Living next to a park or a green area for all the wonderful sights and smells is not the only benefit anymore. In a recent study conducted by Dr. Richard Mitchell of the University of Glasgow, it seems that living in the presence of green spaces can have a positive impact on your health and health-related behaviors.
Green Car Journal announced its list for the top 5 greenest cars for the upcoming 2009 year car models. These 5 cars were identified by the editors of the magazines as the top green autos to be available on the market.
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Compact Fluorescent Lamps, commonly referred to Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs or CFL bulbs, have become a popular alternative to traditional incandescent light bulbs. They not only provide you with a energy savings but they can provide a whiter light than incandescent lamps.
When you want to more commercial quality printing or bulk printing, you can buy from environmentally friendly printing companies without sacrificing quality or price.
Renewable energy has started to really pick over the past few decades. With the high growth in the research and development of these new alternative sources of energy, there will be a need for more scientist, researchers, machine works and various other jobs.
A energy saving calculator that computes the kWH and cost values for a particular electronic device by inputting the watts and time used.
An article that looks into how much energy our computers use and ways to save money on cutting their energy usage.
The Canadian government would like to issue green bonds in order to help the growth of alternative energy.
Now there is prototype of a tree house that could revolutionize the home building process. This new green home is called the Fab Tree Hab and was created by three architects of out MIT.
Bambu has a range of bamboo made products including plates, utensils, cutting boards and even cutlery. All of their products are made from bamboo organic, meaning that is sustainably harvested and free of fertilizers or pesticides.
I found an interesting company called GlobalGiving that is trying to help promote green projects throughout the world. They have created a site called GlobalGiving Green that aims to connect people to make donations with small community projects in rural parts of the world.
Environmental news for the week of August 7th.
A concept that has been getting popular as computer get faster and have large hard drives is virtualization. The basic idea behind virtualization is that a virtual computer can take up part of an existing computer and have no knowledge of other possible virtual computers on the same machine.
I put together some ideas that could save you or you company money while being a little more environmentally friendly.
Stephen Johnson, the head of the EPA administration, visited a small community in Massachusetts called Hull. This community has built two wind turbines to meet some of their energy needs in clean way.
With all the talk about moving our country to alternative forms of energy, it made me wonder if there were ways I could help move this process along a little faster. I am currently invested in a variety of mutual funds, but many of them only invest extremely small shares in companies that are pushing for alternative sources of energy.
Hydrogen is still a young technology for use in cars with fuel cell engines. The U.S. Postal Service and GM are teaming up to begin delivering mail in hydrogen powered fuel-cell vehicles.
I shop in bulk all the time because it saves me tons of money. I buy large quantities of foods and household items that I use all the time to save money and reduce the number of times I have to take a trip to the store.
I promised everybody an update on the status of T. Boone Pickens and his plan. The latest news is that T. Boone Pickens met with the the U.S. Senate Homeland and Security and Government Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
The Aptera Typ-1 is new concept vehicle being made by the California based company Aptera. It’s actually a vehicle, not a car and technically classified as a motorcycle.
Environmental News for the Week of July 24th.
With all the cleaning products available, how do you know which ones to use in your household. There are many people that have small children that should not be exposed to harmful cleaners, especially at such a young age. There are other solutions than buying harmful cleaning products. Make you own.
The article will be geared towards answering the following two questions: does buying locally promote green lifestyle and most importantly, will it save me money over buying produce from the grocery store?
Whereis, an online mapping website, has team up with Greenfleet to reduce the carbon emissions produced by Australian drivers in a campaign called The GreenRoad. This campaign was started in order to offset the CO2 emissions from up to 200km or 125 miles of a trip you take. I wanted to find out a little more background information about this campaign and try it out for myself.
Discusses in-detail exactly how much water and money you can save by taking a shorter shower.
T. Boone Pickens is an American entrepreneur that founded Mesa Petroleum. Since then, he has founded BP Capital Management, that runs the BP Capital Energy fund that owns large portions in top oil companies. He has a national tv campaign to promote his alternate energy plan to help reduce our dependency on foreign oil.
