubby Cotton upper
  
• Bamboo linings
  
• Wooden button
  
• Removable natural laytex pedbed with a cotton canvas cover
  
• Natural crepe rubber midsole

It also...

• Has an outsole that is made of an actual car tire
  
• Uses water based cements
  
• Has 100% post consumer paper pulp foot forms
  
• Contains latex
  
• Comes with a package with reduced stuffing

I can really say that I'm a goody-two-shoe if I wear this pair. Cool.

The Global Warming Survival Guide

How can we help slow global warming? Time magazine says there are 51 things we can do to help save the environment.

Some of the tips are very easy to do, especially if they are already being practised on your side of the earth. In my case, for instance, we hang our clothes to dry under the sun since we live in a tropical country.

A Book on Conservation Writing

I dropped by Lulu and found this book called Conservation Writing: Essays at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture. It offers writers what they need to know about ecology and conservation in order to effectively contribute to conservation projects. It also offers conservationists opportunities to improve their writing skills.

Would love to read this book someday. There's only one review available so far. If you've read this book, I'd love to know what you think of it.