Mountains of salt are spread on snowy roads in North America every winter, despite the fact that environmentalists have been warning against it for years. Well, studies are piling up, indicating indeed that the cost may be too high.
Martin Mittelstaedt reports in the Globe and Mail about a new study of Frenchman’s Bay, a [...]
January 26, 2010 – 11:01 am
Dreamers imagine this: a form of electricity which emits to the atmosphere ZERO carbon dioxide emissions, while being affordable.
Dreamers imagining, you are engaging the vision proposed by MIT researcher Dr. Thomas Adams and Lammot du Pont professor of Chemical Engineering,
October 22, 2009 – 11:02 am
Thought that only kids can be tree huggers? Think again! ICOM Information and Communications, conducted a recent study which found that:
“consumers over the age of 55 are the most prolific users of environmentally friendly household products. Females ages 55 to 59 are the greenest, more than twice as likely as the average consumer to use [...]
October 16, 2009 – 5:41 pm
The Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid. It is touted as the most
advanced minivan ever created. You can put either gasoline it, or hydrogen, doesn’t matter which. (Different tanks. Can’t mix gasoline and hydrogen in the same tank. Bad news.) It runs on both. If you fill it with hydrogen, it becomes a zero-emissions vehicle, with [...]
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 account [...]
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 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 [...]
David de Rothschild is no ordinary person; and certainly no ordinary adventurer. The son of Britain’s Evelyn de Rothschild of the famous Rothschild banking family, and a known adventurer and environmentalist, David has already accomplished a number of feats in his 31 years, including crossing both the Arctic icecap and entire continent of Antarctica, including [...]
You have to hand it to those UAE Gulf states. Their futuristic projects are simply something out of a popular science fiction novel; and 25 years or so ago, they definitely would have been. Environmental projects including specially designed buildings, business parks and residential centers are years ahead of other countries. And now, a project [...]
