A few days ago I was directed towards CrowdRise via twitter. I never heard of it but after checking it out it seemed like something I really wanted, no, needed, to be part of. It’s an online community with profiles of people trying to create awareness, get the word out and raise money for projects [...]

As promised before the weekend, Silent-Butterfly.com is now black, or at least mostly black. After learning that black (or dark) screens save energy, I figured the best I could do for my site is go dark. I did add a few splashes of colour, just because I don’t want it to go all grey, black [...]

If you think recycling is too hard or takes too much time, even after reading my previous post. Than this is something for you! This morning I found out about Blackle.com a search engine powered by Google custom search, thanks to a tweet from Sophia Bush. Basically it’s Google, only in black! And that’s where [...]

In this day and age everybody is in a rush. For most there is hardly any time to think about recycling their trash, let alone actually do it. But to be honest, recycling doesn’t have to be difficult or time consuming.  What it really is all about, is getting into the habit of doing it, [...]

One of the things I do to minimize my ecological footprint, besides recycling and separating my trash, is buying organic food. The first time I heard about organic food I figured it was going to be way more expensive than “ordinary” food and because of that not something I could afford. I did a  little [...]