Tag: Massachusetts - Page 4
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Ask TreeHugger: Leave Your Shoes at the Door
Response: In the olden days (as my kids call them),
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Warming Temperatures Stunt Autumn Leaf Colors
Tourists and residents in New England used to receive a spectacular display of color on the second October of every year. However, in recent years, the show has been a bit duller and a bit later than usual. The culprit? What else - area temperatures
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Ask TreeHugger: Do Cell Phones Give You a Headache?
Response: It is possible that talking on your cell phone is giving you a headache, but
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Super-Thin Solar Cells Developed for Nanoelectronics
Just when you thought scientists had developed the smallest solar cells yet, they have to go and "up" the notch again with an even smaller model. Case in point is the latest solar cell from a team of chemists at Harvard University - coming in at a
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Nanostructured Fibers Could Make Military Uniforms Portable Batteries
As the risks and rigors of ground-based combat continue to rise - testament to ever-evolving battlefield strategies and new, more advanced technologies - military officials have placed a greater onus on developing smaller, portable and more integrated
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Helping the Manatees Help Themselves
Listed as an endangered species in 1966, manatees have long had an uneasy coexistence with the increasing number of commercial and recreational boats that have invaded their habitats. In Florida's waters alone, scientists from the Fish and Wildlife
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Ask TreeHugger: Does An Organic Diet Matter?
Response: Yes, with
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Brockton, Massachusetts Adopts Solar Initiatives
About a half hour south of Boston is the city of Brockton, Mass. with just under 100,000 residents. Once known as an industrial hub and dependent on manufacturing, the city has recently gone through some tough times with the economy. But here in New
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Eco-Friendly Yoga Mats for Kids
Pint-size (or petite-adult) yogis and yoginis can now tote around yoga mats scaled down to their vertically challenged measurements.
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State Of The Day: Massachusetts
With the US Congress still making no real progress with energy and climate issues, the US States are in a clear lead. Yesterday we mentioned the coal vs wind debate in Pennsylvania. Today's State Of The Day is Massachusetts, which, leveraging the just
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Working on the ChainJ Gang: Pedro's Canola Lube
It's a good couple of years since we last took a peek at Pedro's environmental bike care products. And we're pleased to see they haven't been resting on their laurels. Earlier this year they were named in Bicycle Retailer and Industry News as
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Noble Home: Mid-Century Modern Green Prefab
Nobody draws anymore, we all use computers. I can't conceive of setting up a perspective by hand, that's why we have Sketchup. Thus I was immediately attracted to the Noble Home prefab, with its seductive mid-century modern drawings. The designs by
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Breeding the Ultimate Chestnut Tree
Searching for the "holy grail" in American chestnut trees? Then look no further than Meadowview, VA — where a 93-acre plot may hold the future of the once ubiquitous chestnut tree. The last century has been a rough one for the majestic tree: an
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PowerPod: Small Green Prefabs from a New PowerHouse
Powerhouse is a new name to us in the green prefab biz; the Lawrence, MA company's President Quincy Vale previously was involved in the Massachusetts Green Buildings Program, and its design principal , John Rossi, is LEED accredited, so they have
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Solar Powered WiFi Bionic Turtles Lurking in Swamp
There is the internet, the slower sneakernet, and now we have the turtlenet. Scientists from the University of Massachusetts were trying to figure out how to track snapping turtles and figure out how they are coping with loss of habitat and other
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Burn, Baby, Burn? Making Plastic Fire-Proof
For anybody who's ever had to endure the smell of burning plastic for even a few minutes, this next bit of news will come as a welcome development. A group of scientists from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, have just created a new synthetic
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Be Green with Envi in Boston, Mass.
Last week, a new eco-boutique opened in Boston. Envi is located right on on our fave, Newbury Street, and includes some of our much loved designers like Del Forte Denim, Stewart + Brown, Ecoganik and Twice Shy. Callie Smith and Ursula Stahl, owners of
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Massachusetts To Perform Life Cycle Planning Reviews For Climate Impacts
Anyone who has had involvement with municipal zoning and planning, or been in the real estate development business for that matter (architects included), will instantly recognize the importance of what the State of Massachusetts (USA) is proposing to do
