Thousands Tell Amazon to Ban Sales of Dolphin and Whale Meat Recently, the news broke that a site owned by Amazon.com, Amazon.jp in Japan, was illegally selling whale meat. The massive public outrage in response caused Amazon to remove the items from their site. Do you want to help force Amazon to ban this practice? … [Read more…]
Brandwashed: How Companies Convince You to Buy Crap Want to shop less and live more? Maybe reading about how companies entice you to buy stuff you don’t need will help you avoid their pull. Martin Lindstrom’s book “Brandwashed” could help you do just that. Martin, a guy often hired by major companies to convince people … [Read more…]
Anyone who is considering traveling to Austria and surrounding European countries, should consider travelling with a Eurail Pass as the CO2 emissions are “about 3 times less per person than travelling the same route by car and 4 times less than by plane” (Eu Rail, 2012).
eBay’s Desert Data Center Gets Into Hot Water How do you keep a data center cool in the middle of the desert, in a cost-effective and energy-efficient manner? It turns out that you can use hot water to keep server rooms cool, as eBay’s Phoenix data center illustrates. Survey Shows More Americans Believe Climate Change … [Read more…]
VICTORY: Midwest Generation and GenOn Announce Coal Plant Closures Today, Midwest Generation announced that they will be closing their two dirty coal plants in Chicago, the Fisk coal plant in Pilsen will shut down in 2012 and the Crawford coal plant in Little Village will shut down by 2014. As if this wasn’t enough good … [Read more…]
Terraced Hollywood Hills House Eliminates the Need for Air Conditioning Sunken into the hill itself, the four-story home makes use of the earth for temperature moderation. The home’s earth berming, orientation, shading, and use of natural ventilation completely eliminates the need for air conditioning. 9th Century Arabic Texts Yield Clues for Climate Change Scientists When … [Read more…]
Why ’smart’ office window shades need to be redesigned Statistics on the effectiveness of automated office window blinds are certainly encouraging: when used, they can help shave lighting bills by 40 percent. But some stats on workers’ happiness with such systems are startlingly discouraging. “Power Felt” Uses Your Own Body Heat to Charge Your Cellphone … [Read more…]
The best of the U.S. Army’s ‘Going Green’ Pinterest For those of you who are out of touch with what the young people and Mormons are all about these days, Pinterest is this really big, Facebook-but-for-images type thing, and it’s kind of wild that the Army is on it, because it’s mostly pictures of cats, … [Read more…]
400 stars. When looking up at a clear night’s sky, 400 hardly seems like a number to begin to describe anything remotely significant up above. But when it comes to the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA), 400 is quite a big number.
How to Identify a Green Cleaner & Giveaway! In a perfect world, perhaps we would all make our own household cleaners from vinegar, baking soda, soap, hydrogen peroxide, lemon juice, salt, tea tree oil and other essential oils, etc. However, I still find myself relying on the convenience of store-bought cleaners on a regular basis, … [Read more…]