Author Archives: Cynthia Shahan


About Cynthia Shahan

Mother, Organic Farmer, Classical Homeopath, Art Teacher, Creative Writer, Anthropologist, Natural Medicine Activist and Journalist, and mother of four unconditionally loving spirits, teachers, and environmentally conscious beings who have lit the way for me for decades.

In Google “Limelight” — Bike To Work Week, Google Bike Maps, & Taking Back Your Neighborhood

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May 17th is National (US) Bike to Work Day, set aside to honor the holistic living practice of bicycling for transportation purposes. For open-air-loving bicyclists, it is the best idea since apple pie. If most of us who can do so show up on the roads, routes, lanes, streets, trails all over the country (or, better yet, the world), the traffic of oil-fed transit will have to become more familiar with the bicyclist. The good … Read More

Greenpeace Ranks Cisco, Google In First (Tie) In Latest IT Sector Climate Leadership Ranking

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Greenpeace is a true blue — well, a true green — working for the betterment of society since its passionate and humane beginnings. Greenpeace International may be associated with nature, but it also impresses upon us the fact that the same businesses that brought us the cloud, internet-powered smart phones, and search engines will also, in fact, help to successfully address our planet’s deep troubles with climate change. As part of its tech agenda, Greenpeace … Read More

Electric Bikes, A Rising Force On Urban Transit Landscape — 38 Million Units Per Year By 2020, Navigant Reports

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Efforts to transition rapidly to renewable and clean energy solutions while satisfying growing urban mobility needs are key factors accelerating the sale and use of electric bicycles. Widely used in Asia Pacific and Europe, the electric bicycle is well-established in those areas as a sound and serviceable means of dealing with stepped up congestion due to urbanization. However, electric bike use in North America and Western Europe is a new trend, especially among the younger … Read More

SWITCH Unveils 3 New LED Products That Could Shake Up The Lighting World

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An illuminating press release from SWITCH® Lighting has announced that its first-of-a-kind SWITCH3-Way and SWITCH100 are ready to ship. Shipping is available starting next week, the beginning of May. These lights are so cool –  they are like small glass sculptures. However, they are quite utilitarian and low-energy, modern sources of beauty and light without strain on our environment. As such, the 100-watt (SWITCH100) and 3-way equivalents (SWITCH3-Way) come from an award-winning product line. These true … Read More

State Solar Jobs Map Unveiled — Maps Of 119,000 Solar Jobs, & Much More

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Toward the end of 2007, US citizens, the US labor force, experienced the troubling onset of an economic downturn. We’re still in a condition of recovery. Through the whole recovery, though, we have been pushed to consider and reconsider our value systems, our modus operandi in terms of economic sustainability — as well as the fact that economic sustainability genuinely cannot be singled out from ecological sustainability. It is time to leave those industries that … Read More

Sightings In Brooklyn Of NYC DOT Setting Up Bike Shop

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The original beginnings of what is becoming a comprehensive bike-sharing system, the biggest one in the United States, has had some sightings — the NYC DOT is setting up shop with docking stations throughout the city and passersby have been snapping pictures. Ultimately, what is being provided is increasing ease of bicycling. One resident happy to see the rising bike infrastructure in Brooklyn last weekend, Doug Gordon from Brooklyn Spoke, took in the scene, sharing … Read More

Innovative Peel-&-Stick Thin-Film Solar Cells Developed

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Getting tired of solar technology advancements? Me neither. The latest one we’ve got for you is about ever-popular peel-and-stick solar cells. Check out the news, reposted from Le Solar Love: Thanks to intelligence and academic investigation, solar may soon get more convenient and more easily accessible for application and use. Collaboration is important to achieving the massive generation of renewable energy that we need. And such collaboration has helped the development of peel-and-stick solar cells. … Read More

Net-Zero Energy Retail As Walgreens Strikes A Progressive Goal Leading With Example

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Walgreens is going to produce more energy than it uses at one of its Midwest stores, what it believes will be the first net-zero energy retail store. The store will use solar panels, wind turbines, and geothermal energy, according to the plans. Of course, it will also include energy efficient (like LEDs, green building materials, and “ultra-high-efficiency refrigeration”). Walgreens is a typical appearance of retail in each corner and strip mall of the US. Now, this … Read More

19-Year-Old Aerospace Student Boyan Slat Invents Cleanup System For Plastic Choking Our Oceans

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19-year-old Boyan Slat’s impassioned and educated opinion reminds us that youth, with its promising vital force, often taps into genius. If he is correct, Slat has designated some flair for environmental cleanup. He believes with his idea, developed for a student project in Aerospace Engineering, that it is possible the dreadful plastic that is choking the oceans (poisoning animals and human food chains) can thoroughly clean itself in 5 years – that is a lot less than … Read More