Sunscreens that pollute the water are not efficient. This is especially true in the ocean, where it’s estimate that 4000-6000 tons of sunscreen wash off swimmers every year. A company called Caribbean Solutions is introducing a biodegradeable sunscreen nationwide.
This sunscreen is free of petroleum derivatives — instead, the active ingredients are titanium dioxide and […]
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Can capitalism do sustainable development? OK, let’s ask that question again without the jargon. Can I really help save the planet by buying products from all these big companies “going green” and selling Fairtrade products?
I have been thinking about this a lot while researching my newly published book, Confessions of an Eco Sinner. […]
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I recently wrote about Filtering Your Drinking Water Very Efficiently, but let us turn now to your shower water. When we shower, we absorb the substances dissolved in water through our skin quite readily. For example, as much as 60% of the chlorine you absorb daily comes from showering in chlorinated water. The chlorine is […]
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Yep, it’s costing $275 million dollars a day to occupy Iraq. Okay, so that’s not quite 2B a week. But close enough, y’know?
Meanwhile, projects like this one are begging for funds:
Solar Fire Technologies offer one of the most cost effective ways to concentrate and use solar energy. Helping people and saving our environment is our […]
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The Seattle Times reports today that a California resident who has a roof-top solar panel system sued his neighbor who has redwood trees because the trees shade his solar panels. The $1,000-a-day fine that can be imposed on offending tree owners seems to put the wrong-doers in a league with Enron executives. Tree hugging is […]
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Solar lights are great for the outdoors, but there is another use you may not have thought about. Now, I can’t take credit for this one - I read about it in a woman’s magazine. But, it is such a clever solution that I had to share. So, here is is -
If your power goes […]
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Short audio interview with futurologist Raymond Kurzweil looking at how industries turn into information technologies and from there can take advantage of his theory of Accelerated Returns. He sees nano-engineered fuel cells storing solar power and completely replacing fossil fuels within 20 years. Part of this process involves internalizing the environmental costs of fossil fuels, shifting emphasis and […]
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RFK JR. IN A CLINTON CABINET POSITION?Â
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been in Australia this week attending the three-day International Solar Cities conference in Adelaide. During his keynote address, Bobby dropped a fascinating hint about a possible cabinet position for him in Hillary Clinton’s White House.
If such were offered, it would be a dream come true for […]
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DUKE HELFAND, Los Angeles Times, February 20, 2008
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other municipal leaders unveiled a green energy initiative Tuesday by the city’s utility that they predict will create as many as 400 union jobs over the next three years to install and maintain solar panels on city buildings and other structures around Los Angeles.
Villaraigosa […]
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“Hope is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.”
Those words come from Rebecca Solnit’s book, Hope in the Dark, but as far as Chris Turner is concerned, they must be the starting point in every battle against global warming. And if you want a living personification of that sort of hope — […]
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