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We recently wrote about the New York Times blog post by Stanley Fish, who didn’t want wind turbines near his summer home in New York.
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a short, four paragraph editorial that writes off wind power as a “bit player” even as it criticizes the Kennedys for opposing a wind farm near [...]
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Energy efficiency isn’t just a feel good story about “helping the planet.” It’s also all about saving money and reducing expenses. Who doesn’t like that?
Indeed, businesses are learning how increasing energy efficiency can cut costs and help the bottom line, according to this article in the Wall Street Journal.
Now, with oil, gas and electricity prices [...]
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If you want to read a depressing account of China and the environment, look no further than this long, comprehensive New York Times article about the toll that China’s industrialization is taking.
There are so many astounding facts that it’s hard to choose what to quote from the story, so I’ll just make a [...]
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Stanley Fish attacks wind power on his New York Times blog, when the possibility arose that developers were going to install wind turbines near his summer home in Andes, NY.
Like many of the other towns targeted by the wind turbine industry, Andes is a rural community that over the years has lost its economic base. At [...]
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I love gadgets that do two or more practical and environmental things at once. Thus, I present to you a gadget that cools your home while it heats your pool. News.com reports,
SolarAttic sells a system–the Pool Convection System 2–that sucks hot air out of the attic of your house and pumps it [...]
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Today’s Wall Street Journal covers a common weed / shrub in India that is taking off as a source of biodiesel. It has the advantage of being able to grow just about anywhere, and it doesn’t really need much or any fertilizer or watering. It’s also inedible, so you aren’t growing a food crop just [...]
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I’ve written before about our green building renovation project for Clean Air Gardening. We purchased a commercial building that was built in the 1960s, and we are making the building more environmentally friendly, shooting for LEED green building certification.
Indoor air quality is an important aspect of making a building more environmentally friendly. So we chose [...]
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I helped my brother move into a new house a couple weeks ago. It was a chore, and hopefully most people only move a few times in their lives. During the move I got to thinking about trying to reduce all that waste from cardboard boxes and such.
I present one of my finds: [...]
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Review of the book Fossil Treasures of the Anza-Borrego Desert, the Last Seven Million Years, edited by George T. Jefferson and Lowell Lindsay
With all the concern these days about global warming, one only needs to pick up a book of paleontology to see how radically this planet can change in climate and environment through the [...]
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Here’s an electric automobile company I’d never heard of. The Miles Automotive Group. They’re working on introducing an all electric sedan in the United States in 2008.
They already have a vehicle that is approved and street legal in the US as a Low Speed Vehicle (because it has a top speed of 25 mph). See the [...]
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