Category: Green news

On Earth Day 2007, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a plan for charging car drivers $8 and truck drivers $21 a day to enter Manhattan’s central business district from 6 am to 6 pm. The money collected would be used to improve public transportation and roadways. Congestion pricing, already in place in London,…

Your bank has probably sent you an e-mail urging you to sign up for e-statements. In fact, you probably signed up for it already. If not, look at it this way: it’s yet another way to do your share in taking care of our environment. You’ll help reduce paper waste.

A study conducted by Starwood Hotels and Resorts found that most people drop their eco-friendly habits when they are in a hotel. They want their beddings and towels changed daily and are more likely to keep the lights on. On a trip to Singapore in 2002, Lynn and I found out that because of its…

Some of you must have already heard about certain sites that offer benefits for their users just by surfing the Internet as usual, like pay-per-surf plans. I recently found out that there are new search engines which offer incentives to people if they just do online searches. Getting paid to search sounds like fun, but…

Support green companies. Isn’t it great that more and more companies are changing the way they do business? For the longest time, the environment was ignored or sacrificed in the pursuit for profit. Now, more and more businesses are trying to reduce their environmental impact by minimizing environmental waste, implementing green practices, lessening pollution, recycling,…

Someone mentioned to me today that studies say that producing ethanol or biodiesel uses up six times more fossil fuel energy units to produce one, thus defeating the purpose. I looked it up and found this article about a 2005 Cornell University and University of California Berkeley study that concluded the same thing. Critics say…

Did you know that if we recycled even a tenth of our papers, we’d save about 25 million trees per year? Here’s where your local library comes in. Libraries don’t loan books and periodicals only. Lots of them lend out videos and dvds, even console games. Save yourself some money. Stop building up your own…

I came across this blog post from The Green Guide. It references these two articles from the New York Times and Time Out New York. Very interesting reads. The TONY article humorously assesses Manhattanites’ ecological impact and assigns shades of lifestyle greenness from not green at all to puke green. The other article presents criticism…

Turn off the tap while lathering up in the shower, shaving,washing your hands and face. Use faucet aerators to maintain steady water pressure. Turn off the water while brushing your teeth. Use a glass of water to rinse your mouth. Rinse your dishes in a plugged sink rather than under running water. Thaw frozen foods…

Just checked out the tips at the sidebar right now and the one about mercury in CFLs grabbed my attention. The Green Guide answered a query expressing concern about the mercury content of CFLs and this is what they had to say: The amount of mercury in CFLs is relatively small, approximately 5 milligrams (mg),…