November 9, 2009 – 1:28 pm
“You can have a really fuel-efficient, dirty vehicle and a really clean, not-so-fuel-efficient vehicle,” says Karl Simon, a director of compliance and innovation for the EPA‘s Office of Transportation and Air Quality. “It really is pretty wide open from a technical perspective.” So-called fuel economy indeed is linked to emissions; however it is not the [...]
October 27, 2009 – 12:39 pm
The race is on to find a way to mass produce affordable fuel from pond algae. Sound strange? Here’s the scoop: Factors such as fluctuating oil prices and the hopes of easing climate change have caused the hunt for creative knew energy sources. The icky pond scum known as algae grows remarkably fast and is [...]
October 21, 2009 – 10:09 pm
Founder of the Green Party Ralph Nader, has released his first ever novel! For those of you who are not hip to the Green King, read and learn: Ralph Nader is the man responsible for the Environmental Protection Agency, an Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a Consumer Product Safety Commission, and a Safe Drinking Water [...]
October 10, 2009 – 3:27 pm
When you have an abandoned mine that has been leaking lead, zinc, iron, nickel, and a whole other bunch of minerals for years, into a stream that feeds wildlife, you’ve got the perfect equation for what is called an environmental catastrophe. But design a natural way of filtering all that stuff out, and you have [...]
October 9, 2009 – 3:21 pm
Trying to rebloom the deserts? Try Permaculture. A quick overview: The method, invented in the 1970′s, involves analyzing the environment you are trying to build and jumpstarting the system. Think of it as trying to get a dough to rise with a starter kit. For example, if you’re trying to grow chickens, you take into [...]
October 9, 2009 – 12:25 pm
His name is Rajendra Singh, and he is the River Maker of Rajasthan. This is a district in India, one of the largest and one of the driest, getting only 1 percent of India’s water resources. The drought had forced he and his wife to separate, she raising the kids, and he moving to a [...]
September 15, 2009 – 2:58 am
Check out this shower head. Most water-saving showerheads save their water by pinching the output and increasing pressure. This shower head does two things. First, it squeezes the output, and it also adds air to the mix, adding extra water pressure for your cleansing fun, as well as giving you a little breeze when you’re [...]
September 14, 2009 – 2:50 am
Dean Kamen, the inventor of the admittedly dorky, yet somehow cool Segway, is at it again. This time, he has invented the Slingshot. “We believe the world needs a slingshot to take care of its Goliath of a problem in water. So we decided to build a small machine and give it to the little [...]
September 10, 2009 – 1:18 pm
My apartment is full of compact fluorescent light bulbs. They use 20% of the energy a normal bulb uses, and they don’t heat up your house. They last 3 years running 8 hours a day, and they’re bright and beautiful. However, there is one setback. Break them by accident, and you’ll be dealing with a [...]
September 3, 2009 – 10:31 am
Every time we come up with a solution to some environmental problem, we end up causing another one. The batteries that run both hybrids and electric cars? They contain rare elements known as heavy earths, and these metals are extremely hard to come by. If you check out the periodic table here, three of the [...]
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