Enjoy a Green Christmas with the WPIX Yule Log

Time-lapsed video of wind turbine construction.

Japanese gardens

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Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, takes a pragmatic and very funny look at trying to build “the greenest house on the block,” without living in a home made of “twigs, pinecones and bird nests.” Ultimately Mr. Adams decided that to him “green” means  ” . . . living the life you want, with as much Earth-wise efficiency as your time and budget reasonably allow.” This practical and pragmatic approach to living green is far more appealing to the great majority of people who want …

We presented this story in October, but it is a fitting documentary for Earth Day. It tells the story of a man who convinced his family to go totally environmental.

The gold, silver and bronze medallions slung around winning athletes’ necks as they step on to the winners’ podium at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games could well be made from the guts of an old Belgian computer.

The manufacturer of medals for this Olympics is for the first time incorporating token amounts of recycled material into the medals. Medals historically have been made of freshly mines ores.

The innovation – though largely symbolic – was directed by an Olympic organising committee which had vowed to put on the greenest games ever, raising the bar for London in 2012.

Some think it’s funny; some think it’s the worst Super Bowl commercial of the bunch. It seems funnier the second time around.