If you’ve got to drive on vacation (sorry it looks like U.S. only for now) you can now choose to drive green.Hertz recently announced it has fuel-efficient vehicles available at over 50 major airports in the U.S. The car rental… Read More »Hire a green car
A recent report by Greenpeace predicts that with the right policy moves and investment, solar power can provide electricity to upwards of 2 billion people, provide 2 million jobs, and reduce carbon emissions equivalent to that of 140 coal fired power plants by 2040.
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Donna Barnett is keeping a blog to document her search for clean air. In Donna’s blog, called aptly, Chasing Clean Air, she talks about her experiences of starting over mid-life, her struggle to breath in Los Angeles, and provides links… Read More »21st century pioneer goes in search of clean air
An Albuquerque, New-Mexico based, non-profit company called Holistic Management International (HMI) is recommending that farmers and ranchers increase the organic content of their lands to help fight global warming. And how do they do this? They employ animal grazing techniques developed 25 years ago by HMI. The results speak for themselves. Here are photographs of the same piece of land in Zimbabwe, the first taken in September 2004, the second in May 2006.
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Being an avid composter, this article by Marion Owen really appealed to me. From now on I will be composting wool socks, old leather gardening gloves, pencil shavings, toenail clippings, wooden toothpicks, stale bread, old pasta, dead bees and flies,… Read More »163 things you can compost
Climate change is inevitable and we have to find ways to adapt to living in a warmer world. Frances Cairncross addressed the BA annual festival with this message. She believes that at this stage even maximum deployment of the most… Read More »Learn to live with it
Michael Richard, treehugger.com editor, tells the world which are the greatest, greenest inventions ever. From The Independent:
THE ECO KETTLE
It is estimated that, on average, we boil twice the volume of water needed every time we use our kettles. With a 3kW kettle that’s the same as wasting the energy of around 50 light bulbs. And standard kettles are often highly inefficient – a stove-top kettle, for instance, requires energy to heat the handle and shell in addition to the water. But British designer Brian Hartley’s Eco Kettle solves these problems at a stroke. You fill it up, and then use the measuring button to release the exact amount of water you require – from a single cup to a full jug – into a separate chamber for boiling. It is also insulated to keep the water hot. The result is an energy saving of up to 30 per cent.
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From The Independent: It is not just the state of California that is bypassing the authority of the US government to take action on global warming. The mayors of more than 300 cities across the country have signed a Climate… Read More »US direct action: How American cities have bypassed Bush on Kyoto
Friends and colleagues of Rebecca Rotzler have set up a ‘Draft Rebecca Rotzler for President’ website. Rebecca is Deputy Mayor of the Village of New Paltz, and is also a Co-Chair of the Green Party of the United States (GP-US)… Read More »Rebecca Rotzler for president