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We looked at four iced teas: New Leaf, Sweet Leaf, Guayaki & POM Wonderful to see how they taste and how they effect the environment. Check out our video review to see how they fared:

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I installed StumbleUpon a little while ago to help increase traffic to GreenDealsDaily (and it worked) - but I hadn’t used it for randomly finding good sites (its intended purpose).  Well I gave it a try recently and it’s actually a pretty fun time waster.  You should give it a try especially if you’re starting to get bored with your RSS feeds / bookmarks.

This pumpkin, which we didn’t get around to carving at Halloween, has been sitting out on our porch for the last couple of weeks. IT HAS GROWN A SCARY GOATEE MADE OF BUGS!!!

You’ve made many small changes in your life for the greater good right? You recycle and use CFLs, maybe you buy organic food or clothing - in short, you give a damn, but do your friends, family, co-workers and roomates? Chances are at least some of them don’t.

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Emily hates rap, especially Canadian rap - but I like it and she is wrong

Anyway, Abdominal is great and he raps about Toronto sometimes which makes me nostalgic.  Just about every track on Escape from the Pigeon Hole is super-catchy but not in an ear-worm kind of way.  My favorite tracks include: Breathe Later, T. Ode, Radio Friendly, Pedal Pusher, Big Track and Walk Left / Stand Right.

Click here for more tracks at CBC Radio 3.

I’m really more excited about this than I should be given that most people consider Alexa to be pretty irrelevant.  None the less, GreenDeals Daily ranked among the 89,589th most popular sites on the internet yesterday and I think that’s kinda neat.  Once you’re in the top 100,000 they track your rank on a little graph (but more importantly some advertising programs pay you, or allow you to join, based in part on your Alexa rank).  Want to help my little graph go up? (that sounds somewhat dirtier than I intended)  Add the Alexa Toolbar to your browser.

I just uploaded a whole lotta photos to my Flickr account, here are the highlights (click for a bigger version):

First up, my lovely bride working hard in the studio.

Here are some shots from the September Critical Mass (note the dude with the crazy dog platform on the back of his bike)

I took a bike ride on which I saw the Mississippi…

…and a cactus.

I made some okra with olive oil and Tony’s (universal southern seasoning) - it was really good cooked under the broiler for a few minutes. Emily disagreed.

Mysterious smoke cloud.

Emily atop the Baton Rouge levy sign (just like Hollywood!)

Baton Rouge has a weekly outdoor farmer’s market (year-round!)

This week I got some arugula, sweet potatoes, peppers and local satsumas!

Kittens!

The bridge across the Mississippi - grabbed this on a sunset bike ride along the levy.

Emily’s latest work, I call it the exploding kayak - not sure what she calls it.

Band practice at the local highschool (they take this stuff seriously here).

Emily at the White House.

I finally made it to the Angola Prison Rodeo but this is the only photograph I got, no cameras allowed. Unfortunately they were sold out so all I could do was look at the crafts for sale (made by inmates) and eat carnival food (I had a pig’s tail!). Very weird experience.

Satsumas growing in somone’s yard - it’s really neat to see stuff like lemons and bananas growing on our street.

Here’s my jack-o-lantern:

He blew his brains out (don’t read too much into this).

They were throwing out the lane dividers at the pool - I almost brought them home but I don’t know what I’d do with them.

Finally, this is the beer I bought at Wal-mart today. I couldn’t resist - it’s special edition hunting beer in bright orange cans so your drinking buddies don’t shoot you! So awesome - and did I mention it was just $10 for this two-four? God bless America.

If only more people knew how many ways there are to save money while reducing waste, energy use and pollution. Here are some of the best green bargains and deals for your home, work, transportation and food.

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Found this via StumbleUpon:

I just received an email from Patrick Gavin, President of ReviewMe, Text-Link-Ads and Auction Ads, inviting me to be part of the beta for their latest CPC product: Shopping Ads. Part of me wonders if this is in response to the war Google has begun to rage against paid links but I’m sure they’ve had this in the pipeline for some time. I’ve installed code at GreenDeals Daily and my first impressions are quite good. The way it works is very similar to Auction Ads where you define keywords which determine what products will be displayed on your site. I’m excited to see how well this type of advertising converts, apparently early testers have been earning around $0.25 per click. Here’s a sample unit with the words “organic; energy saving; environment” :