Blue Alien Network | The Hive

      Mike Rowe

Well, this week Dirty Jobs is showing a Brown Before Green special (their 2nd) which highlights some of the dirty jobs that Rowe & Co. have visited that serve to help the environment. You get to see people make organic shampoo, recycle a barge, and turn roadkill into compost. But the best part of the show is Rowe’s skewering of mainstream celebrity environmentalism, which puts all things green and beautiful before the hard work, dirt, grime, and entrepreneurial motivation that will require us to get sustainable businesses and sustainable products out there. He focuses on the people who do the hard and dirty work, the farthest thing from fads or trends, and places them in the limelight.

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NatureMill - Compost Made Easy!

Our society recycles more and more each year.  This is a great achievement!  But unfortunately, our waste is still increasing due to rising personal consumption and overall population growth.

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Keeping up with green trends

Looking for a way to boost profits and save the planet at the same time? Change with the times! Today’s times are requiring more environmental awareness on the part of both businesses and consumers. Businesses who give consumers the environmentally-friendly options they are increasingly demanding are halfway there. Businesses that also make environmental changes in the way they are run - from transportation to office environment to customer communications - are finding even more positive results in their bottom lines as they eliminate wasteful spending.

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Evergreen Oil, Inc. is one of the largest waste oil collectors in California, and the only oil re-refining operation in the western United States. Evergreen is also a major provider of hazardous waste services, offering customers across the State a full range of environmental services to handle all of their waste management needs.

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Jasmin Malik Chua

Ah, the pitter patter of four-legged feet as they whip through your living room at overclocked speeds or uproot your prize gladiolas with manic fervor. But Snookiepuss and Mrs. Fluffypants are practically family, right? So why should they settle for anything less than top drawer when their health and wellbeing are at stake? Throw the planet a bone while you’re at it; we’ve got the goods on how to reduce your pets’ carbon paw prints—without making your wallet roll over and play dead.

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Will space solar power ever be practical?

Linda Shiner

We want to believe. The latest report on a 40-year-old concept—satellites that could gather energy from the sun and supply it to the world as electricity—makes the technology seem reachable and even, eventually, affordable.

Here’s the plan: Construct in Earth orbit, where the sun never sets, gigantic collectors (a 1979 proposal envisioned arrays six miles by three miles) that would beam solar energy to similarly huge receivers on Earth, which would convert it to electricity. In other words, hook the sun up to the grid.

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