Outdoors all this weekend!

So, in case you are living under a rock (like me... there are many different kinds of rocks, including sinus infections and for-sale condos), this Saturday is the Earth Day celebration at Centennial Park from 11-7. Make sure you check out the Greener Nashville Tent, where, along with Gardens of Babylon, they'll be giving away 1,000 free baby oak trees!



Many thanks to jeffmradio for tipping me off to the Billboard Green 10! I've really been digging KT Tunstall lately, and it's no surprise that Willie is up there!

Meanwhile, Rites of Spring is now swingin' over at Vandy, so head over there to catch some yummy tunes like Lady Antebellum, Feist & Old Crow Medicine Show. Between Rites and VU baseball vs. Auburn, I'm going to be at Vandy all weekend!

So much going on in the 'ville!

In case you missed it, last Sunday was Earth Hour, where you were supposed to turn out your lights for an hour, but apparently the folks down in Australia didn't take March Madness into consideration when choosing a Sunday. Sadly, we did not participate due to the pressing need to watch the Elite Eight games.

Down in Williamson County, the kids at Hillsboro elementary/middle are participating in the Free the Children Water Project. The thought of all the bottles of coke and PowerAde that are not being trashed warms the cockles of me 'eart it does... but they're still drinking water out of bottles:

According to the scorecard, students can save up to $1.50 per glass by drinking water rather than milk, soda or juice and up to $1 per bottle on sports drinks. Every time they drink a glass or bottle of water, they put that savings into a cup. At the end of the two weeks, the money will be collected. (emphasis mine)

I don't know anything about the Free the Children thing, but the project sounds like a good idea to me, at least to raise awareness... but I wish they were thinking about the bottled water part of it as well (see Think Outside the Bottle for why)

In other news, there's finally an answer to the question of what will be done with the old Wild Oats building... a Trader Joe's is moving in! I think I've talked before about how I miss the old Wild Oats - I liked how small and homey it felt compared to the new Whole Foods. Not to say I don't like the WF, but I miss the way things were. I'm excited to see what a Trader Joe's is like, finally, and maybe I'll be going there instead of WF soon.

Also, in case you haven't checked out the Greener Nashville site or you don't get their eblasts, there is a big Green Business expo going on over at Lipscomb today.

That's it for this week, folks! Stay dry and warm, and let me know if you want to buy a condo!

Sincere apologies for the 3-week hiatus!

A lot has gone on in my greening little world in the past three weeks, chickadees!

First, Vanderbilt Homecoming on Oct. 13, wherein we suffered a devastating loss to UGA (yes, Vandy did lose, but there are many of us in Commodore Nation who are loathe to say that UGA won...). The loss, I am sad to say, depressed me for longer than just the weekend.

BUT - I was lifted from my depths of despair by GreenerNashville.org.
I'm entering into a partnership with them! This blog will be moving to their site eventually (I'm not sure about the timeframe, but I will certainly keep y'all updated).

This is so incredibly exciting, I can barely contain myself.
See, way-back-when (ha. ha. 7 weeks ago... can you see the computer screen shimmy like a bad Saved-By-The-Bell flashback?), when I said

When I started looking for resources to help me, I didn't find much. Either I'm not looking in the right places or there's just nothing there... but I hope that this blog will ultimately provide a resource for anyone wishing to get a little greener here in Music City.

I hadn't found GreenerNashville.org! So when they contacted me, you can imagine how thrilled I was. People who were already set up to do what I had hoped to do with livegreennashville.com! And - despite my tendency to go very lizard-brainy on someone who beats me to a punch - I wasn't at all jealous. Here's the thing - GreenerNashville and I were made for each other. I hadn't found them in my googling because they don't have much text content, so their SIO was low and I never dug deep enough to find them. Now, hopefully, my rambling little writings can help them - and being over there, more readers will find me. What a grand way to feed my own ego while being a part of something utterly cool!

I feel hip! I feel groovy! And I am exceptionally excited to embark upon a real writing gig once again.

So, my charge to you, my few-and-faithful readers - tell people about GreenerNashville.org. In a very perfect world, I will be popular enough to garner some advertising dollars so that I can.... shhhhhhh... afford to be a writer.

Anyway, that's the long and short of why I was gone for so long. I was talking with Moses and Anthony over at GreenerNashville, and I was plotting the next year of this blog. I suddenly have so much to share with y'all, I don't know what thread of thought to pick up first. I'm going to try to lay a groundwork of ideas to start from so that I'm not throwing too much at y'all at once - check out my first post about the Tragedy of the Commons, and my previous post about Economies of Scope vs. Economies of Scale. They are, admittedly, some heavy, very "macro" ideas, but I wanted to throw them out there so that I can build off of them from here. I feel like, right now, my three very philosophical cuds to chew are the latter two, as well as what I'll be writing about in my next post - Stockholders vs. Stakeholders and why I'm excited about the idea of a B-Corporation.

So, I'll be back this Friday, October 26. I can't wait!