EcoTuesday is a forum to network, collaborate, and engage with environmental and socially responsible business leaders.

EcoTuesday’s structure includes an interactive dialogue and features a visionary speaker from the sustainable business world. Additionally, everyone in the room has the opportunity to introduce themselves - which means that everyone else has the opportunity to learn more about what they’re interested in.

EcoTuesday attracts a diverse group of sustainable business leaders involved in a wide variety of interests and fields. EcoTuesday is held on the 4th Tuesday of each month, with special events occasionally taking place on other Tuesdays. Check out a meeting in your area or create one!

In the holiday rush? Save money, time and extra effort by refusing to buy wrapping paper. Go through your t-shirts, clothes, scarfs and other fabric. Wrap your presents with an eco-friendly attitude. If you would like a bow, just simply use cut a 1″ strip from the fabric and wrap it around! WaLA! Eco-friendly is easy if you follow this simple plan.

Damunhur - an extraordinary community in Italy is starting to get more publicity — How many more eco-spiritual communities are underneath us? In weeks ahead, I’ll be interviewing several people who are founding eco-academies and in the process of buying land. Interested in participating? Send email to meredith at personallifemedia.com

Next week you’ll meet Heather Gorringe, founder of Wiggly Wigglers, an ecogardening company with a £2.5m turnover who has produced weekly podcasts gardening and farming how-to podcasts from her 14 person Lower Blakemere Farm since 2005.

Heather brings the old “how-to’s” of the simple farm life to us by discussing the spiritual practice of composting and the benefits that social media brings to farmers. Think “Sharper Image catalogs” and Amish Farming mixed with an Apple Store Expert.

Get ready for Bokashi Buckets, an urban answer to composting, the environmental impact of sending flowers and how this UK Digital Farm and Catalog Garden Company lives with their hands in the soil as well as on the keyboard. Thanks again for listening to “Living Green” — our new url: www.livinggreenshow.com - Tell Your Friends about it!

If you’re reading this blog then the 11th hour film is a must see for you.  The film is a who’s who in the movement as well as filled with facts that you will be happy you heard while you’re chatting up Living Green at your next social event.  You’ll even see some of the guests from Living Green in the movie, Paul Staments and more!  Bottom line, not sure how much longer the film will be out - so go see it this week!

General Motors’ popular On-Star service that, among other things, allows an operator to unlock your car remotely in response to a phone call. The service uses a combination of sophisticated cell phone and satellite technology, along with human operators, to work its magic. An On-Star operator can unlock your car from miles away because the On-Star system allows him or her to locate the car and access its internal computer. Because of its sophistication, the system is relatively pricey, with the equipment being installed mostly on higher-end GM vehicles and the service requiring an annual subscription fee.

Pentagon Studies Human Microchip Implants

The Defense Department’s plans to study implanting microchips in soldiers is already sparking concerns about privacy issues.

The chip would relay vital statistics about the patient such as lactate, glucose and oxygen levels in the blood. Researchers believe the technology would also be useful in other government programs such as measuring astronaut data, as well as civilian first-responder uses, according to a news release from Clemson University.

Clemson researchers believe the program is five years away from human testing. The program will include testing on a new gel developed by Clemson scientists that aids in preventing the chip from being rejected by the human body.

This is worth watching the video just so you know what is on the rise.

Predication:  Wi-Max (internet anywhere, anytime) plus RFID plus behavioral targeting technologies in advertising —-PLUS you and me….PLUS ecology.  I see a world of hope…what do you see?  Remember, education is the key. Be prepared.

The RFID Guardian is a mobile battery-powered device that offers personal RFID security and privacy management for people. The RFID Guardian monitors and regulates RFID usage, on the behalf of consumers.

The RFID Guardian is meant for personal use; it manages the RFID tags within physical proximity of a person (as opposed to managing RFID tags owned by the person, that are left at home). The RFID Guardian is portable. It should be PDA-sized, or better yet, could be integrated into a handheld computer or cellphone. The RFID Guardian is also battery powered. The RFID Guardian also performs 2-way RFID communications. It acts like an RFID reader, querying tags and decoding the tag responses, and it can also emulate an RFID tag, allowing it to perform direct in-band communications with other RFID readers.

The heart of the RFID Guardian is that it integrates four previously separate security properties into a single device:

• Key management
• Access control
• Authentication

RFID Guardian Demonstration Video

Need more?  academic papers available.

Ok..RFID….it’s time to start talking about what is really going on here. What do you know? What have you researched?  There is a quiet, yet alive movement around RFID chips being planted in people.  Crazy, not me.  Here’s a link to an Good Morning America from last year — an interview with a couple who has a New “Connection” — the RFID chipping system.

In my next episode we’ll talk to the hosts of “American the Green” and briefly talk about RFID chips.  Curious? Start doing your research.  My prediction: The conversation at burning man this year brings RFID even more into public awareness.  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, start getting educated now.

As people start to rely on RFID technology, it will become easy to infer information about their behavior and personal tastes, by observing their use of the technology. To make matters worse, RFID transponders are also too computationally limited to support traditional security and privacy enhancing technologies. This lack of information regulation between RFID tags and RFID readers may lead to undesirable situations. One such situation is unauthorized data collection, where attackers gather illicit information by either actively issuing queries to tags or passively eavesdropping on existing tag-reader communications.

Other attacks include the unwanted location tracking of people and objects (by correlating RFID tag “sightings” from different RFID readers), and RFID tag traffic analysis (e.g. terrorist operatives could build a landmine that explodes upon detecting the presence of any RFID tag).