Green Blog

We’re all focused on green these days not only how to make “green” but how to live a lifestyle that’s good for us and the planet.

The Ecological Footprint concept, first introduced 15 years ago, provides an interesting way of looking at consumption. Consumption of the full range of bioresources - from grain, beef cattle, and fish, to peat and timber - is converted to a measure of the land and water surface area required to support that consumption, as well as disposal of wastes.

Few seem willing to address the issue openly, but one of the toughest issues to address when delegates gather in Copenhagen in December for the global conference on climate change will be governance. Many developing nations attending have stressed and under-funded civil systems.

A nonprofit environmental research organization released results last week on over 900 common products tested for toxic chemicals including lead, cadmium, mercury, bromine, chlorine (PVC) and arsenic.

Foraging wild foods for the dinner table is a fun way to reconnect with the landscape and eat well at the same time. But most people are concerned they might mistakenly eat something inedible or even poisonous.

President Hu Jintao of China has just unveiled before the world a new set of actions that China will undertake to curb their global warming pollution. The remarks were made today as a part of the UN Secretary General's high-level summit on global warming.

One of the casualties of the recession has been that some decent urban development, the kind that we want to buttress cities and support more environmentally benign living patterns, has been put on hold.

About 4 years ago I started noticing that flat panel, big screen TVs started to pop up almost everywhere I went. Places like the hotel lobby, the fitness center, restaurants, at the airport and increasingly in our friends' homes. Also overnight, the size of TVs seemed to almost double.

As we all know, a tremendous amount of federal dollars has been allotted to communities through the stimulus package for weatherization. As a construction trades teacher, I began to wonder why this money was specifically set aside and how do I teach these skills to my students, so that they can benefit from this emerging career area.

Germany, the birthplace of Volkswagen, Porsche, and BMW, plans to become a global leader for developing low-carbon vehicles.