Jurdy: Catching forty (green) winks
Jurdy finds fighting green fatigue is, well, tiring …
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10 eco-building innovations: plug-in floors, giant bunnies and flying hostels
Green building is in, and it’s astounding how many innovative and eco-friendly designers are out there. Here are my
Cheers and jeers for UK transport plans
As environmental groups decry today’s OK for a third runway at Heathrow airport, others are cheering accompanying decisions — including
Study: emerging economies more eager to act on global warming
We’ve all heard plenty about how people in developing countries are eager to catch up to the developed-nation lifestyle:
Online gaming could cut world energy consumption
Now here’s a novel energy-saving idea that just might work brilliantly: making efficiency improvements the object of a massive
Paper: solar industry not as clean as it needs to be
Hmm, it seems as though kicking this fossil fuel habit through renewables isn’t so straightforward after all: right on
Try the CD cases, hold the soy sauce
As if the food-versus-fuel debate weren’t enough already, along comes some new fodder for a potential food-versus-plastics debate: Victor
Home wind energy claims often just hot air, study finds
Done right, home-based wind turbines can be an effective way to produce energy and reduce your carbon footprint. Sadly, though,
You may all now Google without guilt
More head-spinning updates on the “Google searches are melting the planet” brouhaha: the research that reportedly found two Google searches
New biofuel plants tap corn cobs, old power poles
Hmmm, let’s see … we’ve tapped corn, algae and sugarcane for biofuels. What’s next? How about corn cobs
Toyota says the "P" word (as in "peak oil")
Plug-in and hybrid vehicles are taking center stage at this week’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit, and
Stanford starts new, $100 million energy institute
Stanford University announced this week that it’s establishing a new institute to focus solely on energy issues. The Precourt