Plastic has been making lots of news recently. Have you noticed?

The city of San Francisco just passed a ban on plastic bags (photo courtesy of Steve Rhodes on flickr).

MetaEfficient.com just reported that major furniture retailer Ikea announced they will charge 5 cents per "disposable" plastic bag.

But while that's all fine and good, do you know why plastic bags are so bad for the environment?

Who knew that changing your site or blog's color palette could make a HUGE environmental impact?

I'm constantly learning how incredibly easy it can be to live green. Changing your blog or web site's color palette is definitely one simple and easy way to go green.

Ever wonder what other blogs, sites, and information about living green is available on the web? EnergyPlanet.info is THE web directory for such things.

I'm pleased to say that The Fun Times Guide to Living Green has just been listed by this new environmental resource.

Can you go an entire 24 hours without your computer?

53,792 (current count at the time of this post) worldwide have already said they can. 8,519 say they can't...hey, at least they're honest.

What is this? It's World Shutdown Day, and it's tomorrow, March 24th, 2007.

Can you imagine what powerful effects this will have? And no, I don't just mean environmentally...

This just in: the 10 most green companies in the world, from CNN Money.

It's not surprising who is number one, but it is surprising who else is on the list!! Personally, I actually find some of them hard to believe.

NBC's Today Show seems to feature at least one "green" story every day...on the days I actually get to watch it, that is.

This morning, they highlighted some handy (and trendy) green gadgets that satisfy both the eye and the environment.

With this coming Wednesday being the first day of Spring, everywhere you look people are calling in sick with a case of "spring fever". What does this also mean? YARD WORK!

Before you run out to the garage and fire up that mower, please allow me to share some information I just learned with you.

"A typical gas powered lawnmower produces as much pollution in 7 hours of operation as a modern car does in a 100,000 miles of driving.", says ThirdDirection.com