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.
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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 […]
By Harriet Blake
In Columbus, Ohio, yesterday Mayor Michael Coleman and his staff biked from their homes to the Ohio Statehouse, jacking up their heart rates and kicking-off the city’s 20-year Bicentennial Bikeways Plan.
Photo: City of Columbus
Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman
In Boston, Mayor Thomas Menino fought a stiff wind cycling a half mile from City […]
Tags: Green Enthusiasts & Researchers · Model People · Cities & States · Other Transport
By Harriet Blake
The greening of America’s college campuses is happening from coast to coast. Stanford University hosts a green dorm project; the University of Texas has started the McCombs Green Team; and Northwestern University sponsors the annual Green City Summer Institute.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, home to some of the world’s finest […]
Tags: Schools, Universities & Churches · Model Projects · Energy & Water
By Bill Sullivan
Charles Harris is here, there and everywhere. While the rest of the Winston Solar Car Team dotes over “Sun Hunter”, the eighth such vehicle in the organization’s nearly 20-year history, the captain surveys the scene, making sure everyone is playing his or her proper role.
“Everyone here is motivated. You don’t have to […]
Tags: Fuels · Schools, Universities & Churches · Model Projects · Cars
By Shermakaye Bass
In the 1918 silent film starring “Scraps,” the canine hero, Charlie Chaplin asserted, “It’s a Dog’s Life.” Back then, “a dog’s life” was a good thing.
Photo: American Humane Association
But these days environmentalists are wondering: What exactly does a dog’s life consist of? Just how safe are our dogs and cats, our birds, […]
Tags: Clean & Maintain · Green Enthusiasts & Researchers · Food
By Lynette Holloway
Eastman Chemical may have come out ahead in the recent move by the Canadian government to label bisphenol-a, a chemical found in some forms of plastic, as toxic.
That is because the company already manufactures plastic without the noxious chemical, which could put its product in great demand. Last fall, the company rolled out […]
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By Bill Sullivan
Charles Stone expected to encounter a skeptic or two. He had done his research, and this outside-the-box idea seemed to make good sense, but the Director of Transportation for the Mansfield (Texas) Independent School District figured he still would have some explaining to do.
“Natural gas is a little unusual,” he says. “Most people […]
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Perhaps more than any other auto brand, General Motors’ Chevrolet division is applying various fuel-saving technologies across a wide range of vehicles, including full-size SUVs and pick-ups that are not usually thought of as environmentally friendly. The 2008 Tahoe Hybrid was even named Green Car of the Year by Green Car Journal. […]
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By Michele Chan Santos
On a quiet street in the tree-covered city of Rollingwood, a suburb of Austin, Texas, sits a house designed to epitomize everything technology and modern design can do to make a home environmentally friendly and safe for families with children.
Tags: Activists & Authors · Clean & Maintain · Model Projects · Green Them · Home Building · Energy & Water
By Barbara Kessler
How did Ford do it? Despite a gloomy domestic economy and malingering slumping car and truck sales, the American automaker scooped up a handy first quarter 2008 net income of $100 million (a huge boost of $382 million over Q1 2007).
Tags: Greener Businesses · Cars
Photo: National Wildlife Federation | Charlie Archambault
By Kelly Rondeau
Celebrating Earth Day (April 22) and National Wildlife Week (April 19-27) reminds families across America that getting unplugged from technology, and plugging into nature, is a great way to reconnect with themselves, each other, and the environment. And what better way to do this than to have […]
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By Barbara Kessler
Earth Day is 38 years old and still going strong. That says something about our nation’s commitment to the environment, or at least the commitment of those who’ve kept conservation issues – clean air, clean water, pure food — on the table all these years.
Photo © 2008 by Kim Komenich | Distributed […]
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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
In a mammoth report being issued this month, the U.S. Department of Energy lays out a detailed scenario in which, by the year 2030, one fifth of America’s electricity could come from wind.
The report, which is the work not only of DOE employees but of academics and a wide array of industry figures, announces itself as an effort “to start the discussion” about the various issues involved in attaining what they label the 20% Wind Scenario. The authors conclude that a “20% Wind Scenario in 2030, while ambitious could be feasible if the significant challenges identified in this report are overcome.” [Read more →]
What’s it take to stop drivers from polluting the air with their smoky old cars? A little green, apparently. That was the simple thought behind a North Texas plan aimed at getting older cars off the road to help the Dallas/Fort Worth region improve its air quality and meet EPA mandates. [Read more →]
By John DeFore
Among the most drooled-over new home entertainment products today are the OLED TVs recently introduced by Sony.
Standing for Organic Light Emitting Diode, the innovation eliminates the need for back lighting — allowing for unbelievably thin monitors — and produces pictures that almost everyone agrees are far superior to plasma and LCD. The trouble is, they could be nearly as big a step backward in environmental terms as they are a step forward in aesthetic ones. [Read more →]
