Oh my god. Who would have thought something as benign as a humble biscuit would be making a covert contribution to global warming?

I used to have good underwear just for special occasions, but being the hedonist that I am, I decided life was too short for days spent in ugly undies. So now I wear nice underwear, matching sets, everyday. And you can too. For the eco-sexual EarthMum, there are beautiful pieces produced by sustainable practises.

Courtesy of Grist - for the next year, Government agencies in Utah are trialing a four-day work-week in an effort to cut energy consumption in buildings and fuel expenditure associated with employee commutes and to reduce associated carbon emissions.

I've been using my bokashi bin for about a year now, and although I love that you can chuck in your meat scraps, I'm just too lazy, *erhm*, busy to dig a hole and bury it. I end up chucking it in my compost bin, so I am back where I began, trying to make some decent Bunnings-esque compost. You might be able to tell from my tone that this modest goal eludes me still.

An inspiring story - the Pot-in-Pot cooler, a low-tech invention has improved the lives of people in poor Nigerian farming communities, particularly the womenfolk. But it's not just seen as an invention to benefit the third world's poor - westerners are considering its use as a climate-friendly alternative to conventional methods of food preservation

Yay! The transportation gods have heeded my prayer for a cheap, clean, and efficient automobile. Here's a video of a concept car that runs on water.

Based in Castlemaine, Victoria, Blade Electric Vehicles retrofit the Hyundai Getz to run on electric drive for sustainable urban driving. You plug it in to a standard household socket to recharge and it costs - wait for it - about 1.00 per 100km to run!!!

I'M torn, dear readers. My crappy old car is on its last legs. It spews forth a cloud of black soot when we take off, and if I want to walk my talk, I just don't think that offsetting it with Greenfleet cuts the mustard. I fear it is time for an upgrade, but this is the thing - I really, really don't want to get another car that runs on petrol.

Recently we introduced you to Kiva.org, is an amazing website which allows you to provide very small (no interest) loans to the world's poorest people so that they can start their own small businesses. Today we're looking at a group of Ugandan EarthMums who are looking for loan partners to expand their recycled clothing businesses!

Can you believe it? I didn't turn the bloody thing off!! My incinerated stock pot was sitting there, smokin' away for another twenty minutes!!! Now the living room stinks too, and I'll have to plant a tree to suck up all the carbon I put into the atmosphere! Gawd.