Greentime
About this original series
Rhett Aultman and Amy Hale are two urbane professionals with a passion for sustainable living, carbon neutrality, and plotting a course to help bring American lifestyles back in touch with what the planet can support. Greentime is the video blog charting their course to sustainability. Join in as these two South Florida apartment dwellers do what they can to put their lives on a "sustainability diet", review the plethora of ideas on how to reach sustainability, and in general try to make "green" a more common part of their lives. Will the result be a convenient truth or an inconvenient mess? Only time will tell.
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# Episodes
24 episodes -
Rating
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Episodes of Greentime
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Episode #23 - Critical Mass
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, tw...
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Release date
Mar 21, 2008
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Runtime
10:45
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Episode #22 - Where We've Been, Building Communi...
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...
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Release date
Feb 2, 2008
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Runtime
15:36
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Episode #21 - Community Supported Agriculture
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 whatev...
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Release date
Dec 2, 2007
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Runtime
18:51
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Episode #20 - Experiment Scores and Retrospectiv...
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...
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Release date
Nov 24, 2007
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Runtime
15:01
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Episode #19 - In the Navy...Shower
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 viewe...
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Release date
Nov 11, 2007
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Runtime
08:37
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Greentime Episode #18 - Bi...cycle! Bi...cycle!
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 ...
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Release date
Oct 23, 2007
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Runtime
12:56
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Episode #17 - Reusing Greywater
Rhett's in the kitchen this week showing off some simple ways that we reuse water in the home. Greywater, or the water coming out of (non-kitchen) sink drains, washing machine drains, and shower drains, is ripe for reuse and constitutes 50-80% of household waste water. Just through the simple application of "bucket and spout", it's possible to water significant portions of your garden or even flush your toilets.The simple methods shown here are motivational examples and they're only the tip of...
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Release date
Oct 8, 2007
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Runtime
08:58
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Episode #16 - Junking Junk Mail
Thanks for the patience while we got this episode out! We've been at Dragon*Con doing panels about video podcasting, we've been sick, Rhett's had to go out of town to be at his research lab...life in general has gotten in the way.The new Greentime logo is out now. As we said, we won't be making merchandise of our own, but we encourage you to get the logo and make your own. (png format) (svg format) Anyway, we're now back and greening our lives once again! Rhett goes off to the mailbox and thro...
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Release date
Sep 18, 2007
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Runtime
09:26
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Greentime Episode #15 - CFLs
A lightbulb "suddenly burns out" and Rhett springs into green action, replacing the lightbulbs in our front room with CFLs. These things are great...they put out a beautiful white light and use 25-33% of the electricity of incandescent lights. Granted, they have mercury in them, but it's not hard to work around that. They're cheaper than LED lights and they really sip the electricity for what they do.Some important links:Did you know consumers prefer CFL light? Really. Check out this Popular M...
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Release date
Aug 20, 2007
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Runtime
08:41
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Hangin' Out
We'd like to welcome everyone who's coming to see us for the first time thanks to our redistribution at greenerMIAMI. We're so proud to see our first site affiliation.Hungry to shrink our electricity bills this summer, we go after our monster appliance sucking 1800-5000W of power. That's right...the clothes dryer. We look into the inexpensive and surprisingly not-inconvenient option of letting the miserable heat of Florida's summers do the work for us by drying on racks. See how this is going ...
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Release date
Aug 7, 2007
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Runtime
07:30
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