Hundreds gathered on Nob Hill last night for the kickoff event for the Ecocity 2008 World Summit, organized by Richard Register of Berkeley's Ecocity Builders.
Did you know you can charge up a spin-dryer using an exercise bike? You saw it first in Nimbin, reports Niamh Griffin. The average person looks at a bicycle and sees a way to get from one place to the next. Sure it does not use petrol or produce gases
The Sierra Club has partnered with Clorox on a new line of natural, non-petroleum-based cleaning products: Greenworks. We've said for years that sustainability shouldn't be a luxury for only the affluent, and Greenworks is the first line of
Sure the sheep poo the company collects is completely sterilized in a specially designed pressure cooker boiling at over 120 degrees centigrade. Sure it is then washed repeatedly over a period of days until the poo has lost approximately half its ...
It turns out that Snow White was a role model for saving the forest and Walt Disney was a secret environmentalist, inserting subliminal messages into his cartoons. Who knew? According to a recent book by two Cambridge academics, all those years of...
The Green Living Tips tree planting program assists communities throughout the world via Trees for the Future. Countries and regions receiving assistance including Honduras, Belize, Asia, India, the Philippines and Africa. For each visitor who signs..
The UK are making moves towards a 5p charge (10 cents) should the customer want a plastic bag. At such a low cost, I suggest that's further profit for the hypermarket and not conducive to behavioural change.
"There is no limit to waves, like winds, as a power source. It is suitable for a long voyage," the 68-year-old Hori said after taking the 9.5-metre (31-foot) vessel for a short test run in the Setouchi Inland Sea.
To complement the Scimitar engine, Reaction Engines has proposed a suitable vehicle configuration (A2) that attains the necessary subsonic and supersonic lift/drag ratio for efficient commercial operation. The airframe is designed to have adequat...
The Prince of Wales has called for a "war" on climate change warning that the world faced a catastrophe without a "revolutionary" approach to the threat.
Although the figures for 2007 indicate records sales for "organic" personal care products, the majority of those products were not certified under the USDA's National Organic Program.
