Making Good On New Year’s Resolution of Reduced Carbon Footprint
My New Year’s Resolution is to reduce my “carbon footprint” to help fight global warming. Do you have suggestions for ways I can make good on my promise?
My condo kitchen floor is vinyl, installed back in 1979
Today, the only money to be made from asbestos is by those in the business of getting rid of it, and an entire industry has sprung up specializing in safely removing asbestos from both commercial and residential buildings.
From Baby Wear to Eco Beers
It’s refreshing to see companies take responsibility for the environment.
COMMENTARY: Is Begley Changing Colors?
What’s this? Liberal, tree-hugging, famously blond Ed Begley, Jr. praising a conservative Republican, acknowledging that pollution can’t always be avoided, and sporting dark brown hair? Has the star—along with his wife Rachelle Carson—of HGTV’s Living With Ed changed his colors from the green of the environmental movement? Don’t count on it.
Strict Standards Lost Opportunities with New Energy Bill
For the first time in three decades, Congress has moved decisively to decrease America’s oil dependency by raising fuel economy standards for new cars and trucks sold in the U.S. to 35 miles per gallon on average.
The Green Exchange Launching in 2008
NYMEX Holdings and Evolution Markets have formed a consortium of some of the nation’s leading financial institutions to launch the Green Exchange, a commodities trading marketplace in which U.S.-based companies could buy and sell the right to emit carbon dioxide and other environmental pollutants.
We just started an environmental club at our high school
High school students in EarthTeam’s Restoration Program plant native plants at the Strentzel Meadow site in Martinez, California.© EarthTeam
Semana del 16/12/2007
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Estoy buscando trabajo y lo quisiera encontrar en una compañía que esté ya mercadeando un producto o servicio "verde" o que esté intentando seriamente mejorar su "huella ecológica." ¿Dónde miro?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Por qué no han avanzado más rápidamente en el mercado las bombillas fluorescentes compactas, que sobrepasan las incandescentes, dadas sus ventajas de ahorro de energía substancial? ¿Y qué pasa con el reciclaje de ellas cuando finalmente se queman? He oído que contienen mercurio.
Mad for Millet
Bringing Whole Grains Back: There are lots of healthy grains that Americans are ignoring: from millet, to barley to buckwheat.
Balancing with Nature
The Green Yoga Association is premised on the notion that yoga is inextricably linked to nature.