Designing an eco-friendly or passive house from the bottom up may tickle your fancy, but it’s not your only option for living in a healthier home that makes a smaller impact on the environment. In fact, renovating and remodeling an older house is often the most environmentally friendly approach because it minimizes the waste generated by demolition and new construction. (more…)
GE Ecomagination Launch, Munich
Going green can have a significant impact on your brand and its bottom line. While there may be upfront costs to install new lights or other materials, the long-term savings from these changes will more than negate them. Let’s take a look at how you can reduce your office’s carbon footprint and make an impact on the community it operates in. (more…)
Here’s a meme that reminds us all of the unpredictable nature of life, or, better, how the future always looks like the past, until it looks like something completely different. (more…)
Everyone is concerned about the future of our environment, and rightly so. Landfills are filling up and some have even leaked dangerous chemicals to the surrounding landscape. Cost and time are often factors that bar some people from participating in protecting the future of our world, so let’s take a look at some modern techniques that will soon be used to help make saving the earth both simple and affordable. (more…)
Until recently, almost no one noticed the vast network of oil and gas pipelines that were being constructed on top of and just beneath the surface of the United States. Of course, all that’s changed recently with movements like Keep it in the Ground, The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal, and 350.org. Now, projects are beset with a deluge of protests and litigation that are meticulously coordinated efforts across multiple states. (more…)
While home remodeling can be an exciting and fun project, it also leaves a massive impact on the environment, especially if one decides to ignore the consequences. (more…)
I have a warm spot in my heart for Yale University, for their position as a rival of my alma mater (Trinity College) on the squash courts, as well as their involvement with one of my heroes in environmentalism, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 2002 to 2015, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize during his tenure. Dr. Pachauri granted me an interview in his office at Yale, which formed one of the chapters of my book “Renewable Energy–Following the Money.” (more…)
There are so many areas of our lives in which to reduce our effects on nature that it’s sometimes difficult to know where to start – and the simplest forms of reducing your carbon footprint get overlooked. Perhaps the simplest of all is being careful about the materials that you use and throw away, creating waste that itself has a carbon footprint, while also filling landfill unnecessarily. If you make a move to reduce waste, you’ll be joining millions of people worldwide who have decided to be conscious about their trash habits – you’ll find out just how easy it is to do in this article. (more…)
Evidently, a recently conducted survey found that California offers the worst quality of life in all 50 states. Of course, this is all over Fox News, as its viewers are dying for corroboration that liberals are suffering terribly, by means of their wanton disregard for America’s true values (assault weapons, Evangelical Christianity, homophobia, bigotry, etc.) (more…)
Warning sign, Salinas Valley, California, USA.
As the basis for the chapter on the use of litigation to protect our natural resources in my first book (Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies), I was lucky enough to interview Johanna Wald at the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) shortly before she retired. Johanna had been successfully using the court system for more than 35 years to force public and private entities to conform to laws that are in place to protect the people and the planet we call home. (more…)
