Tag: Environmental Footprint - Page 5
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First Ever UL Certification for Solar Power Goes to Flexible Panels
While flexible solar panels are not as efficient as standard solar panels you see on the rooftops of homes, they are increasing in popularity since they can be used in applications where conventional solar panels simply aren't practical. And now, one
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Sustainability is Not Black Or White - "More Sustainable" is Possible
When I wrote about industrial agriculture exploring sustainability, commenter Ruben suggested that the idea of something being "more sustainable" was illogical. Citing Bill Rees, the inventor of
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Is Hauling Your Own Trash Green?
When I took up the rural green life (elitist or not), there was an inevitable trade-off between bee keeping, large-scale composting, mushroom growing, keeping chickens and other 'sustainable' pursuits,
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"Pay-As-You-Throw" Trash Metering Cuts Landfill Waste by 50% in a Month
Some places have looked at paying people to recycle, but others think it makes more sense to charge people for their waste instead. When the UK talked about implementing a "pay-as-you-throw" scheme for trash, our readers were
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Can We Preach Green Without Being Preachy? (Video)
I asked before why so many people hate environmentalists, and concluded that it might have something to do with green living as passive aggressive preaching, disasterbation, not to mention the ever-familiar but oh-so-annoying pious
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Tracking the Extinctions and Adaptations Around Us
The last great extinction occurred sixty five million years ago. You can visit the exact point on earth where it started, on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. The Chicxulub crater, more than 110 miles in diameter, was
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Ask Pablo: What Makes A Hotel "Green?"
Virtually every hotel these days has signs asking you to hang your towel if you want to use it again or leave it on the
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New Belgium Gets Top Honors on List of Greenest Breweries
This week, Greenopia released its updated green rankings of the world's 15 largest breweries. Judged on the growing practices of the barley, malt and hops it uses, transportation, production efficiency
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Animation Tracks Explosions of Every Nuclear Bomb From 1945 to Present (Video)
An art project by Isao Hashimoto does a phenomenal job of showing us where and when we started obliterating pieces of the planet with nuclear weapons. In a short video, Hashimoto shows every nuclear bomb explosion on the
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Squirrel: A Sustainable Meat, and "Tastes Lovely"
Move over kangaroo, horse, and nutria - there's a new meat on the supermarket shelves at Budgens in the UK - it's squirrel. Squirrel has been eaten in the U.S. south for ages, and Budgens owner Andrew Thornton
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Bike Transforms Into Shopping Cart, Leaves No Excuses for Driving to the Store
Riding your bike to the farmer's market or store rather than driving is a great way to trim down your carbon footprint. But the excuses can still pour forward from reluctant riders -- "I don't want my bike to get stolen while
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United Arab Emirate's Reliance on Desalination Spells Water Disaster
For the UAE, water hasn't been much of a problem so long as there is plenty of oil. With the wealth that oil provides,
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MIT Plan to Slash Energy Consumption on Campus Could Save $50 Million
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is partnering with
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Nokia Unveils Eco Profiles of Every Device, and Bike-Powered Cell Phone Charger
Nokia holds a proud ranking of one of the greenest tech companies around, applauded by everyone from Greenpeace to Dow Jones. The company has earned the accolades with tough standards fro green, and they've just released two green
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PepsiCo Using Potatoes to Run UK Chip Factories
What are potato chips? They're slices of potatoes with the majority of the water taken out (and in most cases, a lot of oil added in). What happens to all the water - around 80% of a potato? Well, for four potato chip
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First Synthetic, Self-Replicating Cell Created with Manmade DNA
If you thought cloning was a big deal, you might want to sit down before reading this. We've gotten so far in trying to create life that scientists have actually been able to create life from technology alone. Calling this "the first self-replicating
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A Belt Becomes The Most Minimal of Minimalist Chairs
Talk about trimming down on materials used for chairs and seating. Designer Alejandro Aravena took a piece of old know-how - simply using a strap wrapped around your knees and back and using that to balance weight - and designed a
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Rick Fedrizzi of USGBC on the Sustainable Wood Rating Debate
Rick Fedrizzi (right) with Brad Pitt TreeHugger has been covering the intense discussion at the US Green Building Council over the treatment of sustainably harvested wood in the LEED rating system (see Rumble in the Lumberyard). Rick Fedrizzi,
