Ladies, you’ve all been there. An evening out, and you want something to defend yourself, but tasers and mace just don’t seem, you know, festive enough. So, for times when you need to combine protection and fashion, what’s better than a six-foot snake?
There is nothing like a little competition to inspire everyone to design better and greener. At least that is the theory behind the Progressive Automotive X-prize, which aims to create incentives to promote innovative thinking in the different industries.
Orly Airport, one of the two big airports serving Paris, is to extract geothermal energy from deep underground to slash its heating bills, the facility's owners said. Two shafts each 1,700 metres (one mile) deep will be drilled on the airport's perimeter to access a water table warmed by heat emanating from the Earth's hot core.
How to avoid handing your sweetie a handful of pesticides for Valentine's.
Some coral reefs may be protected from global warming by a natural thermostat that regulates sea-surface temperatures in the open ocean, researchers said Wednesday.
Gulf Arab oil exporter Abu Dhabi plans to spend $15 billion in the first phase of an initiative to develop green energy and build the world's largest hydrogen power plant. When the fifth largest oil exporter in the world invests big time in green energy, maybe it's time to reconsider our stance on renewables...
Traveling the world is something everyone would like to do, a list compiled by the IHT tells us about the 53 places to go in 2008! Have any other suggestions on where to go? Feel free to comment and name some places.
Just because you're concerned about climate change doesn't mean you have to live in a yurt in outer Mongolia. You can be passionate about the environment, without strapping yourself to a whaling ship or using yourself as a human shield against bulldozers that mow down old-growth trees.
U.S., European and other envoys at the U.N. climate conference took their 11th-hour talks into the early hours Saturday, working to resolve a dispute over how ambitious the goal should be in negotiating future cutbacks in global-warming gases.
As demand grows, multimillion-dollar mansions that are both indulgent and eco-friendly emerge. Real estate developer, Frank McKinney is betting $29 million that what luxury home buyers want now are environmentally-friendly estates.
"For example if you have to choose between investing in Coke or Pepsi, then you will choose the one with the better environmental and social rating." The words of Ivan Pictet, senior partner at Pictet, discussing with the Financial Times how he thinks socially responsible investing (SRI) will become a mainstream investment theme.
