Q: Can earthquake energy be harnessed for power, particularly in places like Japan? Also, how can Japan, so vulnerable to earthquakes, even have nuclear power? While it is no doubt theoretically possible to generate electricity by harnessing the kinetic energy of shifting tectonic plates below the Earth’s crust, pulling it off from a practical standpoint [...]
Regardless of what you are looking for in a home, here are 5 small, cool and green living environments you might enjoy checking out. There used to be 19 mountaintop glaciers in Colombia. Thanks mainly to global warming, there are now only six. And because these remaining ice caps are losing 3 percent to 5 [...]
Tim Bennett, middle-class white guy, started waking up to the global environmental nightmare in the mid-1980s. But life was so busy with raising kids and pursuing the American dream that he never got around to acting on his concerns. Until now”¦ Bennett journeys from complacency to consciousness in his feature-length documentary, What a Way To [...]
If we do not collectively raise our voices, force ourselves to be heard over the din, and start forcing progress rather than just talking to each other in comfortable little circles, we are taking millions of years of evolutionary development straight to the end and right over a cliff in record time. As the end [...]
Q: I understand that fast-food giant YUM! Brands, owner of KFC, is under fire by Greenpeace and others for rainforest destruction. What’s the story? YUM! Brands, which operates 38,000 fast food restaurants in 110 countries (including not only KFC but also Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, WingStreet, A&W and Long John Silver’s), has come under fire [...]
URGENT – Please read. The federal Food and Drug Administration’ new sunscreen rules seem likely to do away with the worst hype in ads and on labels. But the rules issued June 14, to take effect in the summer of 2012, address what’s on the outside of the bottle, not what’s in it. A particularly [...]
Planning a trip in your RV to New Mexico anytime soon? If so, you may want to check out the Santa Fe Skies RV Park, a 98-site, full-service RV facility which is powered by — wait for it — solar power! A family built, owned and operated park, it sits on 17 acres overlooking New [...]
