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While we are watchfully embracing the capping of the BP Gulf oil spill after 85 long days and 184 million gallons, it’s important to remember the damaging effects the oil has had on countless species of wildlife. The devastating oil spill is not only threatening fish (and fisherman), birds and marine mammals, but sea turtles as well. Already claiming the lives of over 467 endangered sea turtles, the survival of many others is unknown. Read more…
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Effective energy management has become a necessity for successful businesses. In the past, companies were relatively unaware of the implications of their environmental footprint. However, with the help of Hara Environmental and Energy Management Software, many businesses, and even entire cities, have found ways to minimize environmental impact while maximizing profits. Read more…
The future of automotive transport may a have carbon-fiber body, sexier than you might imagine. Today it is used in high performance auto parts, aircraft wings, and bits of supercars. 30% lighter than aluminum and 50% lighter than steel it has been a more expensive and labor-intensive alternative, ruling it out for high-volume production. BMW hopes to change all that when it introduces its plug-in electric car concept called the Megacity in 2013. Read more…
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Logging has been the cause of complete deforestation for many years. Illegal logging is an even bigger problem because it is unregulated and ruthless. However, for the first time in a long time there is some good news. Read more…
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Aside from the fact that most Americans can’t actually help clean up oil in the Gulf, the most frustrating result of the BP spill may be that consumers can’t really boycott oil companies either (the Google results are frustrating too- the company bought the first link for the search words “oil spill”). Read more…
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Do you compost? If you live in a city or even a tightly packed neighborhood our guess is probably not. Lets face it. Without a large back yard where compost can be disposed of properly so as to not stink up the entire house and attract all kinds of unwanted critters, composting is just too much of a hassel for many. Even with the cool and techie compost bins found at Costco and elsewhere, composting in urban settings is more of an “ideal than a reality”.
Welcome the Compost Cab, a new eco start-up business set to Read more…
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One day in her job at the supermarket, Angela Maldonado and a delivery man made a trade: money to repair the man’s grocery truck for the man’s pet wooly monkey. She decided to set the monkey free in the jungles of Vaupe. She then went home and started a job in management with Coca-Cola. Now, 10 years later, Angela Maldonado considers it her life’s work to preserve the population of night monkeys in the Colombian rainforest. Read more…
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We’ve heard plenty about oil spills in recent days, but how about issues with natural gas- say, the possibility of gas leaking into our drinking water? While natural gas has been deemed more environmentally friendly than Middle Eastern oil and accounts for 23% of U.S. electricity generation today, concerns have been raised over the effects of extraction for nearby Texas residents and could foreshadow concerns for the rest of the world. Read more…
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Though the verdict is still out on who actually killed the LA River, some policymakers are making progress to return it to its natural state. Just recently, the EPA announced that the entire 51 miles of the river, from the San Fernando Valley to the San Pedro Bay will be designated ‘traditional navigable waters’. This designation is crucial for Clean Water Act protections to be applied to the waterway. Read more…
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The home of NBA’s Houston Rockets, The Houston Toyota Centre has recently earned certification through the US Green Building Council’s LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance Program. The venue becomes the only such one in Texas to be certified and joins Portland, Miami and Atlanta as the only NBA teams with green facilities. Read more…
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