We’ve oohed and aahed at the Lifestraw, the cigar-sized personal point-of-use water filter produced by Vestergaard Frandsen. While it certainly has the potential to provide clean drinking water to a lot of people, a family of five would potentially need five Lifestraws to insure access to clean water. That’s why they de…
Original post by By TIM MCKEOUGH
This Saturday, starting at 7/6c, The Learning Channel (TLC) will air a special preview of Planet Green television. Episodes of Wa$ted and Greenovate will run back to back, whetting your appetite for June 4th when Discovery’s 24-7 green TV programming hits the airwaves. It will be just a sampling of the plethora of green goodness that Discovery will roll out this summer. …
Original post by By TIM MCKEOUGH
Volkswagon has developed, and is looking at possibly selling, a two-seat, three-wheeled, uh…car? The vehicle is pretty much 100% engine…though it’s so small that even a 1.6 liter engine pretty much fills up the 1,600 lb car.
As a concept I find it enticing. Of course, VW has focused on performance instead of the environment with this design. The little car (sans roof) will get you to sixty MPH in under six seconds. But, even with that exciting performance curve, the small engine and light weight makes the car far more efficient than its competitors at 46 MPG.
But if they gave this thing a Smart Car engine, it would likely get far beyond 60 MPG. The problem, of course, is that the car isn’t built to be practical…it’s built to be fun. And while I’m not gonna say I don’t want to drive one of these things, It’s not exactly green.
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Original post by Hank Green
TreeHugger is always on the lookout for sleek ways to do more with less; it’s a good thing any time you can, say, get six extra seats from a cube slightly larger than one cubic foot. That’s the idea behind Japanese designer Naho Matsuno’s Cube 6, an ingenious construction that fits six stools into a diminutive cube just bigger than a foot (35 cm) each way. Dinner party time? Bring out the cube! Party’s over? Put the cube away; no need for a whole dining room to store a full set of full-size chairs. Matsuno showed the design in the Salone Satellite at the recently-concluded Milan Furniture Fair; like
Original post by Hank Green
Science is science…right? EcoGeeks should be allowed to perform their duties to {digg}http://digg.com/environment/Report_EPA_Heavily_Pressured_into_Bias_by_Bush_Admin{/digg}the best of their abilities. Even if they happen to work for a government that doesn’t particularly love truth, they shouldn’t feel any obligation to alter their studies or misrepresent their data. That’s just not SCIENCE!
Well, throw away those notions folks…the Union of Concerned Scientists just conducted a report in which they surveyed 1,586 people working for the EPA, and they found the following:
OK…I would like to provide you with intelligent analysis of this situation, but I’m gonna have to take some time to calm down first.
Our brothers at EnviroWonk have this to say:
The report points to the White House Office of Management and Budget as one of the worst offenders, demonstrating where most of this pressure is coming from. While this is not terribly surprising, it does attest to the depth of the problems at the EPA under the Bush Administration, and to the frustration and low morale of an agency being tugged in two diametrically opposed directions.
Now, this was a questionnaire sent to 5,419 EPA staffers who voluntarily responded. It could be that those who had experienced political interference were most inclined to complain about it and return the survey. However, we EnviroWonks are everywhere, including at the EPA. The current and/or previous first-hand experiences of our brethren do nothing to disprove these allegations.
Somewhat mysterious…but telling.
What do we do when the major body controlling environmental law is so very easy to manipulate…not just into relaxing regulations, but into manipulating data. This is the stone and steel that we are supposed to be building the safety of our country upon. If it can bend so easily, I simply cannot see its strength.
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Original post by Hank Green
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