Set sprinklers to water the lawn or garden only - not the street or sidewalk.
Use the microwave to cook small meals. (It uses less power than an oven.)
Purchase "Green Power" for your home's electricity. (Contact your power supplier to see where and if it is available.)
Scrape, rather than rinse, dishes before loading into the dishwasher; wash only full loads.
Cut back on air conditioning and heating use if you can.
Turn off appliances and lights when you leave the room.
By John DeFore
It must be a bittersweet moment to be Darrell Hammond.
Every talk Al Gore gives, after all, continues to prove the Saturday Night Live veteran’s brilliance at honing in on the speech patterns of public figures; if Gore can’t tweak his style after years of mockery, then clearly Hammond caught something elemental.
But in [...]
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By Barbara Kessler
It’s starting to sound like an Obama Campaign Slogan parsing contest out there in the U.S. Greenscape.
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Longtime ocean advocate Ted Danson is pressing Canada to take a more active role in efforts to reduce fisheries subsidies.
By Shermakaye Bass
Celebrities trade on their celebrity and always have – sometimes in not so earth-friendly ways. But among the nobler echelons of Hollywood, Manhattan and London, renown is fuel for green [...]
By Barbara Kessler
The newly formed We campaign, brainchild of the Alliance for Climate Protection founded by former Vice President Al Gore and colleagues, has begun a media effort that rests on the belief that united “we” will succeed in fighting climate change.
The group’s first videos in its “Unlikely Alliances” series, airing on network and [...]
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Earth Day reverberated around the world on Sunday, with festivals from Tokyo to Barcelona to San Francisco. In the United States, the key urban festivals attracted crowds of thousands as entertainers blasted music in New York City’s Central Park, the Mall in Washington D.C. and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
But while the day was [...]
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By John DeFore
Plenty of classical musicians have used wardrobe to set themselves apart from their peers, from the Versace-ish getups that helped put the Kronos Quartet on the map to the punk haircut of violinist Nigel Kennedy. But a dress made of garbage may be a first — almost certainly at Carnegie Hall.
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By Barbara Kessler
When Phoenix Sun guard Steve Nash takes to the All-Star court in New Orleans today, he’ll be showing one great new move – toward a more eco-responsible world. Nash will be wearing the Nike Trash Talk, the first pro-quality basketball shoe made from recycled manufacturing waste.
The Nike Trash Talk is composed of [...]
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By Barbara Kessler
Focus the Nation, a collective effort to find global warming solutions that’s being called the country’s largest ever national teach-in, kicks off tonight with a free web cast available to anyone who wants to participate.
The web cast will focus on the “2% Solution,” which refers to the need to decrease carbon emissions [...]
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By Shermakaye Bass
If you’ve heard the Lazy Environmentalist on Sirius Radio or have read the LE website or book, or have shopped at the Vivavi green-design showroom in Brooklyn, then you’ve more or less met Josh Dorfman, the man behind the movement.
He’s everywhere. It’s everywhere. And now it seems the pithy, practical naturalist [...]
By Tom Kessler
Live Earth – the Concerts for a Climate in Crisis arrives in stores today as a 2 DVD/1 CD highlights package of last July’s historic global event that brought together entertainers for concerts in eight international cities. It captures many inspirational performances, particularly those from Linkin Park (pictured), Foo Fighters, Melissa [...]
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In this round-up from DallasNews.com, you’ll get the details on how Owen Wilson (pictured), Robert Redford, Martha Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are making an effort to be green right now.
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By John DeFore
Over the last few years, moviegoers may have come to expect that any documentary pairing scientists and ice caps will be a scare-fest or a sermon — a big-screen effort to hammer home the urgent need to take action countering climate change.
Not so with Encounters at the End of the World, a film that’s drawing glowing reviews as it expands into theaters across the country. Yes, the movie has things to say about the environment — in at least one instance, it even suggests that humankind’s days here are numbered — but it is far from strident, superficially issue-driven, or even political. [Read more →]
By Nima Kapadia
Jobs in renewable energy are increasing worldwide and causing the coal industry to distribute pink slips, according to a Worldwatch Institute study.
The report, written by Worldwatch senior researcher Michael Renner, estimates that 2.3 million people are working in renewable energy jobs - either directly or indirectly. From that number:
By John DeFore
Proposals to solve the planet’s CO2 woes through sequestering the problematic emissions — pumping them into some hole in the ground where they can’t affect the atmosphere — raise numerous concerns for skeptics. Won’t the stuff leak out, wasting the fortune we spent on sequestering, and leaving us worse off than we would have been by cutting CO2 production in the first place?
Researchers led by Columbia University geophysicist David Goldberg think they’re closer to resolving some of those concerns, with a proposal that would address the possibility of leakage on two fronts. [Read more →]
