Category: Green news

California and 11 other states have adopted policies to reduce emissions from cars and SUVs. However, they need a Clean-Air Act waiver from the EPA, which has not made a decision in over a year. The auto industry understandably has been lobbying the EPA to deny these 12 states approval. The Supreme Court’s ruling that…

USA is fast food nation. It’s cheap and fast. It’s for people in a hurry. At the same time, fast food packaging contributes to waste. My suggestion? Pack your own lunch. You save money, plus you even eat healthy (unless you pack unhealthy stuff, of course). My husband and I pack our lunches. Just read…

I saw a feature of The GEO Farm on TV just last night and it sounds like it’s an interesting place to check out. They offer organic food, teach you about the benefits of such products, and you can stay there too. It’s a bit far away, but perhaps I can make the trip sometime….

…if it’s the kind that has to travel thousands of miles before it reaches your local store and your dinner table. A recent study shows that the food miles clocked in by organic produce and regular produce aren’t much different. Food miles are defined as the distance that food travels from the field to the…

Being near 40 and having all these cassette tapes that testify to prior poor judgment or bad taste in music, I want to get rid of the evidence. Natch. But I read that they are made from tensilized polyester which doesn’t fall into anyone of the recycling categories. Thrift shops might be able to take…

Okay, I’m seriously annoyed. I just found out that my car doesn’t take too kindly to unleaded gasoline. In case you didn’t know, leaded gasoline still isn’t phased out in our country. But what’s more annoying is that it’s a car released in 2000, and despite that, its engine wasn’t built for unleaded. Geez.

One thing I noticed here in the US is how easy it is for toys to accumulate. Toys are easy to give and easy to collect. However, kids do get tired of their toys, and outgrow them. It’s easier to throw them out, but then what happens to these toys? They end up in landfills….

I used to work in an office where I had to wear suits. Not only was it a nuisance having to constantly drop it off at the dry cleaners, turns out it was also not environment-friendly. So much for dressing for success. What are your options in lieu of dry cleaning? The Grinning Planet recommends…

In a few weeks, the U.S. Congress will vote on renewable sources of energy. Five senators, called the Fluttering Five by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, claim they haven’t heard from the public. PIRG is raising money to buy red,white and blue pinwheels (each representing 1.5 megawatt wind turbine enough to provide power to…

The municipality of Rodriguez, Rizal has jumpstarted an ambitious P1.5 billion project to extract methane gas from the Rodriguez landfill and churn out electricity enough to power 15,000 homes. In what could be the first of its kind in Asia, the “Rodriguez Landfill Methane Recovery and Electricity Generation Project” is projected to produce 15 megawatts…