On Tuesday night, at Washington University in St. Louis, a coal industry executive took on an environmental activist in a moderated debate.
Fred Palmer, the senior vice president of government relations at Peabody Energy, argued in favor of a coal-powered world, and Bruce Nilles, the director of the Beyond Coal Campaign for the Sierra Club, argued against it.
It's April, the fourth month of the year, so it's time for Step Four in Simple Steps' 12-step Lose 10 Tons in 2010 plan - a plan designed to help each of us curb our energy addiction and reduce our environmental footprint.
Step One was about getting a home energy audit. Step Two was about insulation. Step Three was about the heat-creating machine that lives in the basement. And Step Four is about getting to work a bit differently:
The clean energy and climate legislation so vital to our country has been temporarily delayed. We need to get it back on track. We can’t afford to lose any more time.
Americans want action on legislation that will create jobs, cut our oil imports in half and reduce the carbon pollution that threatens us all.
According a segment on Thursday's NBC Nightly News, Google is a believer in low-tech landscaping. Instead of using gas-powered machines to manage the grass and brush that grow in the fields that surround their Silicon Valley headquarters, they use goats.
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The toothbrush, in various forms, has long been well-regarded as the best tool for a healthy mouth. What to use with it, however, is a more complicated, at times toxic, tale.
The first recorded suggestion is from fourth-century Egypt, when a scribe wrote that a mixture of rock salt, mint, dried iris flower, and pepper formed a "powder for white and perfect teeth."
The LED Saving Solutions road show team had a great trip to Washington.
On a daily basis, driving your car has one of the biggest impacts on the environment. The good news is that thanks in large part to strong fuel economy and pollution standards, automakers are finally putting their clean car programs in high gear. We expect over the next year or two, just about every major automaker to have at least electric vehicle in their lineup, such as the Chevy Volt plug in hybrid electric vehicle and the Nissan Leaf pure electric vehicle. Clean, efficient cars are the future of the auto industry and will reduce drivers fuel bills, cut pollution and help end our oil dependency.
Virginia Tech and WVU researchers have found a connection between the ecological health of Appalachian streams and cancer deaths in the region. (Hat tip to Ken Ward, Jr. at the Charleston Gazette.)
Published in the journal EcoHealth this month, the first-of-its kind study analyzed relationships between a measure of stream health based on the presence and distribution of small freshwater creatures, cancer mortality rates, and factors such as poverty and smoking.
Vice President Joe Biden kicked off five days of Earth Day events today with the announcement that 25 communities have been selected for up to $452 million in Recovery Act funding to “ramp-up” energy efficiency building retrofits as part of the Department of Energy’s “Ramp-Up” Initiative goals. The White House pointed out that retrofit models developed will save individuals and businesses roughly $100 million annually in utility bills, generating 30,000 jobs over three years.
The best week of the year continues for LED Saving Solutions....
1. We had a really good time today at the PhillyMagnet Career Fair. It was great to meet the people that came to see our presentation. And it was especially exciting to see how much people wanted to talk about green jobs and job training and The Eco Academy.
