From www.wickedlocal.com: On the CNN Web site there is wonderful information about how to live more sustainably. On February 18 you can catch their “Tips On Going Green” program. You can also learn about Paul Gaynor and how he helped, with the stimulus package, to create a wind farm on a mountain top 80 miles [...]
Read the rest of this entry »From www.telegraph.co.uk: The sooner that the water melon groups (Green on the outside, red on the inside) like Greenpeace and FoE collapse the better. They represent elites who are rich enough to buy out of the restrictions they wish to impose on others. Carbon offsetting helicopter users being an example. … @ Rhys Jagger. What [...]
Read the rest of this entry »From www.eturbonews.com: Making money by going green, by reducing the company’s carbon footprint to zero – now that is a challenge, but as environmental awareness ranks ever higher among long-haul travelers – and Eastern Africa is a long-haul destination from most major tourist markets – the “going green” concept is gathering momentum and the time [...]
Read the rest of this entry »From rss.sciam.com: Enough sunlight bathes Earth’s daytime half in an hour to meet all human energy needs for a year. Sadly, there are several problems with meeting human energy demands by tapping such abundant, free solar power—not least of which is the cost of making semiconducting material that can cheaply harvest the power in sunlight. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »From www.telegraph.co.uk: The demand for electricity will decline as the passing of a peak in oil production reduces road and air travel. Orders for cars are already declining and those for aircraft are postponed or cancelled as airlines file for bankruptcy protection. Big users like steelworks are closing. If global warming is anthropogenic, it will [...]
Read the rest of this entry »From www.telegraph.co.uk: The demand for electricity will decline as the passing of a peak in oil production reduces road and air travel. Orders for cars are already declining and those for aircraft are postponed or cancelled as airlines file for bankruptcy protection. Big users like steelworks are closing. If global warming is anthropogenic, it will [...]
Read the rest of this entry »From www.greenrightnow.com: If you had the money and connections, you could build a snappy green house these days. Sink a geothermal heat pump to tap Mother Earth’s energy, slap up some solar panels, finish it out with non-toxic drywall, cork floors, denim insulation, recycled glass countertops and floors made from sunken ship decking. … This [...]
Read the rest of this entry »From rss.sciam.com: The rules may include guidelines for techniques such as rain gardens, rain barrels, green roofs, green streets and porous pavements, said Connie Bosma, the municipal branch chief in the EPA’s water permits division. … Developers were hit with federal construction runoff regulations in December, and every new rule carries a hefty price tag, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »From wclo.com: The City Council members are obviously misinformed and/or prejudicial in their judgement. They apparently don’t represent the majority here. It sure looks like the wishes and rights of the majority of towns people don’t matter. Since so many other towns are giving their people this right, and moving toward this more green lifestyle, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »From blogs.ajc.com: How do you feel about Going Green for Lent and giving up something that will help the environment as opposed to French fries or chocolate? … What do you think of the reasoning this it help us think our or less fortunate brothers and sisters around the world, as well as use less [...]
Read the rest of this entry »From www.communityadvocate.com: March 22, starting with 10:30 a.m. coffee, “Going Green with Marie Stella: An Environmentally Engineered Home and Landscape” will be presented at Garden in the Woods in Framingham. Fee: $15 members, $18 nonmembers. Pre-registration is required by contacting the registrar at 1-508-877-7630 ext. 3303. For more info, visit … Read the complete article: [...]
Read the rest of this entry »From green.yahoo.com: It’s your turn again. Who in your community deserves to be recognized? Is it the organizer of a local farmers’ market … or the local farmer herself? Maybe it’s the shopkeeper who refuses to sell suspect plastics … or the construction worker who donated his time to weatherize neighborhood homes. Is it the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »From search.japantimes.co.jp: The book, “Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan,” provides a close look at how people lived at the time using the rural setting of the rice farmer, the downtown setting of an urban carpenter and the elite setting of the urban samurai. The book, published by Kodansha International Ltd. and [...]
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