Too Much Cash For Clunkers?
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBy Lisa Stiffler The car buy-back program was a costly way to cut carbon. The stats from the Cash-for-Clunkers program sound so promising: more than 625,000 gas guzzlers taken off the road in exchange for more fuel-efficient ...
Too Much Cash For Clunkers?
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBy Lisa Stiffler The car buy-back program was a costly way to cut carbon. The stats from the Cash-for-Clunkers program sound so promising: more than 625,000 gas guzzlers taken off the road in exchange for more fuel-efficient ...
Colbert Report Presents Primer On Climate Change
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffSo Bill McKibben of 350.org went on Colbert the other night and explained how we can save our planet. Watch Bill below and join 350's October 24 day of action here. The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm ...
Collaborative Services: How to Have More By Owning Less
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffCollaborative Services: Social Innovation and Design for Sustainability by François Jégou, Ezio Manzini From shared carpentry studios to modern hitchhiking systems, this innovative study by sustainable design visionaries Jégou and Manzini contains a wealth ...
Collaborative Services: How to Have More By Owning Less
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffCollaborative Services: Social Innovation and Design for Sustainability by François Jégou, Ezio Manzini From shared carpentry studios to modern hitchhiking systems, this innovative study by sustainable design visionaries Jégou and Manzini contains a wealth ...
Transmaterial 2: Tracking Emerging Sustainable Materials
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffTransmaterial 2: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine Our Physical Environment by Blaine Brownell While Blaine Brownell's crusade to find, evaluate and report on emerging sustainable materials feels like a set description for ...
Shopping Our Way to Safety
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffShopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves by Andrew Szasz Fearful of public water fountains, you buy bottled water instead. By examining this ...
Basel Action Network
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffImage by Getty Images via DaylifeThe Basel Action Network (BAN) is a policy advocacy group that researches and investigates issues of toxic waste. BAN drives campaigns to eliminate toxic, electronic waste dumping, especially in developing countries. ...
Basel Action Network
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffImage by Getty Images via DaylifeThe Basel Action Network (BAN) is a policy advocacy group that researches and investigates issues of toxic waste. BAN drives campaigns to eliminate toxic, electronic waste dumping, especially in developing countries. ...
Antiques of the Future
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffAntiques of the Future by Lisa Roberts Product designer Lisa Roberts showcases here the mass-produced objects she believes will be valuable in the future, once their production is discontinued. While many items are inexpensive, ...
Antiques of the Future
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffAntiques of the Future by Lisa Roberts Product designer Lisa Roberts showcases here the mass-produced objects she believes will be valuable in the future, once their production is discontinued. While many items are inexpensive, ...
Unscientific America 2: Buy The Book – And Read It
Thursday, August 6th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffThe fate of the next 50 generations may well be determined in the next several months and the next several years. Will Congress agree to a shrinking GHG cap and the clean energy transformation? ...
Hi Honey I’m Home – The New Hobby That’s Creating A Buzz In Britain’s Towns And Cities
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBy Caroline Davies The humble native honeybee has been dying out in recent years due to disease, but it may have found an unlikely ally in a creature which shares a reputation for busyness: the urban dweller. Apiarist ...
Fun And Games With Human Misery
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffHere’s a fun game to play with friends, particularly friends who work on social ventures or other world-changing projects. Ask each person what issues they’d work on if they were given $500 million, $50 million or ...
Fun And Games With Human Misery
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffHere’s a fun game to play with friends, particularly friends who work on social ventures or other world-changing projects. Ask each person what issues they’d work on if they were given $500 million, $50 million or ...
The Folly Of ‘Magical Solutions’ For Targeting Carbon Emissions
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBy Roger A. Pielke, Jr. Setting unattainable emissions targets is not a policy — it’s an act of wishful thinking, argues one political scientist. Instead, governments and society should focus money and attention on workable solutions for ...
Can Twitter Help Us To Save Energy At Home?
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBy Pete Davies Does a display of information help us to save energy? Or will it take something more? There's a house that tweets all of it's energy usage. And that's really just the beginning of the information ...
Can Twitter Help Us To Save Energy At Home?
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBy Pete Davies Does a display of information help us to save energy? Or will it take something more? There's a house that tweets all of it's energy usage. And that's really just the beginning of the information ...
Seasonal Fruit And Veg On Your iPhone
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBy Pete Davies No more excuses for eating asparagus in September Locally produced food isn’t necessarily better for the environment. But seasonal and local fruit or vegetables probably are. And while your grocery store may tell you ...
Seasonal Fruit And Veg On Your iPhone
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBy Pete Davies No more excuses for eating asparagus in September Locally produced food isn’t necessarily better for the environment. But seasonal and local fruit or vegetables probably are. And while your grocery store may tell you ...