Photo: Patrick Gage Kelley As if turkey pot pie and turkey a la king aren't enticing enough on their own, here's another reason to eat leftovers this holiday season: About 1 million tons of CO2, 95 billion gallons of water, and $275 million will be thrown away this Thanksgiving in the...
The Renewable Heat Premium Payment scheme is already up and running, providing money off renewable heat technologies for householders. Vouchers are still available - householders have until 31st March next year to apply. There will also be support for householders under the second pha...
ted kerwin via Flickr /CC BY 2.0 Aaaaand here’s why we need good, well-upheld environmental regulations. An investigative report carried out by a small newspaper (and that’s why we need to keep those things around, too) has revealed that hexavalent chromium is spreading through the gr...
Hot on the heels of participating in the financing of Morocco’s 500 megawatt (MW) Ouarzazate concentrated solar power (CSP) project, the African Development Bank (AfDB) announced the signing of two historic loans totaling $365 million to South African electric utility Eskom to finance...
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It is perhaps an odd thing that Small Business Saturday is a project of American Express, which is rarely accepted by small businesses and rarely used by most of the 99%. But it is a great idea; as I wrote last year, Dense, walkable, resilient towns and cities are a key component of g...
Guyanese president Bharrat Jagdeo was once the posterboy for an international community eager to play up its dedication to climate change. The West was finally engaging with developing nations like his – tucked into a corner of the Amazon jungle between Brazil, Venezuela and Suriname ...
Snakes are wonderful, valuable animals who have been persecuted because of legends and the film industry's portrayal of them as monsters. Just because an animals does not have fur or feathers is no reason to vilify them. I hate the nasty snake roundups conducted in places like Texas a...
There’s a fascinating article in the New Yorker by Mattathias Schwartz that is largely about Kalle Lasn, a rogue retired marketing consultant I interviewed just before Thanksgiving, 2007 — the first year of this blog — about his “Buy Nothing Day” campaign. Schwartz’s article charts ho...
Cost-Effective Actions to Cut Black Carbon, Methane and Tropospheric Ozone Spotlighted in New Report Fri, Nov 25, 2011 The report outlines 16 measures, including the the capture of methane from landfill sites. London/Nairobi, 25 November 2011 -A package of 16 measures could, if fully ...
I became a bit of a lotion connoisseur in my quest to beat the weather and keep my skin soft throughout the day. And, of course, some of my very favorites became the simplest DIY recipes out there. I’ve always been a huge fan of the idea of “feeding” my skin just like I feed my body, ...
After another year marked by months of epic flooding in the capital city of 12 million, this month AFP reports that lawmakers in Thailand have submitted a parliamentary motion to begin discussions of building a second capital or moving Bangkok to higher ground. Sataporn Maneerat, a Pu...
In late November 2011, bushfires damaged or destroyed up to 20 properties in southwestern Australia, forcing residents to take refuge on a nearby beach, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. According to a bulletin from the Fire and Emergency Services Authority (FESA) of Western Austral...
New research suggests that drinking four or more cups of coffee a day can cut a woman’s risk of endometrial cancer by up to 25%. Endometrial cancer is a malignancy that forms in the lining of the uterus. More than 46,000 women in the U.S . will contract endometrial cancer this year, a...
If hanging out with the people who know just what a profoundly alone, naked ape you are has got you down, ThinkProgress has the cure for your post-Thanksgiving blues. Since a cargo ship leaked 350 tons of oil in New Zealand — marking the nation’s “most significant environmental mariti...
And that is exactly what the Green Deal is – a clever marketing strategy. As such it will no doubt be successful in the short run, generating euphoria and new lending in equal measure as the bubble in home energy services starts to build up. This phase may last for a few years, but ev...
After previously wondering why one gets pepper sprayed for camping in a park, but not for camping in front of a big box store, It turns out you are not safe from the stuff there, either. In a California Walmart, according to the Los Angeles Times , a woman used pepper spray for "compe...
“There is an epidemic of false advertising in the fur industry,” says Jonathan R. Lovvorn, the Humane Society’s senior vice president and chief counsel for animal protection litigation. “Consumers have a right to know what they’re buying, but many major retailers just don’t seem to ca...
Senior officials at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) are sceptical that solar can play a significant role in the UK's future energy mix and are committed to restricting demand for the technology so that it becomes "a toy for rich boys". BusinessGreen has learned seni...
I have to say, I am really excited about the potential of inflatable robots. For one, making robots from fabric can have huge implications on the future of materials usage. Also, when Cyberdyne Systems finally does go all Skynet on mankind, we might actually stand a fighting chance ag...
Additional sustainability initiatives at the airport include IAA’s recent completion of relighting projects in its parking garage and at the Indianapolis Maintenance Center that produce combined yearly savings of more than $250,000 and annually reduce CO2 emissions by 5,233 metric ton...
My compost may be thankful but my food remains insipid. I have been a victim of catatonic coriander and deceased dill for too long and frankly I have had enough. We are encouraged to grow our own but what are we to do if we don’t have the foggiest? Enter Jackie Day, a herbalist and ke...
For almost a century, scientists have tried and failed to ‘split water’ cost effectively to produce hydrogen and oxygen. Our process does not produce oxygen (O2), which has no significant value and is an expensive and slow reaction. Unlike conventional electrolysis, where hydrogen and...
After years of resistance, I finally started delving into the universe known as Twitter a few weeks ago. While I’m less than thrilled to have found yet another way to waste time online, there are some definite bright spots. One of them is this delicious recipe that popped on BrokeAss ...
Das NMU gibt zu, dass das Zwischenlager in Gorleben einem Terrorangriff nicht standhalten würde. In dieser Situation einen Castortransport mit hochradioaktivem Müll dorthin rollen zu lassen, ist eine unverantwortliche Gefährdung der betroffenen Bevölkerung , sagt Mathias Edler, Atomex...
An innovative plan to create man-made islands for sick and injured orangutans in Indonesia is offering hope of a better life for animals who have previously been destined to spend their remaining days in cages. While much of the fight to save the critically endangered Sumatran orangut...
As part of the Quest for CSR 2.0 series So you buy fair-trade or eco-friendly products, and you think that is a good thing, right? Think again. What if so-called ‘ethical consumers’ are the very ones standing between us a sustainable future? I’m crazy, right? Maybe, but here is why I ...
Ascent Solar Technologies develops innovative, lightweight, flexible, thin-film solar photovoltaic modules (that’s a mouthful, I know — read it again). Ascent’s flexible CIGS solar panels are so innovative they were named one of TIME’s are designed to integrate with limitless applicat...
“… at KB Home’s Newbury at the Enclave in Eastvale, Calif., a one-story, four bedroom home without a solar power system has an estimated monthly electric and gas bill of $108. With the expansion of KB Home’s solar power initiative, this home will now include a 3.15 kWp system as a sta...
We must first realize that EROI is a somewhat theoretical concept; it is a unitless ratio that does not describe actual flows of energy. What society really cares about, and what is really used to grow economies around the world, are actual flows of energy. More precisely, the economy...
