Good post, Elly. I commute to work on my bike as often as possible, and I ride the bus when the weather does not permit. I ride a Dahon Boardwalk, so it doesn't handle the snow and ice of Cleveland winters all that well. Comparing my experiences biking and taking the bus to work, I've...
If you're both a voracious reader and an obsessive social networker, there's much to like in Goodreads' service. Nearly every published work of note has a passionate discussion thread surrounding it, populated by a spirited and collegial user base. But the ultimate value of a social n...
2006 - median household income: $50,233.00 2005 - median personal income for all individuals over 18: $25,149 2008 - national average number of cars per household is 2.28 cars - http://www.autospies.com/news/Study-Finds-Americans-Own-2-28-Vehicles-Per-Household-26437/ 2007 DOT study -...
General support for tougher environmental protection remains strong as evidenced by the polling numbers cited at the top. A related question found 53% of Americans believe “Stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost” compared to 39% says “Stricter environmental law...
Germany’s Unlikely Champion Of a Radical Green Energy Path The disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan convinced German Chancellor Angela Merkel that nuclear power would never again be a viable option for her country. Now Merkel has embarked on the world’s most ambitious plan to powe...
Demonstrate judgment when requesting a link to someone or accepting someone’s request. Ask yourself: Would I feel comfortable contacting this individual on behalf of another friend or introducing him or her to my mother? Fix your privacy settings to keep the wrong people from being ab...
LEAF participants enjoy an afternoon at the beach after a morning of work at the Conservancy's Cape May Migratory Bird Refuge in the Delaware Bayshores region. Photo: Erika Nortemann/TNC Cross-posted from Cool Green Science . Want your kids to become ecologically conscious as adults? ...
Prius hybrid models debuting in 2014 will come with plug-in capabilities as a standard feature. Around 2015, Toyota aims to lift global hybrid sales to around 1 million units a year, bringing the total number traveling the world's roadways to 5 million. Since some 70% are expected to ...
Steampunk enthusiasts rejoice: The skies may soon be full of airships. Dirigibles are the low-carbon way of shipping goods long distances, according to a recent article in Scientific American. No word on whether it's greener to wear aviator goggles, petticoats, and button boots while ...
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) Photo: Thomas Le Ngo What is a sensible political reaction to rising gas prices? Standing around shouting "Drill, baby, drill"? Or offering material support to commuters who increasingly opt for public transportation or biking to work? Rep. Earl Blumenaue...
Not every fire is a disaster. The plumes of smoke billowing into the sky represent the greatest danger the Honey Prairie Fire posed on May 8, 2011, when the Landsat-7 satellite captured this image. The fire was burning primarily scrub and brush in the Okefenokee Swamp in southern Geor...
As she quietly crouched down, trying to make sense of what she was seeing, Jill felt someone touch her shoulder. She turned to see not a man, but a bear, reaching through the bars of her cage in utter desperation. Jill wrapped her hands around the paw and poured out waves of sympathy,...
From the Serengeti to Lake Natron: is the Tanzanian government aiming to destroy its wildlife and lands? (04/14/2011) What's happening in Tanzania? This is a question making the rounds in conservation and environmental circles. Why is a nation that has so much invested in its wild lan...
Of course, the fact that these scientists’ livelihoods depend to one degree or another on a very rich oil industry with an extremely large vested interested in the outcome of the climate change “debate,” or more precisely in perpetuating the idea that there is in fact still a debate o...
that cleans both itself and the nearby air. The secret to this feat is titanium dioxide, the same compound that allows sunscreen to block the sun. In this application, when the sun hits a coat of titanium dioxide, the compound begins spewing electrons. According to Alcoa, those electr...
Oil sands pollution in Canada worse than industry and government claim (12/07/2009) Canada's tar sands have been internationally criticized as one of the world's largest industrial sources of greenhouse gases, but the energy-intensive extraction of oil also has a less-noted impact on ...
Live in New York? Want to get your eco-fashionista on? Then you’re in luck, because Stella McCartney recently launched a shop-in-shop at the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store. Over the weekend there was a party to help launch the store, and it was nothing if not animal friendly. Co-hos...
Let's turn NIMBYs into YIMBYs. Photo: Eddie Codel This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States , a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance's New Rules Project . Last month, Grist's Jess Zimmerman noted sarcastically that "Money is a miracle cure for 'wind turb...
It’s a lard-filled, bug-juice-coated jungle out there. Potato chips, peanuts, birthday cake, beer and more can be packed with unexpected animal products like fish gelatin, beef fat, bird feathers and insect innards. Just because a product sounds like it should be vegetarian or vegan d...
But there are clearly some massive hurdles between that goal -- for instance, despite the fact that an investment of that size would only cost around 1% of global GDP annually, who's going to come forward with that cash? Right now, global clean tech investment is a mere fraction of th...
I think, by now, the picture is pretty clear – Amazon is reluctant to disclose any sort of information when it comes to its own environmental impacts. Is it because they don’t want to reveal this data or just never bothered to collect and calculate it? I don’t know the answer, but I b...
Bill Gates, speaking his mind. Photo: Thomas Hawk Join Bill Gates for a fireside chat (sans fire) at the annual fundraising breakfast put on by the Northwest-based nonprofit Climate Solutions . Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will jo...
While green homes often sport all manner of technical solutions to keep them optimized and efficient, the landscaping can have a significant effect on the building and its energy use. Site orientation and landscape can also be powerful tools to control the energy needs of a building. ...
Businesses can't take on complex environmental and social issues without input from the full spectrum of stakeholders ranging from NGOs and community groups to their suppliers, employees and investors. Let's look at Timberland, which is intensely focused on its global supply chain, es...
This is excellent news for the alternative energy arena, but it comes with a few caveats. First, much of this capacity was manufactured in China, a market that has little to no environmental regulations in place. The production of solar cells is a toxic business, so producing solar in...
Even in the world of corporate branding, Pepsi's new social media enabled vending machine is pretty impressive. For a moment the ad makes you forget that Pepsi is loaded with high fructose corn syrup , and a host of scary additives. And as you drift into a world of blue bubbled carbon...
I am delighted to announce that ClimateProgress has a new journalist/blogger/podcaster-extraordinaire, Stephen Lacey. He is joining us after 5 years at renewablenergyworld.com . He will be reporting and pod-casting on a range of issues, but focusing especially on the reality of clean ...
WWF camera traps recorded an astounding 12 tigers in just two months in the central Sumatran landscape of Bukit Tigapuluh, including two mothers with cubs and three young tiger siblings playfully chasing a leaf. Bukit Tigapuluh was identified as a global priority Tiger Conservation La...
Eric Pickles wants to abandon the rules that force councils to provide allotments. Is this the end of the Good Life, or just the end of Pickles' career? By Hardluck Hotel Tweet The proposal by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles to abolish the rules that force councils to provide allot...
