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Last login: 3 days agoSugardrop: sugardrop is a 30 year old single woman from San Francisco, California, USA.; Likes 61 pages, 10 videos • 9 fans; Member since Dec 06, 2006

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The Environment is What You Eat : Planetsave: May 2, 3:33pm 1 review cooking
http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/05/02/the-environment-is-what-you-eat/; Entering a grocery store for a socially and environmentally minded person can be quite a stressful and trying experience. Should you buy that organic, free-range, cage-free, grass-fed, non-GMO, natural, fair-trade beef? How do you know if those chickens really are free to roam in bucolic pastures? How often are the organic farms audited? How do you know if the apple from New Zealand produced less fossil fuels compared to the local one? When the seemingly more ethical products cost up to twice as much as conventional ones, we end up staring at the shelves in a daze with recycle symbols and cheery looking Peruvian coffee growers circling our heads.

The Most Sustainable Future Community in the US : Planetsave: Apr 28, 9:22pm 2 reviews environment, alternative-energy, san-francisco, sustainable-development
http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/04/28/the-most-sustainable-future-community-i...; The streets are going to be reoriented at an angle to maximize solar and minimize wind. It will include 6,000 units of high-density housing, without any single detached residences. Thirty percent of the housing will be affordable.

Ecocity World Summit : Planetsave: Apr 27, 8:56pm 1 review environment
http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/04/22/ecocity-world-summit/; This Earth Day Week, San Francisco is hosting the 7th Annual Ecocity World Summit. This conference brings together an "international community of courageous individuals who are addressing problems of the world's environment with thoughtful long-range solutions that are truly sustainable, ecologically healthy and socially just."

City is not the Problem, City is the Solution : Planetsave: Apr 27, 8:54pm 3 reviews environment, san-francisco, gavin-newsom, curitiba
http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/04/24/city-is-not-the-problem-city-is-the-sol...; At the Nob Hill Masonic Center Auditorium in San Francisco, the Ecocity World Summit hosted San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and former Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, now Governor of Paraná Jaime Lerner.

Fighting Climate Change in the Dark : Planetsave: Feb 26, 11:05am 1 review environment, climate-change, greenwashing
http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/02/26/fighting-climate-change-in-the-dark; There are the car companies bragging how their environmentally friendly cars are going to save the world. Have you seen the commercial where the little boy asks the father, "Why did you buy a hybrid daddy?" and the father says, "For your future." If the father really cared about the kid's future he would be riding a bike or taking transit.

Las Vegas Ripping Up Lawns to Save Water, But is it Enough? : Planetsave: Feb 20, 11:48am 1 review
http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/02/20/las-vegas-ripping-up-lawns-to-save-wate...; If Las Vegas does not further cut water usage, there is a 10 percent chance that Lake Mead will run dry in six years, and a 50 percent probability it will be completely gone by 2021, absent other changes. These figures are based on a recent study by two researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California

More Cities and Stores Banning Plastic Bags : Planetsave: Feb 16, 11:50am 3 reviews
http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/02/16/more-cities-and-stores-banning-plastic-...; On March 27th 2007, San Francisco became the first city in the US to ban plastic bags in major supermarkets and pharmacies. Only biodegradable plastic and recyclable paper are allowed. Whole Foods recently announced that by April of this year it would end the use of plastic bags in all of its 270 stores in the US, Canada and the UK.

Why I Bicycle to Work.â€¦In the Rain : Planetsave: Feb 11, 3:55pm 1 review health, bicycle, bike, portland
http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/02/11/why-i-bicycle-to-work%e2%80%a6in-the-rain/; Although I have access to a car and ample public transportation here in Portland, Oregon; every trip I take is by bicycle. Even if it is 40 degrees, raining and windy -- I prefer to bike. Why would I chose to be miserable biking in this uncomfortable weather when I can be driving in a warm car sitting on a soft seat listening to my favorite music? The truth is that I truly enjoy it.

Itâ€™s the Economy, Stupid! Not Entirely : Planetsave: Feb 3, 10:53pm 1 review environment, consumption, consumerism, green-economics
http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/02/04/it%e2%80%99s-the-economy-stupid-not-ent...; "We must restore confidence to the economy, to consumers and to the markets," declared The House Democratic Leadership on Friday.

Their solution? Tax rebates and relief, echoing George Bush and probably every other economic analyst. The Federal Reserve has been cutting interest rates for the past six months to achieve the same goal; to entice people to Buy! Buy! Buy!