As we mentioned in our previous episode, we re starting to reach out and try to engage groups in the community involved in green issues and activism. Rhett s become very passionate about his bike riding and using his bike as a commuter (he now frequently day-trips to Boca Raton and Miami in addition to riding in town), and so he decided to become more involved with Critical Mass, an unorganized coincidence of bicycle advocates. In this episode, Rhett also tries out Tri-Rail and MetroRail, two critical links in the South Florida mass transit system. As you ll see, their efficiency on the weekends isn t great part of the reason Rhett s finally just started cycling long distances. Interested in joining a Critical Mass ride? If you live in South Florida, you can join Rhett on rides with Miami Critical Mass and meet members of Emerge Miami. Check the link above for rides in other areas. Don t have one in your area? Why not start one? Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Quicktime (.mov) Tags: bike, bicycle, activism, critical mass, miami, green, greentime, green issues, green lifestyle, environmentalism

Whew! Life has thrown us a number of curve balls these last two months and it s been more difficult producing new posts. But, we re back and on some semblance of a schedule. Next time, we won t leave without at least warning everyone we promise! There have been a number of updates and additions during our hiatus, however, that we want to tell you about Our status bar is now a Twitter. If you d like to receive updates on show status, you can follow us. These updates can be followed with an RSS reader, posted to a LiveJournal, or sent via text message to your mobile phone. We ve started a Flickr group, and we d love it if you d join it and share some pictures of yourself with all the other Greentime lovers out there. We ve started a group in Second Life called Greentime SL . If you use the Second Life search system, click on the groups tab, and search for our name, you can find the group and join it. We re in the process of building the meeting place, but once we do, we ll update everyone with its location. So, aside from these things, we re working on trying to reduce the amount of stuff in our home. When we moved in together, we never really got rid of redundant possessions, and we also are carrying around a lot of the detritus from past hobbies, games we bought and never played, etc these things all add up and make clutter, making our home and life less efficient. So, we re finding ways to move these things on to new homes so our home can be better designed for our new, greener life. If you want hints on uncluttering your life, we suggest Unclutterer, a blog Rhett reads daily. Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: green, greentime, green lifestyle, environmentalism, flickr, second life, uncluttering

Whew! Life has thrown us a number of curve balls these last two months and it s been more difficult producing new posts. But, we re back and on some semblance of a schedule. Next time, we won t leave without at least warning everyone we promise! There have been a number of updates and additions during our hiatus, however, that we want to tell you about Our status bar is now a Twitter. If you d like to receive updates on show status, you can follow us. These updates can be followed with an RSS reader, posted to a LiveJournal, or sent via text message to your mobile phone. We ve started a Flickr group, and we d love it if you d join it and share some pictures of yourself with all the other Greentime lovers out there. We ve started a group in Second Life called Greentime SL . If you use the Second Life search system, click on the groups tab, and search for our name, you can find the group and join it. We re in the process of building the meeting place, but once we do, we ll update everyone with its location. So, aside from these things, we re working on trying to reduce the amount of stuff in our home. When we moved in together, we never really got rid of redundant possessions, and we also are carrying around a lot of the detritus from past hobbies, games we bought and never played, etc these things all add up and make clutter, making our home and life less efficient. So, we re finding ways to move these things on to new homes so our home can be better designed for our new, greener life. If you want hints on uncluttering your life, we suggest Unclutterer, a blog Rhett reads daily. Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: green, greentime, green lifestyle, environmentalism, flickr, second life, uncluttering

Since the container gardening doesn t seem to have a high yield, and since our local organic market has expensive produce and the nearest real farmer s market is in the next town over, we ve opted to become subscribers in community supported agriculture (CSA), a relatively new business model for farms that should keep us in locally produced, seasonal, organic produce for months. CSA can be very cost-effective and convenient, but many people don t feel comfortable with the idea of cooking whatever it is the farm is growing. So, we ve brought along Ilona, our friend, local foodie, and fellow CSA subscriber. Rhett and Ilona go to town dissecting the first shipment from Redland Organics and discussing ways to make quick, simple, satisfying meals without bending over backwards. Interested in trying out CSA for yourself? Just check out Local Harvest to see if there s a farm near you! Show credits: The music in the montages is Earthen Fire and Dreams Away by Zen Debris. Foley effects for the wine pouring came from Percy Duke, stjin, and luffy, all courtesy of the FreeSound Project Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Quicktime (.mov) Tags: green, greentime, green lifestyle, food, agriculture, cooking, community supported agriculture, organic

