Why Changing Your Lightbulbs Doesn't Matter
OK, I'm officially sick of it. Let's stop talking about changing our world by changing your light bulbs. There are a few reasons why people tell you that switching from incandescents to CFLs should be done, and they're all crap reasons. I'm tired of it...
The Single Most Immediately Effective Thing You Can Do
Stay at the speed limit. Not a bit more or less. Stay at the posted limit and the gasoline...
Efficiency in our Transporation
Buy a Hybrid Car. Save 16,000 lbs. of CO2 and $3,750 per year.
You can get 50 miles to the ...
Green your festival
Music, grass and garbage. For too long, they have all been part of the summer festival exp...
How to Make Green Fashion an Everyday Choice
What do you do if you’re a marine biologist with an entrepreneurial streak who wan...
Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid’s Limits
When the builders of the Maple Ridge Wind farm spent $320 million to put nearly 200 wind turbines in upstate New York, the idea was to get paid for produ...
Researchers’ new algorithm significantly boosts routing efficiency of networks
A time-and-money-saving question shared by commuters in their cars and networks sharing ever-changing Internet resources is: “What’s the best way to get from here to ...
A 10% Drop in Gasoline Use Would do a lot of Good
On many occasions on this site I’ve stated that just slightly decreasing the amount of gasoline you use will add up over time and really make a difference, for both you...
Jack Johnson Has Eco Demands
And boy would this blogger meet them! Erm, nevermind. So we all know that
Jack Johnson
is a mega environmental warrior who
teams up with orgs
like the
Surfrider Foundation
, pu...
Carbon Neutral Buildings Now
by Michael Reynolds
Here in the early part of the twenty first century we find ourselves trying to react appropriately to the changing climate of the earth. W...
Is your kid the next Picasso?
Pablo-bly not, but you can still encourage your budding
artiste
to make masterpieces with nontoxic supplies like veggie-based paint...for art that screams like Munch but sm...
Growing Organic Lettuce
When attempting to grow any kind of organic produce, the first step is to make sure your soil is high quality. Organic lettuce requires a sandy or loamy (silt, sand, cl...
New Dimmable Bulbs Could Save Gigawatts
Written by Hank Green
Twenty-two percent of America's power is used to create light. But a well-kept secret is that over half of that light comes out of bulbs that you've ...
Retrofit Your Home/Office
Many people like where they live and what they live in. They can neither afford nor do they want to build a new home. How do we take what we have learned over the last thirty years and recycle or retrofit existing architecture?
We intend to provide a road map to sustainability that anyone can follow with help from local talent when necessary. The good thing about retrofit is that you can spread the costs out over many years while still living in your home.
Travel tips
A 10% Drop in Gasoline Use Would do a lot of Good - which is very easy to do - we would save 14.1 billion gallons of gas each year, and we would keep 2.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
- Poor alignment reduces fuel economy by 10%.
- Cean air filters improve gas mileage by 10%.
- Properly tuned engines improve mileage by 4%.
- Under-inflation of 7.5 lbs. reduces mileage by 2.8%.
- For every 5 mph slower, fuel consumption drops by 7%.
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