Photo via Whatson The so-called “conventional wisdom” has been pretty unremitting in deeming any sort of comprehensive energy reform legislation dead in the water this year. But that’s still not looking to be the case –some rather... 

Photo via Whatson The so-called “conventional wisdom” has been pretty unremitting in deeming any sort of comprehensive energy reform legislation dead in the water this year. But that’s still not looking to be the case –some rather... 

Image credit: Good Times are tough for everyone—including municipal governments. One are that has suffered from diminished budgets is public transport. Across the country, transit workers are losing their jobs, making it that much harder to maintain... 

Image credit: Grist Imagine a hot summer day in a town surrounded by glistening pools of water. Now imagine that no one is swimming—that they can’t because the water has been contaminated with a potentially dangerous, yet common, pollutant.... 

Image via Gizmodo If you’d like to know just when enough is enough in the shower, but you don’t want to go the route of a system that just shuts off the water and leaves you with soap in your eye, or worse, surrounds you in claustrophobia-inducing... 

Creating a tiered retaining wall to prevent erosion (L) and a permaculture plan for a demonstration farm (R) in Haiti. Photos via Permaculture Institute . When most people think of disaster relief efforts, meeting immediate needs — food, clean... 

Installing earth tubes at Aldo Leopold Center. Photo: from Renew magazine Dumb Roofs Renew magazine for Jan - Mar covers a lot of ground in its 106 pages on “technology for a sustainable future.” But for me the stand-out article covers a... 

Photo via Pink Sherbet Photography World Water Day is approaching (March 22, 2010 if you’d like to mark your calendar) and there’s no better time than now to start focusing more on the importance of water footprints. We’re already working... 

There are few appliances dumber than an electric hot water heater; it uses energy made from boiling water to run turbines to turn generators to be distributed over wires…to boil water again. The AirTap is a heat pump that improves the process somewhat,... 

Red tide off the coast of La Jolla, California. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons As Alexandrium fundyense algae floats and swims in the water, it divides repeatedly, eventually creating the toxic bloom commonly called “red tide.” In addition...