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Take the recycling pledge! |
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 Have you done your recycling today? Why not take the pledge and do more?
This year marks the 10th anniversary of this nationally recognized day dedicated to encouraging the world to recycle and to buy recycled products.
Twenty years ago there were only 1,000 curbside programs in the U.S. today there are more than 10,000.
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Energy Without Oil |
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 AWARD-WINNING HOME DESIGN REQUIRES NO HEATING OR COOLING. Even for treehuggers, the idea of home without any kind of heating or cooling system -- no furnace, air conditioner, swamp cooler or heat pump -- might seem a bit primitive. |
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FLICK OFF: New Website Promoting Conservation |
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 Richard is on the way to Nunavut to go sledding and "witness first-hand the dramatic impact of global warming", but stopped in Toronto to crap all over the Government's new environmental plans as being too little and way too late, and to launch FLICK OFF, a new conservation campaign with a provocative name and a certain style of writing. Their plan: |
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How To Green Your Electronics |
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 WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?
Yes, electronic devices are becoming a bigger and bigger part of our lives, especially as they get smaller and smaller. We use them as tools and toys to communicate, work, enjoy media, and be expressive. Being green with electronics doesn’t mean living in a teepee listening to truckers squalk on the old short-wave. Greening your electronics is a matter of knowing what tech to get, how to use it best, and what to do with it when its useful life is done. Many of these best practices aren’t things you’ll read in the instruction manual, either. In this guide we’ll tell you how to stop wasted energy, what gizmos are greener than others, and what to do about e-waste and electronics recycling. We’ll also show you some of the newest green gadgets coming over the horizon.
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10 Ways to Go Green and Save Green |
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 How can we live lightly on the Earth and save money at the same time? In honor of Earth Day 2007, the Worldwatch Institute teams up with the Washington, D.C. members of SustainUS, the U.S. youth network for sustainable development, to share some ideas on how to go green and save green at home and at work. |
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Better treatment of animals could help combat climate change, pandemics |
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 The threat posed by climate change has people focused on how they heat their homes, drive their cars and use fossil fuels. How about another look at the food on their tables? Dr. Michael Appleby, animal welfare policy advisor for the World Society for Protection of Animals (WSPA), says better treatment of farm animals could help combat some of the most... |
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Change Your Driving Habits (and Save Gas!) |
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 What we are suggesting is a change of attitude, a change that you will like for a number of reasons that we will point out. Here are our tips for a new outlook on the road ahead. |
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Why Your Grandma Gets Better Gas Mileage Than You |
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 Posted by Brian Carr
Have you ever been told that you drive like a grandma? If so, good for you! If not, after reading this, you might want to change your ways. At first glance this should seem like an insult, however, I fully believe it should be taken as a compliment. What “you drive like a grandma” really means is that you’re a cautious driver that gets the most out of your vehicle’s gas mileage. However, for those of you who drive like speed demons, here are the top five reasons why your grandma gets better gas mileage than you: |
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The Coming Decline of Oil |
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Oil has shaped our twenty-first century civilization, affecting every facet of the economy from the mechanization of agriculture to jet air travel. When production turns downward, it will be a seismic economic event, creating a world unlike any we have known during our lifetimes. Indeed, when historians write about this period in history, |
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