Since the container gardening doesn t seem to have a high yield, and since our local organic market has expensive produce and the nearest real farmer s market is in the next town over, we ve opted to become subscribers in community supported agriculture (CSA), a relatively new business model for farms that should keep us in locally produced, seasonal, organic produce for months. CSA can be very cost-effective and convenient, but many people don t feel comfortable with the idea of cooking whatever it is the farm is growing. So, we ve brought along Ilona, our friend, local foodie, and fellow CSA subscriber. Rhett and Ilona go to town dissecting the first shipment from Redland Organics and discussing ways to make quick, simple, satisfying meals without bending over backwards. Interested in trying out CSA for yourself? Just check out Local Harvest to see if there s a farm near you! Show credits: The music in the montages is Earthen Fire and Dreams Away by Zen Debris. Foley effects for the wine pouring came from Percy Duke, stjin, and luffy, all courtesy of the FreeSound Project Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Quicktime (.mov) Tags: green, greentime, green lifestyle, food, agriculture, cooking, community supported agriculture, organic

Every 20th episode of this project is dedicated to looking back and putting a hard measure on how well previous experiments have worked out. Often, when we put out a show, we have just tried something out for the first time. Many green ideas seem green at first, or seem like they re easy at first but later on you just find they don t work out for you. Sometimes, the hard things turn out to be easy, too. We each sit down separately and share our perceptions of these last eight months with the camera and pick our big winners and big losers. Our points where we agree and disagree might surprise you! If you d like to see how each of us scored every experiment, please check out the full scorecard on our site! Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Quicktime (.mov) Tags: greentime, green, green lifestyle, retrospective, meta

Every 20th episode of this project is dedicated to looking back and putting a hard measure on how well previous experiments have worked out. Often, when we put out a show, we have just tried something out for the first time. Many green ideas seem green at first, or seem like they re easy at first but later on you just find they don t work out for you. Sometimes, the hard things turn out to be easy, too. We each sit down separately and share our perceptions of these last eight months with the camera and pick our big winners and big losers. Our points where we agree and disagree might surprise you! If you d like to see how each of us scored every experiment, please check out the full scorecard on our site! Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Quicktime (.mov) Tags: greentime, green, green lifestyle, retrospective, meta

We re back from the impromptu hiatus causeed by all our friends deciding to get married at the same time. We d like to extend our fondest congratulations to Cat and James as well as to ChrisAnn and Mark. We ve got a lovely montage of wedding pictures for Cat and James (set to the music of their band, the musical voice of Greentime, Zen Debris), and we hope we can show you some of ChrisAnn and Mark when they get back from their honeymoon! Amy s in front of the camera this week, opening the viewer mailbag. Then she dives into our most recent project, reducing the water use in our shower. We ve replaced the hilariously surreal showerhead with a more practical one that offers two kinds of low-flow options as well as a pause setting. Ever heard of a navy shower ? Check out this episode and find out how to get in your daily bathing without wasting 20-50 gallons of water. Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Quicktime (.mov) Tags: green, green lifestyle, bath and shower, water, water conservation

We re back from the impromptu hiatus causeed by all our friends deciding to get married at the same time.  We d like to extend our fondest congratulations to Cat and James as well as to ChrisAnn and Mark.  We ve got a lovely montage of wedding pictures for Cat and James (set to the music of their band, the musical voice of Greentime, Zen Debris), and we hope we can show you some of ChrisAnn and Mark when they get back from their honeymoon! Amy s in front of the camera this week, opening the viewer mailbag.  Then she dives into our most recent project, reducing the water use in our shower.  We ve replaced the hilariously surreal showerhead with a more practical one that offers two kinds of low-flow options as well as a pause setting.  Ever heard of a navy shower ?  Check out this episode and find out how to get in your daily bathing without wasting 20-50 gallons of water. Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Quicktime (.mov) Tags: green, green lifestyle, bath and shower, water, water conservation

So, we re starting to make that plunge towards conserving our automobile use. As you may be aware from previous episodes, Amy is already a telecommuter, so this one falls mostly to Rhett. Just by taking a bike for his daily commute and changing his lifestyle around slightly (read: no going home for lunch), he s able to carve off a good 90 miles a week. That might not sound like much, but he really doesn t drive very much as it is. If we re not going on a road trip (which is rare), then that s probably at least a 50% reduction. Commuting and running errands with a bicycle is pretty easy. Just hop over to t or your local bike shop and get a nice, sturdy, used bike then replace the mountain bike tires with slicks designed for use on the roads. A couple of small and simple tools to go with it, and you ve got a vehicle that s mighty fun, healthy, and green to ride. Oh, and did we mention it s the most energy efficient mode of transport? Yes, even if you take a very pessimistic analysis, it is not only more efficient than virtually any other choice in ground transport, but shaping your lifestyle around a bike encourages conservation. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v) Tags: bike, bicycle, commute, bicycle commute, green, green lifestyle, new urbanism, travel