Homeowners can now get a government loan to green up their homes, but be warned: this route isn’t for everyone. The Department of Energy recently launched the PowerSaver program, a program aimed at decreasing homeowner energy bills by reducing energy usage. Certain homeowners will be ...
Fatih Birol, Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency, has warned before that peak oil is almost upon us , and that time is not on our side for transitioning away from fossil fuel dependence. Now he's speaking out on the subject again, this time on Australia's ABC radio's Sc...
New cuteness rule: Anything that contains a smaller version of itself is adorable. Think about it: Kangaroos, koalas, Mandelbrot sets. (No? Adorable fractals? Nobody?) Ergo the McCar, from Chinese company Geely, is the cutest EV ever, because it's not just a sweet little full-electric...
Elusive Sawfish on the Razor Edge of Extinction Photo credit: Animal Planet Though easily identified by it's toothy nose, or rostrum, the sawfish is an elusive and poorly understood denizen of the world's tropical rivers. It's also critically endangered and under continued threat by p...
I never imagined myself cooking for kids. I spent most of my first three decades as a chef, not knowing or caring what kids ate, and not really wanting to feed them. In fact, as a restaurant chef, my worst nightmare was the host coming into the kitchen on a Saturday night, saying, “Ch...
We medicate our bodies three times a day with the foods we eat. The cleaner your diet, the better you feel. If you choose high quality whole foods you’re less likely to endure the ups and downs of a high sugar, high fat diet. But beyond choosing healthy foods, we can make marked chang...
The decision to move to more conventional packaging was not taken lightly. The customer comment review process took several years, and once the company determined that aluminium was out, the selection of plastic laminate and the factory switchover took about a year. Says Ellen Saksen,...
Mexico's rainforests depend on government conservation efforts (11/21/2006) Few people realize that Mexico is home to the northernmost extent of rainforests that once extended clear down to the Amazon Basin. Though diminished in extent to about 30 percent of their original range, thes...
A few weeks ago, I visited the office of a friend of mine, a partner at a top cleantech Silicon Valley law firm. He and I have shared a concern about the increasingly hostile, anti-clean energy propaganda from dirty energy-funded critics who are trying to position clean energy as expe...
Dan Esty, who along with Andrew Winston wrote the 2006 book "Green to Gold," a highly regarded treatise on corporate environmental strategy, has just published a sequel. This time, he’s partnered with P.J. Simmons to write "The Green to Gold Business Playbook: How to Implement Sustain...
When one complains about the environmental footprint of concrete, the main issue is usually the carbon footprint that comes from the production of cement. But cement is only about 15% of concrete; the rest is aggregate, the rock that the cement binds together. As this slide from The H...
An excessive utility bill is a capital asset, according to Steve Gossett Jr. Transcend Equity , founded by Gossett and his father, has come up with a novel technique for improving the energy efficiency of commercial real estate that in many ways eliminates the uncertainties and comple...
The big question is: Do public markets and institutional investors have the stomach for a low-revenue, non-profitable, capital intensive energy firm with a technology unproven at scale? And a tortoise problem? To recap: BrightSource (BSE) is a utility-scale solar thermal player with m...
For any Olympic Games, one of the biggest question marks is what will happen to the venues after the 17-day event is over. Recent hosts Beijing and Athens have struggled with the upkeep of stadiums and other facilities after the athletes, journalists, and tourists leave; Vancouver, wh...
Although cats have long, expressive tails, you wont catch them wagging them. Cats do more of what we call tail twitching, where just the tip of the tail moves. And it rarely means theyre feeling happy when they do it. By the Editors of MyPetHealthGuide.com Fast-twitching tip Cats wh...
and the kind of global warming skepticism that set the stage for it. In so doing, she got a long hard look at a different kinds of climate skeptics there are out there -- so she put together this handy little field guide that breaks down the differences between the flat-out deniers, t...
Egg Salad. Yes, this is one of the obvious ones. Add a little mayonnaise and onion or scallion, and you’ve got a quick lunch. Serve on whole grain bread with a nice slice of tomato to punch up the nutrition factor. Deviled Eggs. Another obvious one, but everyone loves deviled eggs, ri...
Since January, there have been more than a dozen proposals in Congress to limit enforcement of our clean-air rules, create special-interest loopholes, and attempt to reverse scientific findings. These attacks go by different names and target different aspects of the law, but they all ...
You know what foods are bad for you, and you know you should eat them in moderation to stay healthy. However, there are also many foods that are bad for the Earth's health. Check out these 12 foods that are hurting the environment and learn how you can eat a more planet-friendly diet.
Students march through the streets of Washington, DC, during Power Shift 2011. Photo credit: Heather Moyer/Sierra Club For anyone like me who joined the environmental movement after Earth Day 1990 (and is about to turn 40 this year!), I have a recommendation for energizing your activi...
Source: http://blog.resource-solutions.org The world may know China best for its massive consumption of coal and its plume of pollution over the Pacific Ocean. But today’s China has dramatically expanded its wind power capacity to rank as the world’s largest owner of installed wind ca...
A team led by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently published their findings on the use of viruses to help enhance solar panel efficiency in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The report states that the viruses performed detailed, molecular-level work to ...
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A LEGO world record was broken in Sao Paulo, Brazil this month when 6,000 people -- most of whom were kids -- got together to build the tallest LEGO tower the world has ever known. They pushed Chile's previous world record out of the top spot by building a 102 foot, 3 inch tower out o...
The aim of Yoga, of union, is to unite the thinking mind with its source in pure awareness. In modern terms, pure awareness means quantum space, the silent, empty void that is the womb of all matter and energy. Pure awareness exists in the gap between thoughts; it is the unchanging ...
The Department of Energy’s renewable energy loan guarantee program has actually gotten more funding in the wake of the GOP clean-energy-smothering budget, reports Kirsten Korosec at BNET . Not that the new GOP congress is actually secret best friends with clean energy, but rather, sim...
On Our Radar: Migrating Songbirds Vanish in Britain By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF British ornithologists record dramatic declines in the population of songbirds migrating from Africa. Since 1995, the number of turtle doves arriving in spring has dropped by 71 percent, while nightingales have...
Spreadsheet of the Day: China's Share of World Commodity Consumption EPA Says "Do What I Say, Not What I Do" And Moves To The Burbs Camping In Your Apartment: More Folding Tables That Take Up Less Space Why Concrete's Colossal Footprint is More Complicated Than You Think (and Why That...
Many Americans age 50 and over are not discussing the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) with their physicians, according to a recent survey from AARP and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). Its not that the older population doesn...
This week Procter & Gamble will announce the release of a new sugarcane plastic packaging for Pantene’s Nature Fusion line. The new plant-based plastic is set to debut in Western Europe this month, with a global rollout to come in 18-24 months. The bottles will be categorized as plast...
