Today President Obama announced that folks from various and industry groups are backing him up on his plan to reduce greenhouse gases and improve automobile fuel efficiency. (more…)
Sooner or later I had to write about Korea—I lived there in the mid-1990s and every time I return, I’m amazed at all the changes. (more…)
Constellation Energy’s CEO Mayo Shattuck just sent out a statement that the Baltimore-based corporation, which operates about 35 power plants in 11 states, is supporting the House’s climate change bill. (more…)
Every day I check the green tech news feeds and the biggest boldest headline today was titled, “US Lawmakers Formally Unveil Climate Change Bill.” I haven’t read it yet—I’ve been following the debate, and I’m fearful of what the bill will say. Overall, I tend to side with the Democrats on the environmental issues, but [...]
Rep. Ron Paul of Texas recently introduced another bill in Congress (with Barney Frank, of all folks!) to allow farmers to cultivate legally industrial hemp. It’s about time! Decades ago, Congress banned the production of hemp in its incremental war on drugs—one of the more ill-thought changes in public policy this country has weathered. (more…)
I hate plastic. It’s kind of like saying “I hate air” as it’s all around you. I’m the one who will take a plastic fork home, run it through the dishwasher with all the rest of my plates and cookware, and reuse it a few more times out of guilt. Yes, supposedly plastic is recyclable [...]
When we think about being green, we often conjure recycling, riding our bike to work, shopping at Whole Foods, or climbing a tree to save a community garden like Daryl Hannah, who has had nothing better do to since her role in 1989’s Steel Magnolias. Okay, I’m being facetious here, but you get the picture. [...]
Oil companies are easy targets. Well, first of all they are big, we see their logos everywhere, and we can picture folks like Dick Cheney and his cronies in an underground secret conference room, plotting to pollute the world while lining their pockets, laughing like Heath Ledger’s Joker while they conspire to sabotage any new [...]
Yet another friend with whom I’ve re-connected on Facebook asked me, as if I hadn’t heard this before, if I know that Los Angeles is the smoggiest city in the country. True, at face value, LA is about as green as the lead paint on the hamburger joint down the street from our home in [...]
Green is the new black—hip, cool, sleek. To some it may be the new blue—depressing if you read about the continuing trends in global warming, pollution, and environmental damage our lifestyle are creating in the world. I guess to some it’s the new red—if you’re to believe the price tag that all of these newfangled [...]