Photo via: WikiVisual . Guest blogger Sara Snow is a green lifestyle expert and board member for Discovery’s 24/7 future-forward network Planet Green. About a year ago the Chief Scientist at The Organic Center (a national organization for which...
Photo via Free Photo Well, that didn’t take long. After global emissions stalled following the worldwide recession around 2008– even falling in some otherwise heavily polluting nations like the US of A–it looks like everyone can rest...
Photo: Flickr , CC “Today we flare enough natural gas to power Germany” Oak Ridge National Laboratory estimated in 2005 that about 0.5% of all CO2 emissions from fossil fuels came from natural gas flaring. The most shocking thing about this...
Photo: Ford It’s Also More Powerful and Has Optional All-Wheel Drive On Friday, Ford unveiled its new purpose-built Police Interceptor car. It has a bunch of useful features for law-enforcement agencies, including better safety characteristics...
Photo: ClearLite Safer CFLs: Why Didn’t Someone Think of This Sooner? By now just, about everybody knows that compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) contain some mercury (about 5 milligrams). It’s still less mercury than would be emitted by...
photo: Adam via flickr. Frankly this seems a bit like a combination of deja vu and rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking ship, but the Natural Resources Defense Council has released new analysis calculating what all the simple, inexpensive lifestyle...
photo: Tambako the Jaguar via flickr. Since it’s the Year of the Tiger by the Chinese calendar and the UN Year of Biodiversity, the whole internet seems to have gone tiger crazy. Not without reason, truth be told. By a number of estimates, wild...
Screenshot via youtube video German company Bundesdruckerei showed off what it is calling the world’s first e-passport equipped with an AMOLED display at CeBIT 2010. It could be the future of airport security, ditching paper passports for one driver’s...
Screenshot via youtube video German company Bundesdruckerei showed off what it is calling the world’s first e-passport equipped with an AMOLED display at CeBIT 2010. It could be the future of airport security, ditching paper passports for one driver’s...


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