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What Is The Real Cost Of Bottled Water?
Image from tskdesign As John McCain and Hillary Clinton tell Americans tales of a gas tax holiday to relieve us of a whole 20 cents per gallon this summer (we’re paying more than four dollars anyway) it’s probably worth discussing one of the other reasons that gas is [...]
Continue reading...3. May 2008
America’s Most Pedestrianized Cities
Image from ckaroli There’s no denying it – by 2025, it is estimated that there will be over a billion cars on this big blue marble we all love so dearly.
Continue reading...2. May 2008
Alaskan Capital Cuts Power Consumption By 40%
Image from markcbrennan There’s a program in the U.S. called Energy Star– it certifies homes and appliances for cutting their energy consumption anywhere from 15 to 40%. I don’t think they expected it, but we may have found the first entire city that qualifies: Juneau, Alaska, [...]
Continue reading...2. May 2008
Greenwashing To The Max? The Eco-Friendly Private Jet
Image from moaksey It’s a cliché… almost. A celebrity criticizes the way that the rest of us impact the environment by living in 500 square foot apartments and driving a car that we wish somebody would steal, and then flies off to some exotic location in a private [...]
Continue reading...25. April 2008
Fill Your Car For $5
I imagine that our readers in the UK are giggling furiously at the American panic over gas prices this year as we finally begin to think about paying what those of you in the old world have been for years. It just looks like a place with cheap [...]
Continue reading...24. April 2008
The 5 Best Mass Transit Systems in the World
As we all put our thinking caps on for this “save the environment” thing, and Americans begin to scream under the weight of rising fuel costs, one of the best ways around leaving a giant carbon footprint, or paying an arm and a leg, is to take [...]
Continue reading...24. April 2008
Freecycling: Get Your Very Own Trailer
This opportunity is too good to pass up. This supercool blog is giving away a caravan (trailer home in the US) to the first person who can collect it! Not like this. Way nicer, as it happens. Image from asmundur
Continue reading...22. April 2008
The Origins Of Earth Day
Ah, Earth Day. Annually marked on the 22nd of every April, unless you work for HOK, in which case it’s Go Barefoot Day. But close enough. Image from Charming Milo How did this holiday, which usually only gets play with people like the EG staff and elementary schools, [...]
Continue reading...22. April 2008
PETA’s Meat: Worst. Meat. Evar?
Oh dear, not PETA again… Image from Flickr This time, they are not doing one of their usual stunts. Interestingly, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have announced an ambitious competition and prize,
Continue reading...22. April 2008
Ben Ray: Why “An Inconvenient Truth” Didn’t Actually Accomplish Anything
Allow us to present the best reason imaginable to take action on Earth Day. Instead of merely attempting to raise awareness: the single biggest contribution to the climate change debate, “An Inconvenient Truth,” did that well, shouldn’t it be time to go further? Crud. Image from bulldog1 Since [...]
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4. May 2008
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