I can’t help but see the plight of the Haitian people as they suffer. The food and supplies at the airport mound as high as their shallow mass graves and fiery burial hills. I see hundreds of able-bodied men and boys pressing on barricades – outreaching for help. I can't give money, but as I was on my knees tonight these ideas came to me.

1. Haitians-Helping-Haitians (HHH). The Haitian people are your best resource and most available supply chain. Let the people distribute the food and water instead of waiting for you to take it to them. Ask all those who are able to be “HHH” volunteers. This gives the people dignity in each other and their country.

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Seeing pain and anguish on the faces of so many survivors in Haiti after the 7.0 earthquake Tuesday, January 12, is a call for everyone, everywhere to help. Lookin' Green calls upon the green coummunity to take an active lead and join with others around the globe show our true color - red, for the life blood that flows in all of us. Help in any way you can:

Cash Contributions
Cash donations are the most efficient and effective way to help the relief effort in Haiti right now. They will allow humanitarian organizations that are “on the ground” in Haiti to purchase the exact type and quantity of items needed by those affected by this crisis. You can immediately donate to the following organizations:

Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org/ Contribute online to the Red Cross, or donate $10 to be charged to your cell phone bill by texting "HAITI" to "90999."

GO GREEN EXPO, the nation’s premier green business and sustainable lifestyle show known for its innovative and interactive programming, returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center on January 22-24, 2010 for the second year in a row as the first stop on a nationwide tour that also includes New York City, Philadelphia and Atlanta.  Following last year’s show that reached more than 10,000 attendees, Go Green Expo 2010 will focus on the next steps in environmental responsibility and the growing green revolution.

Appearances by Eco-Celebrities including Ed Begley Jr. & Mariel Hemingway, Organic Food and Spirit Tastings, a Green Pet Expo and First-Ever Green Career Fair

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Fuel cells technology holds the promise of providing high-efficiency power generation for distributed power and mobile applications. In vehicles, fuel cells powered by hydrogen produce only steam at their exhaust giving Southern California a hope for future generation to leave with clean air. It is also an ideal technology to provide transportation in so near future of depleted fossil fuels.

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As the discussion intensifies, from both sides of the political spectrum, and from polar opinion leaders like U.S Sen. John McCain (R) or Greenpeace co-founder, Patrick Moore, more and more nuclear energy is growing on more Americans. A June 2008 Zogby poll revealed: “Respondents were more likely to say they would support a nuclear power plant (43%), over an electric power plant which had its fuel source from natural gas (26%), coal (8%) or oil (1%).”

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Leading experts raise concerns about the dangers of Cell Phones, their link to Tumors and Cancer, and the probability that they could create a health epidemic among the rising numbers of teenagers and children using them.

“Cell phones are more dangerous than smoking and asbestos” – Dr. Vini Khurana, Respected Australian Neurosurgeon

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Water. Energy. Two limited resources that people use in an almost unlimited fashion gets easier to manage with tankless water heaters.

For nearly a century, water heater tanks have served both storage and heating. And while technology has simplified water heating to now tankless systems, market acceptance remains slower than the adoption of other advancements like electronics.

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Lovin’ Scoopful serves up rich and creamy, great tasting, low calorie churned ice cream with one-half the fat and one-third fewer calories than other premium blends. Now that’s music to the ears of ice cream addicts, like myself, who want to go out and enjoy a guilt-free creamy delight.

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Women and men alike go to extremes for a perfect hair-day, and apart from failing miserably most days, in the process we unintentionally, or not, harm our health and the environment.

“Many years ago, I developed contact dermatitis, an allergic reaction caused by synthetic and silicone hair products,” hair stylists and colorist, Alan Eschenburg told Lookin’ Green. “I thought, if I was having such bad reactions to these products, what about my clients?

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This season, stretch the wardrobe budget to cover your dwelling and keep it cozy. The electric or gas company always send a little pamphlet with advice on keeping both the occupants and the house warm towards the end of the year.

I get the message about insulating the house but have no idea how to go further than checking window seals and installing a rubber strip under the door. Now, an icy-hot wrap is available for my little humble abode, to help it to keep warm in the winter and stay cool in the summer.

“Virgin” in big bold letters on a T-shirt might be advocacy for sexual purity, but there is no shortage of passion in the life of a person wearing such a shirt. The finer print on the T-shirt from A Lot To Say reads: “Virgin plastic is what most shampoo and conditioner bottles are made from and they add to over 25% of waste in landfills. Not sexy.”

This story is not meant to be a “Turn On.” Contra wise viewers are encouraged to: “Turn on your lights with a timer. In one 12-hour day, we collectively could save $187 million in energy costs. That’s big buzz."

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An induction lamp relies on the fundamental principles of electromagnetic induction and gas discharge and create light without the need of filaments or electrodes. The  result is a lamp of unmatched long life lasting up to 100,000 hours or 20 to 25 years before they burn out, based on 12-hour daily usage.

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Space is not an issue with new trendy lean-against-the-wall gardens that let you grow anything in or out, up or down, anywhere.

Since there is hardly more landmass being made and we have all been reduced to square footage, the goal is to come up with new applications for using existing land.

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Consumers agonize over turning off electrical items and may even feel guilty if they come home to realize that a single light was burning while they were away for as little as four hours.

Incidentally, consumers are unconscious that from the day the television, the media player and their sundry peripherals were turned on, these systems have hardly ever been powered down, even though they are only used for less than 8 hours per day, on average.

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Your best contribution to the environment could be your own health, but in tough economic times, health and fitness are often first on the budget block. And still, everyone has fitness and healthy living as a major priority, but not so many us actually make that priority a reality.

In the 1965 when Joe Gold opened a modest fitness center in Venice Beach, California it wasn’t just a Hollywood sensation. His hope was to motivate people to stay committed to their health and fitness goals. More than 600 locations across the globe and 50 years later, Gold’s Gym still helps members realize their goals and find their inner strength.

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Techy advancements in security systems make it easier to protect personal property and those big-ticket gadgets and gizmos. You might even get rid of the power natzi too, “turn off this” “turn off that” and “turn off what’s it not.”

The value and options of these new age systems combine security, safety, and reduced energy usage. We are talking about more than the motion sensor porch lights – some security systems turn on just about any electronic system within range, and know when posts have been vacated for far too long will shut down those systems just as fast. Most systems also monitor carbon monoxide and tie into 911 for fire or medical emergencies.

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Desperately hoping to convalesce the near-death economy, the 111th United States Congress rang in on the high note of the new Barack Obama administration to quickly pass a $787 billion pay-as-you-go plan, known as the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009” – which in many respects is a modification of Bush’s October 2008 stimulus package.

Light poles short of a detailed energy plan, Congress allocated $113.5 billion from the emergency bill towards high-tech transportation systems, energy-efficiency programs, and expansion in renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, biofuels, clean coal, hydroelectric, nuclear, geothermal and natural gas.

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A mission to launch a land craft that runs on self-generated energy and that anybody could afford to drive seemed impossible until the Prius, Toyota’s iconic hybrid green car. Fifteen years after the Prius peeled out on the auto stage, and nine years after making the trip from Japan to hit the American shoreline, Toyota is still building cars that run on fossil fuels.