patagonia Last fall, I received a Lidia Parka from Patagonia for review. Free stuff is awesome. Things that I’d never pay for (Cajun-spiced goji berries, washable maxipads with smiley faces) are 100% more appealing when gratis. For every dozen or so strange eco-freebie that a magazine or blog is sent in hopes of a favorable […]
Environmentalist, activist and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai leaves a legacy behind.
After a listeria outbreak leads to illness and death, a new effort is launched to investigate and detect food-borne illnesses.
Why Geothermal Deserves More Support Among alternative energy, wind and solar get all the media attention, all the glamour. Yet both suffer from intermittency, from the problem that their power sources wax and wane. Solar disappears at night and weakens when clouds interrupt, while wind has its own unpredictable schedule. By contrast, geothermal draws on […]
Canned tuna has a mercury problem and its “dolphin safe” restrictions are under attack.
On Sept. 24, thousands gathered in cities around the world to demand clean energy solutions.
Environmental activist and author Bill McKibben goes head-to-head with Robert Bryce of the Manhattan Project on PBS’ NewsHour over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline expansion that would carry 800,000 barrels of tar sands oil a day from Canada to Texas. TransCanada’s $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline, which is proposed to go through Montana, South Dakota, […]
Monitor electricity usage to maximize savings with this energy conservation app.Between air conditioning in the summer, heating in the winter, and the proliferating use of electronics—now smart phones, laptops, and flat screen TVs as much as refrigerators and microwaves—the average family’s electrical use is not only increasing, it’s getting more complicated. But Zerogate’s MeterRead app […]
New U.S Department of Energy efficiency standards will cut the energy use of most new refrigerators by 25%.
The EPA issues an air quality permit for Shell, bringing the oil giant one step closer to offshore drilling in Alaska in 2012.
