There’s a lot going on every day in the green news.  We’ve decided to present a weekly segment offering green news of the week with some of the noteworthy green stories that we admired in the blogosphere from the past week.  This week, we range from reforestation to Leonardo DiCaprio to electric vehicles in New York to green living ideas for your kitchen at home.  If you see a headline that interests you, just click on it to read the full article.   

Mayor Bloomberg announces the addition of 70 new electric vehicles to the city’s fleet 

New York City is going greener as Mayor Bloomberg announces an important green initiative for city vehicles.  Many city agencies will drive one of the 70 new electric vehicles including:  the Department of Corrections, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Department of Sanitation, the New York City Fire Department and the New York City Police Department, among others.   

 

 To quote Leonardo DiCaprio “we all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.” Now the infamous actor/environmentalist is promoting sustainability while he’s first in line to get the new Fisker Karma Plugin Supercar.  It’s quite an upgrade from his modest Toyota Prius that he helped put on the eco-cool map, but it’s still an astounding electric vehicle and kudos to Leo for continuing to drive green.   

5 Successful Reforestation Projects 

This article highlights 5 great reforestation projects from around the globe.  Reforestation “is the restocking of existing forests and woodlands which have been depleted, an effect of deforestation. Reforestation can be used to improve the quality of human life by soaking up pollution and dust from the air, rebuild natural habitats and ecosystems, mitigate global warming since forests facilitate biosequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and harvest for resources, particularly timber.”   

Trashtivist: My garbage, in perspective 

This is part 5 of Chip Giller’s 5 part series over at grist.org where Giller was reliving his college days and promoting less waste.  “Back in college, I carried around all the garbage I produced for a week to demonstrate the wastefulness of the average student. It wasn’t a great way to meet women.”  Challenged to do the same thing many years later by his colleagues at Grist, Chip decided “Starting July 11, I’m going to carry every scrap of trash my family produces wherever I go. That includes me, my wife, our 5-year-old daughter and our 2-year-old son.”  You can read all 5 parts of his Trashtivist experience at grist.org.   

A Green Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen 

The folks at eco-officegals.com have come up with some easy ideas to help green your kitchen at home.  Their ideas are simple, easy to implement and consider other factors like waste reduction and conserving water and energy as much as possible.   

And that’s our short list of green news of this past week.  There are tons of worthy green news articles so it’s really hard to choose from.  We’ve love to highlight any green stories that our readers find remarkable so please provide suggestions in the comments below so we can include it next week.  Until then, happy green news reading. 

July 21, 2011