The Future of Food

April 27, 2009

People ask me all the time why I waste money on organic foods, or go through all the effort of my restrictive diet to abstain from beef and avoid eating foods with MSG, corn syrup, GMO’s, RBGH, and other items the FDA claims are GRAS (generally regarded as safe). The main reason is simply that [...]

Read the full article →

CFLs- A Brilliant Idea

March 16, 2009

By now just about everyone knows about the new swirly looking CFLs (compact fluorescent light bulbs) and just how big an advancement they are in energy conservation. What people don’t know is that they need to be recycled properly to maximize the benefit they provide to the environment. The main reason for this is that [...]

Read the full article →

Organics To You

February 26, 2009

Recently we attended the Everything Green Oregon event at the Oregon Convention Center. There were a wide variety of businesses and organizations there promoting their business or cause. Some of the more interesting booths included water filtration products, electric car exhibit, and solar energy companies. Being foodies we were most interested in the CSAs (community [...]

Read the full article →

Grow Your Own

February 18, 2009

Agriculture is one of the most important developments in human history. About 10,000 years ago humans figured out how to obtain food from cultivated plants and herded livestock enabling us to put our roots down (so to speak). This incredible advancement in human history allowed humankind to make the leap from hunter-gatherers to civilized society. [...]

Read the full article →

Soda is so 80′s

February 8, 2009

Why does anyone really even drink soda anymore? It’s kind of like asking why does anyone still smoke? Back in the 60’s it was cool to smoke and everyone did it without really realizing the health hazards. They were blinded by all the cigarette toting TV commercials and TV shows that fully displayed the smoking [...]

Read the full article →

Bridge to Somewhere

January 24, 2009

Local government has proposed plans to replace an outdated bridge on Interstate 5 that connects Washington and Oregon over the Columbia River. The interesting thing about this proposal is that the plans include wind turbines on the bridge itself that would create enough energy to power the bridge and all its operations. The area where [...]

Read the full article →

Microwave Unsafe

January 23, 2009

Today I watched a coworker pull out a burrito wrapped in saran wrap from his lunch bag. He then proceeded to poke holes in it with a fork, sort of like you would do with a potato before you nuke it. Then he proceeded to microwave the burrito, still wrapped in the saran wrap! Blahyuk! [...]

Read the full article →

Welcome!

January 10, 2009

Welcome to greencropcircles.com! Our goal is to raise the general public’s (and our own) awareness for a multitude of subjects in the green universe. Some of these subjects include organic food and other products, alternative energy solutions, global warming, local sustainability, alternative medicines, recycling, pollution, animal habitat and species preservation, natural land and water conservation, [...]

Read the full article →

Next Entries →