Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger

Some people live off the grid, eat local food, and have an energy footprint so minuscule that even the canniest hunter couldn’t track them down. But the rest of us buy from supermarkets, get our energy from at least in part from traditional sources like coal, and occasionally forget to turn off the lights when we leave the house. For those of us who are still living with one foot in the old energy world, here are a few helpful hints about what you should buy and what the consequences of shifting to “clean energy” sources like natural gas and nuclear energy are.

This innovation of the week highlights biogas as a cleaner and safer source of energy. Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet.

While Obama’s proposed budget freeze will curtail domestic and social spending here at home, wasteful foriegn spending can continue unchecked.

Danielle writes about PICS which protect cowpeas throughout the year, preventing contamination from oxygen and pests. Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet.

Weekly innovations can be found on the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet blog.