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.
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.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Es que tenemos un tema para el Día de la Tierra este año, y cómo podemos participar?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuál es la pauta de "rendimiento" de las inversiones ecológicas? ¿Estas compañías, ¿han dado mejores resultados como inversión que el resto del mercado en años recientes?
I cannot understand how anyone who has felt the sting of high gas prices, idled on crowded interstates and watched news reports about global warming, oil shortages and rising asthma levels can drive anything but a fuel-efficient, low-emission vehicle.
Bank of America"s environmental initiatives include a special credit card and lower mortgages for energy efficient homes.© www.bankofamerica.com Bank of America, the nation’s largest retail bank, announced last week that it will spend $20 billion on new environmental initiatives over the next decade. Ninety percent of the committed money will go to fund commercial lending […]
Ornithologists and birdwatchers the world over are excited about finding a large-billed reed-warbler in Thailand. The species was last seen in 1867 in India, and over time ornithologists began to doubt whether it was a unique species or just a genetic aberration of the larger reed-warbler family. But the recent discovery, and subsequent DNA testing and comparison, confirms that the large-billed reed-warbler is indeed a unique biological species of bird.
North Atlantic right whales are critically endangered. Less than 350 remain, despite the fact that they’ve been protected from commercial fishing for the past 65 years. Now scientists are studying those few remaining right whales to determine why their numbers are still on the decline and how technology can be used to help save them.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Las fuentes alternativas de energía como el viento, hidrógeno y los biocombustibles están atrayendo un montón de atención en estos momentos, pero que hay de los intentos de generar electricidad de las olas marinas?
<B>Querido DiálogoEcológico: Se ha prestado mucha atención al diseño de autos "ecológicos" pero, ¿se ha hecho lo mismo con las embarcaciones de placer?
Usually, all one really asks of a book is that it transports them somewhere. In the case of Noel Perrin and his book, Best Person Rural: Essays of a Some-time Farmer, (David R. Godine, $24.95) that “somewhere” is his 85-acre farm in Thetford Cen-ter, Vermont. That sounds like a lot of space, but the essays […]
I was raised by a hippie dad who instilled a love of the great outdoors, but my 11-year-old daughter proudly declares she hates mud, swamps and forests. This called for something drastic: I bought tickets to the land Down Under. Australia had changed my life, why not hers?
