If you are an American reading this post, you probably emit 10,000 pounds of carbon ever year into the environment. Would you like to improve that statistic? Then join.
This grass-roots organization is based on a simple idea: it encourages individuals to reduce carbon emissions by 2,000 pounds each year and then tell 10 people how [...]
What happens when corporations stop greenwashing…and start being real? MTV wants to find out. The NYC-based network just launched a global marketing push to tackle climate change with TV ads attacking those guilty of greenwashing. All of this is part of their youth-targeted climate change initiative .
The launch includes not only TV ads, but also [...]
It’s about time!
California’s historic Fairfax Theatre claims that it will be the first major movie theater in the United States to to help cover its energy costs. *
In addition to supplying clean energy, it will save the theater’s owner about 7,000 over the estimated thirty year life of the 42 unit system. Over that [...]
For the first time in recorded human history, the Arctic has become an island to itself, completely separate from the landmasses that the Arctic ice normally stretches out onto. This distressingly historic event has been captured by NASA satellites, depicting both the Northwest and Northeast passages as ice free.
For the past few [...]
With a constant need to look out for the planets ecosystems, it is always saddening to see that some governments simply are not. So when I saw the news that, over the past 12 months, deforestation in the Amazon rain forest had jumped 69%, I was literally shocked.
According to the National Institute for Space [...]
With a constant need to look out for the planets ecosystems, it is always saddening to see that some governments simply are not. So when I saw the news that, over the past 12 months, deforestation in the Amazon rain forest had jumped 69%, I was literally shocked.
According to the National Institute for Space [...]
Ever found yourself making it to the end of a week, hoping for a sunny weekend in which to lie outside or head to the beach or do some gardening, only to wake up on Saturday morning to overcast skies? I bet it’s happened before, probably more than once.
Well it seems that, [...]
Why is expanded offshore drilling not the lasting solution to the U.S.’s energy problems? Besides many of the other valid reasons (decades to get to market, potential environmental devastation, oil as a global commodity), Satish Nagarajaiah offers another one:
Billions and billions of dollars in potential storm-related losses.
A civil and mechanical engineering professor at Rice University, [...]
Hands up anyone who’s read JD Salinger’s classic . Lawks, but there’s a lot of you.
OK: hands up anyone who hasn’t read it. Ah … that’s a much more manageable number.
The book is a modern classic. It starts with the expulsion of an angst ridden boy from a private school for lack [...]
I can see the Freecycle post now:
OFFER: I have six million carp, good condition. Nothing wrong with them; just have more than I need. You must pick up.
The State of Utah might just be posting like this something soon. Apparently, they’re in the market to unload a few carp–approximately six million–that are tearing up the [...]
