Can green homes actually become affordable? “To stand out in a still sluggish housing market, more builders are beginning to offer average-priced, ultra-efficient homes.” Writes Wendy Koch a reporter and editor from USA Today. Green One Construction Services, based in Beaverton, Oregon, is currently working on a zero-net-energy development of eighteen homes designed to produce [...]
Steve Brooker, a good man from the state of Kansas, understandably perturbed by BP’s damage to the Gulf of Mexico has had a creative epiphany. He has made printing ink of lemons and oil. Brooker is using oil from the environmental disaster to make Necklaces and print T-shirts. Some of the proceeds he will donate [...]
Every day that the chances for a Climate Change Bill drift further from the shore, the coal lobby becomes increasingly optimistic. Friends of Big Coal on Capitol Hill, however, are insisting that they put the partying on pause. The Fat Lady has not yet sung the song for the coal industry — and she probably [...]
It was reported in the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph that the Japanese government has launched a campaign which encourages people to get to bed and get up extra early in order to cut-down household carbon dioxide emissions. The Environment Ministry unveiled the Morning Challenge campaign, basing it on the premise that swapping late night [...]
Environmental news is an all-embracing category – and so it needs to be in order to sustain longevity of popular interest and legitimacy even. Hey we can’t count emissions all day and expect that people won’t eventually get tired. NaturalBuy.com has got to stay fresh you see, like the necessary dynamics in a healthy marriage. [...]
Once upon a time there was an evil man who wanted to steal all of the light on planet earth. He wore a crown made of sulfate crystals which attracted rays from the sun. He kept it all locked up in a special room underneath his palace; and for many years the planet went without [...]
Ever since Julius Caesar ruled much of the world, the wine business has been huge. In 2009, California alone sold 554 million gallons domestically and abroad. But back when Caesar was toasting his latest military victory they probably weren’t thinking about the ecological effects of a 100 B.C. vintage. By the same token, their vineyards [...]
We are on the heels of the hot sunny summer season – and what with global warming, things are only going to be getting hotter. Let’s face it, you’re going to want something cold to drink – and if you’re anything like me, you’ll go for a beer. Since environmentalists love The Ancient Brew of [...]
Two congressmen will be holding hearings to investigate how well companies have responded to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – still stubborn to clean-up operations. U.S. Representatives Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak sent letters requesting the testimony of officials from BP America,Transocean and Halliburton. BP is the one who operates the [...]
The Announcement: The Obama administration has approved the nation’s first offshore wind farm, off Cape Cod, essentially moving the U.S. closer to harvesting an untapped domestic energy source – that is the steady blowing coastal breeze. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced his decision in Boston last Wednesday, clearing the way for a 130-turbine wind [...]
