Category: Green news

After a Nor’easter yesterday that wasn’t, I believe this article. Less snowfall, spring-like temperatures, signs of green. Every year that I’ve been in the Northeast, winter seems to get milder and milder. We had 60 degree weather last week. So I was disappointed when we didn’t get a snow day. Maybe this Thursday’s coming storm…

Heading out to LA? Check out this Political Cortex article on rental cars in Los Angeles. I love the writer’s stories about their experiences using electric and hybrid cars, and from the sound of it, they didn’t experience any hiccups with the vehicles at all.

Apparently, car manufacturers know how to build green vehicles, but they just don’t know how receptive people will be to them, plus they’re overwhelmed by all the expenses involved in making their cars eco-friendly. This article tells us more about this matter. I don’t know, but I think that eco-friendly cars will appeal to a…

Last week, the Environment Summit was held in Southern Leyte, where Philippine government agencies and officials discussed how best to balance development and environmental protection. The best part is the Department of Environment and Natural Resources got such a well-deserved chewing-out from Representative Roger Mercado. This is the agency that is supposed to be protecting…

The Guardian has a pretty solid and informative Environment news section right now, but they’re out to become even better. They’re looking for a website editor to oversee the section’s revamp, and they need an inventive, organised journalist with a track record in the subject with proven experience of editing on or running a website….

I get to vote here in the U.S. for the first time this year. Read Grist to see how green the candidates are. Check out the candidates’ profiles here.

Who can resist eating a mouth-watering steak, a juicy piece of chicken or those tender pork chops? You can after you watch PETA’s “Meet Your Meat” or here via PETA TV. My friend’s e-mail came following at the heels of an officemate’s e-mail with a link to PETA’s “A Shocking Look Inside Chinese Fur Farms”…

Wanna see how much CO2 the world emits? Take a look at Breathing Earth and be stunned. It passes the time when you’re bored, but it’s a much more educational and eye-opening way to do it.

Don’t know what and where to recycle? Earth911 to the rescue! Here’s Ideal Bite’s recycling cheat sheet: You don’t need to remove labels from cans and bottles, but you do need to remove plastic caps (and throw them away). Your recyclables don’t need to be spotless – just not moldy or full of food. Save…

The U.K.’s Travelodge has come up with a new concept for a budget hotel that could change the face of traveling: a portable hotel. It will utilize shipping containers and will be a 120-room hotel. one in Uxbridge is already being constructed, while one near London’s Heathrow Airport is in the planning stage. Prefab is…