I figured it was high time I do a more thorough water audit of our household. With the water supply in the Pacific Northwest guaranteed for the next fifty years, I've been a bit lazy about this. But understanding the world's present water crises, and how much worse it's expected to get, conserving water is still a good idea.
Algae has been making the news a lot lately, and is a fairly new topic in environmental circles.
Let's take a step back for a moment and talk about why algae is interesting and important.
“No, your computer isn’t misfiring.â€
That’s how The Wall Street Journal this evening introduced Environmental Capital — its first blog on the environment (and business), which actually is an outgrowth of, and absorbs, its existing Energy Roundup blog...
Knitting is a nice, eco-friendly hobby, right?
Meet Wayne Gerdes:
Wayne is the most fuel-efficient driver in the world. Seriously. There's a competition and a trophy and everything.
Wayne drives a 2004 Honda Accord which, according to the US Department of Energy, gets 23 MPG city.
Read the rest at: http://www.bravenewleaf.com/environment/2008/01/learning-how-to.htmlÂ
I know that this is a mundane question for many people; the benefits so obvious that they want to laugh at anybody silly enough to ask it. Truth is though, 23% of Americans don’t recycle anything.
