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Some highlights from our MCall blog:

• We tossed in a smattering of green tech
• Had a great time at the LVBO meeting
• Introduced folks to some of the places on the green inter-tubes, and
• Droned on and on about the benefits of locally sold, fair trade coffee

In case you missed our most recent posts:

• Mary has another cycling-to-work update
• I bore you with more numbers, and
• We all scream for green ice cream!

Again, we welcome your comments at the MCall blog site or here!

I keep forgetting to cross-post at at least a link to the stories on our Morning Call blog site, but you can always check the RSS feed block to the right (and down a bit) for the latest entries if I continue to be absent-minded.

Recent posts:

• Should we use rubber mulch?
• Do we want a bike-friendly Lehigh Valley?
• Staples now offers computer/monitor recycling for 10 bucks

If there are questions you have for the "green family" or something you'd like to see covered, let us know here or (preferably) over at the mcall blog.

Just posted another entry over on our Morning Call blog space. Cool/sad RAZR statistic from it:

The [numbers show] that the phone+charger eats about 2 watts when charging and about 1 watt when charged but still plugged-in. The charger itself eats 0 watts when just plugged in and no phone connected. The Watts up? PRO meter is pretty sensitive, so this charger causes no measurable phantom load (which is a good thing!). However, leaving the phone "charging" all night, every night for a year will consume about 3.3 kWh (kilowatt-hours - you get charged by the kilowatt on your monthly bill). As of July of 2006, there were 50 million RAZRs out there in the wild, and definitely more than that now. That's 165,000,000 kWh costing $11,550,000.00 (at $0.07 cents/kWh -- if anyone from PPL is reading this and can help me decipher what the net cost-per-kWh is for our area from your tariff PDFs it would be most appreciated). According to a popular carbon calculator, that equates to 123,750 tons of CO2 or 371,250 trees.

Hopefully the full article is interesting and informative.

As part of our 6-week eco-adventure, Mary & I will be blogging for The Morning Call on their Going Green blog. I've added a block for it on the right and you can view an almost-partial feed here.

There should be a few cross-posts between the sites and I may add detail here that would not be easy or appropriate on The Morning Call's blog site (like code for generating the forthcoming power consumption charts).

Definitely provide input on how to help the environment during the normal course of a day, either here or at the mcall blog.

I'll post more later, but The Morning Call has our green family story online. Never thought I'd hear us described as:

...three generations of fun jam-packed into an old Victorian house in Lower Nazareth Township