Tag: Air Pollution - Page 10
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Weekend Without Oil To Help Teens Reduce Consumption
We've been focused on educating people about reducing their oil consumption (see our Minus Oil series), so when we heard from DoSomething about their Weekend Without Oil it was as if the idea had
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Stop Eating Fossil Fuels, Start Eating Food
Michael Pollan says that if you eat a typical American diet, you are made of corn. Dale Allen Pfeiffer takes it one step further, and says We are Eating Fossil Fuels. (Actually, Jaymi points out that Michael Pollan says that too.)
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Air-Purifying Road Surface Eats 45% of NOx Pollution
Photo: Flickr, CCNOx, NOM NOM NOMResearchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands have tested pollution-eating concrete on about 1,000 square meters of roads in the town of Hengelo. We already knew it worked in the lab, but
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Hyper-Invasive Kudzu Worsens Ozone Levels, Air Pollution
Just as much of the US east of Appalachia is in the midst of a serious heat wave comes word that kudzu--that hyper-invasive vine that can grow up to seven feet a week and will cover everything in its
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German Government Proposes Eco-tax on Air Travel
Everyone knows by now that the European member states have started a belt-tightening kick. Germany's Chancellor Merkel has presented an austerity plan that includes an eco-tax on air travel. And the air is already heating up:
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Could we Clean Up Air Pollution from Cargo Ships with... H2O?!
Photo: Flickr, CCPollution MachinesBig cargo ships are basically air pollution machines. Most of them have very dirty engines, burning the dirtiest kinds of fuel, and doing so in mostly unregulated waters. It's no wonder that by some estimates just 1
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Compressed Air Runs Motorcycle for Up to 40 Minutes
Get on your bad motor scooter and ride. This motorcycle runs on compressed air, rather than polluting gas (like the one shown above). It's been designed, conceptually, by two India scientists, and uses compressed air to
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Activists Send a Message by Cleaning Things Up a Bit
When police arrived to a tunnel in downtown Porto Alegre, Brazil, having received word that some youths were tagging its walls with graffiti, it must have seemed like a pretty clear case of vandalism. But after a few of the
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Ignoring Soot Pollution Means We're 8 More Years Behind Schedule in Tackling Climate Change
TreeHugger has written about the growing acknowledgement that soot pollution is a major component of global warming--contributing a shocking amount to melting of glaciers in the Himalayas is just
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The Best Green Cars and Technology From Michelin's 2010 Challenge Bibendum Show (Slideshow)
This year, French tire giant Michelin (yes, the Michelin that made the tires on your car) held its 10th Challenge Bibendum event, this time in Rio de Janeiro. If you've never heard of this thing, don't kick yourself,
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60% of Americans Live Where Pollution "Reaches Dangerous Levels"
The effective manner in which the US has dealt with air pollution in cities since the passage of the Clean Air Act is a point of pride for environmentalists as well as legislators. But that's not to say that pollution doesn't persist in many parts of
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Design Academy Eindhoven is asking questions!
One of the shows that stood out this year at the Milan Furniture Fair was the Design Academy Eindhoven's Question exhibition at the up and coming district Ventura Lambrate. With
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The Return of the Contrails
The end of the ban on flying seems to be touch and go with most flights still cancelled until later this afternoon. But some are rhapsodizing about a world without planes and the joys of cloud watching
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Blending Diesel with Biomass-Based Nylon Precursor Cuts Soot by 50%
A doctoral student and researcher at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven has created a new type of diesel fuel that produces significantly less soot than conventional diesel. This was accomplished by mixing 10% of cyclohexanone
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Plants that are Lamps, Lamps that are Plants
This is my favorite trend so far at the Milan Furniture Fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010: a plant that is a lamp, lamp that is a plant.
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EPA Won't Regulate Greenhouse Gases Until Next Year
Just now, the EPA has formally announced that it will delay regulating greenhouse gas emissions from the nation's biggest polluters until next year. However, in issuing the announcement, the agency affirms that it will
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Asian Monsoon Pumps Air Pollution Into Stratosphere, Helps Spread Throughout the Globe
We've known for some time that air pollution created in Asia--largely because of fast expanding economic activity fueled by coal--spreads far and wide, even reaching the shores of the United States. Well, new research
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Green as Good Politics: Seoul Mayor Stakes Reelection on Clean Air Policy, Ambitious EV Plan
How many politicians in the US could run their campaigns strictly on green issues, and do well in the polls? San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom and Seattle mayor Mike McGinn, to name a couple, have both publicly orchestrated fairly
