http://gogreenpark.com Up to the minute Go Green News Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:55:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Filed under: Cars and Transportation GM wants to have the eagerly awaited Chevy Volt, a real-life electric car, buzzing around your neighborhood by 2012. The bad news? GM, along with Ford and Chrysler, are currently begging for a massive billion company-saving bailout from the U.S. government. With the future of GM looking shaky, there is [...]]]> http://gogreenpark.com/volts-future-questioned-as-bailout-talks-continue/ Filed under: News, Plants and Wildlife As the bizarre story involving the Saudi-owner oil tanker and the Somali pirates continues to unfold, the plot grows thicker. The Sirius Star, holding about 2 million barrels of oil, is now parked only 3 miles off the coast of Harardhere, a notorious pirate city. The pirates — well aware [...]]]> http://gogreenpark.com/update-hijacked-supertanker-held-for-ransom/ Filed under: Home, News Are you dissatisfied with your current job? When one thinks of “green jobs,” it almost seems synonymous with “non-profit” — a rewarding venture that doesn’t offer much in terms of salary. However, there are careers out there in the green market that can earn six figures for the right candidate Demand for environmental [...]]]> http://gogreenpark.com/green-jobs-that-wont-make-you-poor/ Filed under: Food, Activism PETA has decided to go after those of us still interested in cooking a Thanksgiving turkey with a rather disgusting version of the Cooking Mama video game. In the original game, available for a variety of platforms, you do a variety of actions that cause you to “cook.” In the PETA game, [...]]]> http://gogreenpark.com/peta-cooking-mama-parody-is-gross/ Filed under: Kids and Parenting Contrary to everything that many parents around the world have been told for years, it has been found that consuming peanuts in infancy appears to lessen, not increase, a child’s risk of developing a peanut allergy. This research comes from Gideon Lack at King’s College London. This finding goes against pediatric practices [...]]]> http://gogreenpark.com/consuming-peanuts-in-infancy-lessens-risk-of-allergy-says-new-study/ Filed under: Cars and Transportation, GreenFinance Sure, we knew that the economic downturn would make life a little less comfortable for the next couple of years, but who could have expected this? Only a few months ago, Mayor Bloomberg was talking about putting wind turbines on the Empire State Building. This month, NYC transit authorities are [...]]]> http://gogreenpark.com/budget-disaster-new-york-subway-to-scale-back-way-back/ Filed under: Gadgets and Tech, Home As video game consoles get more advanced, their power consumption increases. This evolution of entertainment has led to an estimated 16 billion kilowatt-hours of energy consumption a year from the more than 40 percent of homes in the United States that own at least one of these consoles. This is [...]]]> http://gogreenpark.com/video-game-consoles-waste-1-billion-in-energy-a-year/ Filed under: Local, Shopping Guide, Activism Vermont’s Burlington Free Press highlighted Holly Rae Taylor a.k.a. the “Compost Maven” this week in their paper. Taylor is, without a doubt, the most committed composter I have hear of. Not only does she bring home table scraps from eating out but she also saves her scraps while traveling and [...]]]> http://gogreenpark.com/holly-rae-taylor-and-her-nearly-waste-free-life/ Filed under: Kids and Parenting, Movies, TV and Books, Polit-eco, Activism, Plants and Wildlife Yesterday was the official DVD/Blu-ray release of Disney/Pixar’s acclaimed hit WALL-E. If you’ve seen the film then you already know that one of the major themes concerns the care of our planet and what will come from our society of want and [...]]]> http://gogreenpark.com/wall-e-and-target-are-for-the-trees/ Filed under: Celebrities, Activism, Plants and Wildlife Click on the image to see the full, NSFW and disturbingly bloody ad. Things are grim lately in the PETA offices. They have that grisly Cooking Mama parody to attack turkey eaters. Lindsay Lohan was assaulted with a flour bomb because she is a “Fur Hag”. And that was [...]]]> http://gogreenpark.com/peta-ad-goes-into-forbidden-territory/