QueridoDiálogoEcológico: Mi reciclador local no acepta mis guías telefónicas viejas. ¿Qué podría hacercon ellas?
QueridoDiálogoEcológico: Soy un partidario de la energía solar para salvar al ambiente, pero este tipode energía no ha resultado muy económica. ¿Qué novedades se ven en el horizonteque podrían reducir los costos para hacer la energía solar más competitiva con otrasclases de energía?
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) announced last week in its annual ridership survey that Americans took 10.1 billion trips on local public transportation in 2006, up 30 percent since 1995. The last time Americans took as many trips on public transit was 1957. Light rail topped APTA’s list as the mode with the highest recent growth trend.
A recently released report by the United Nations" Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) found that the world’s forests are shrinking, but not as fast as in previous tallies. According to the FAO’s "State of the World’s Forests 2007," economic prosperity and careful forest management have played a role in slowing the global rate of forest loss.
Stanley N. Alpert was Chief of Environmental Litigation at the U.S. Attorneys" Office in New York City when, in 1998, he was kidnapped at gunpoint by a gang of robbers. He now runs The Alpert Firm in New York City, bringing environmental and toxic tort lawsuits. His book, The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival, released by Putnam in January, relates the grueling ordeal, path to survival, and investigation that led to the roundup of the perpetrators. Alpert reflects on environmental law and his career as an environmental prosecutor, both civil and criminal, in the following excerpt from the book.
Did General Motors intentionally sabotage sales of its electric EV-1? That’s the contention of Chris Paine’s popular 2006 film Who Killed the Electric Car?
One of the most common questions about alternative energy vehicles is, "How do they drive?" The reality is that most carmakers try as much as possible to make their experimental vehicles "transparent" to the driver, erasing any indication of the exotic or unusual.
Window-sticker fuel economy is almost always hopelessly optimistic. If the sticker says 30 mpg on the highway, expect 25 when headed down a mountain with a tailwind. But now the information is being updated for more realistic results.
Ever wondered how a Toyota Prius ended up as Larry David’s vehicle of choice on Curb Your Enthusiasm? Read on and his very environmentally involved wife Laurie will explain it all to you.
Most produce people eat, organic or not, travels thousands of miles to reach the shelves of their local supermarket. The journey exacts a huge toll on the environment as refrigerated tractor-trailers packed with green tomatoes and bananas crisscross the country, burning diesel and spewing pollution and greenhouse gas. The solution: eat locally grown food.
Across the U.S., an urban agriculture movement is flowering as a growing number of people become more interested in the process of growing their own food. Urban farms and gardens are taking root in areas where previously only concrete and asphalt thrived.
