The environmental movement and rising awareness of global warming have sparked an interest in green living. People want to know what they can do to live sustainable lives. In this book, you will find an overview of global warming and environmental degradation of air, water, and soil; what sustainable living is and how to do [...]
Guest Contributor: John F. Wasik
Author, The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome
If U.S. housing is going to rebound long-term, we need to vanquish the car and stop encouraging sprawl.
First, let’s hasten the demise of the spurb, an ugly word I made up to describe sprawling, unwalkable urban-suburban areas that have no connection to public transportation and central cities.
The spurb’s time has long past. Future energy demands from the rest of the world mean higher energy prices down the road. We need homes where there are jobs, infrastructure and transportation.
Help Kids Lean About Healthy Air
Did you know a person is able to survive 1 month without food, 1 week without water but only 5 minutes without air? Make sure it is clean!!
Help kids get the picture on healthy air with this new coloring book from our correspondent Denise Robinette, founder of The Healthy Living [...]
Okay, this just burns me up…..
Thousands of rabbit bodies have been shipped from Stockholm to a plant in central Sweden. There the carcasses are burned as fuel to provide heat for homes.
via Sweden’s furry, alternative fuel source: Burning bunnies | L.A. Unleashed | Los Angeles Times.
Here’s a note from Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, posted at WhiteHouse.gov, about her experiences at the Society of Environmental Journalist’s conference in Madison. I attended the conference, and, since she said one of the challenges she faces is helping the public to understand the environmental issues we face [...]
Planet Green: Why is it so important to green your business in the first place?
Trish Riley: Our planet is in trouble, and businesses have the collective power to turn the tide on the environmental disaster we’ve created. If businesses don’t become sustainable, we don’t stand a chance.
Read more: New Idiot’s Guide Simplifies the Equation: Green [...]
John Wasik, personal finance columnist for Bloomberg News, traveled the country assessing the status of our cities and the sprawl he calls “spurbs.” He details several in his new book, The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream. Wasik identifies the problems of overdevelopment and highlights areas that show promise, such as Gainesville, Florida, by protecting natural space and resources and promoting livable urban landscapes.
Wasik shares his perspective in The Huffington Post today
Tony Goodson of The 3 Moments in Australia interviewed my co-author, Heather Gadonniex, and I about our new book:
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Greening Your Business authors, Trish Riley and Heather Gadonniex, have written the guide to raise the issues on Green and Sustainability and to show how businesses can profitably be more Green.
Click [...]
Want the full inside scoop on the Climate Bill? Osha Davidson provides it here:
The full text of the 1,400-page Waxman-Markey bill, including all amendments.
The complete transcripts of the four-day markup by the full House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
A transcript of the three-hour full House floor debate of June 26, 2009 (preceding the [...]
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