Making 15 products that touch every portion of our lives more energy-efficient could save Californians a whopping $1.2 billion off their utility bills annually by slashing enough electricity to power every household in Los Angeles . Los Angeles Skyline, courtesy of Big Skyline That do...
Solar Impulse , the most famous solar plane in the world, is currently performing test flights in Phoenix, Arizona at the Sky Harbor International Airport. The folks behind it are entertaining the curious public as well as other renewable energy supporters, including the Governor of A...
Over a quarter-million people are exposed daily to the benefits of electric transportation Nissan dealerships in some markets have reported that the Leaf has outsold all other Nissan models for particular sales periods this year Tesla's Model S is outselling the Mercedes-Benz S-Class,...
Gold mining today is far from the charming, if soggy, practice of standing in a river and trying to sift out gold nuggets. Today, miners sift out gold from a river of cyanide, basically: They mine rock with tiny concentrations of gold in it, crush it up, and use cyanide to pull the go...
Back in 1897, a structure called the California Cycleway came very close to beautiful existence. The elevated structure would have provided a smooth, flat, uninterrupted ride for the nine miles from Pasadena to downtown. (You can see a Google map of the proposed route here .) Man, bik...
An embryonic clone is a different story. In this technique, scientists take an unfertilized egg cell and remove the DNA in the nucleus, keeping its mitochondrial DNA intact. They then take an adult skin cell, extract the DNA, and insert it in the place of the egg's original nucleus. N...
This month I am compelled to stay on the topic of water's cost and value for several reasons. First, while discussions of the "full cost" or "true cost" of water are helpful, they do not capture the complexity of all of the issues related to the value of water. I also believe the huma...
That tallies with virtually every other previous survey, suggesting Americans as a whole drive little more than this per day--and confirms that even 100-mile electric vehicles comfortably cover the average driver's daily duties. Even so, drivers would still prefer a little more--a who...
Shutterstock / Rob Wilson Have we been paying too much for gas? The good folks at BP , Shell , and Statoil would never break the law and screw over their customers in a quest for inflated profits, surely. Yet that is the very accusation coming out of Europe, where the industry giants ...
The social entrepreneurship field is growing, exciting, full of potential, but limiting itself, affecting what it could achieve. This is particularly unfortunate as this field seems to be onto something. For some reasons, it resonates. Author Giles Hutchins states , “It … seems that m...
There are good sides and bad sides to that. The bad side is that it’s really expensive. People seem to think that’s wicked, but if you think about spending money on a proposition as educating people about something complicated, then spending money’s not bad. The bad part is, is it com...
A 4-post series can only scratch the surface of misbehavior, so readers may expect a much more detailed report later, of which a few completed sections will be attached. Some people create FOIA fishing expeditions to harass climate scientists, but careful FOIAs can be used as original...
There’s still a big black mark on BP. BP has gone crying to mummy over the big payouts it’s having to make because of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. It wants the U.K. government to ask the U.S. government to step in and give a hand. BP says it’s being forced to make overly large...
A Plague of Deforestation Sweeps Across Southeast Asia Illegal logging and unchecked economic development are taking a devastating toll on the forests of Vietnam and neighboring countries, threatening areas of biodiversity so rich that 1,700 species have been discovered in the last 15...
“Climate resiliency” is a new buzzword in environmental communications. Buzzwords are exciting because when they're successful, they convey important concepts in a compact and compelling way. At the same time, it's easy to assume audience understanding and for terms to be co-opted ove...
Crazy cat numbers: unusually high jaguar densities discovered in the Amazon rainforest (05/16/2013) Jaguars (Panthera onca ) are the biggest cat in the Americas and the only member of the Panthera genus in the New World; an animal most people recognize, the jaguar is also the third la...
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I was in the mood for a chocolate mousse and started looking around for a vegan recipe. I thought it would be a bit lighter than a traditional recipe, and to be honest I was curious if a vegan recipe could even hold a candle to a mousse made with dairy. When I found a recipe that call...
I first met Waste Management president and CEO David P. Steiner in 2008, when I interviewed him onstage at a corporate sustainability event. He talked about “reinventing everything” at his then 40-year-old company by changing behavior and leveraging technology in order to turn waste i...
The Indian government is set to repose millions of dollars in financial support for solar power project developers from the coal tax corpus it has accumulated over the last few years. Project developers looking to set up projects under the second phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National...
I say happily because (a) Ashburton is one of my all-time favourite Devon towns nestling on the foothills of Dartmoor, where Steven Spielberg filmed War Horse (b) the cookery school has been established for over a decade, is brilliant at what it does and thus can boast a high number o...
