When we recently released our How to Green your Outdoor Sports we noted that making your own gear was one such way to achieve this. We included a few examples like making a surfboard carrier for your bike, but neglect to mention crafting the whole bo...
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Imagine if sitting at a stoplight created ambiance instead of idol time. This idea, together with the desire to divert old traffic lamps from landfills, is the vision behind Greenlight Concepts' beautifully recycled traffic-light lamps. Crafted from ...
Zenergy International, Inc., a Chicago-based biofuels solutions provider, has acquired Greenlight Biofuels Ltd, a biodiesel company based in Texas with a capacity of 5 million gallons per year....
Photo credit: Uli1001Florida wildlife officials are planning to unleash a new predator on its itinerant alligator population: suburban homeowners. For the past three decades, the state has relied on professional trappers to deal with complaints of wa...
Somehow we missed this last year. Karhu have introduced Paulownia to the construction of their backcountry skis. We've blathered on about this timber before (once, twice or thrice,) regarding its application in surfboards, and even in shelving. As Ka...
The defense contractor wins a $1.4 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force to build the next generation of navigation satellites, set to be more accurate and more resistant to jamming....
San Francisco has made solar energy a top priority with the passage of the Solar Energy Initiative Program - the largest solar energy subsidy program of any city in the United States. An annual budget of $3 million dollars will help create incentives...
When news came that a student named Ryan Morgan at North Pocono High School near Scranton, PA had started distributing CFL bulbs in a bid to raise awareness of global warming and what folks can do about it, I must admit that I was impressed, and felt...
My friend Jeff Biggers, a noted author on Appalachia and a strong ally in the fight against mountaintop removal, just emailed me the link to his latest HuffPo blog with a one-word note: depressing. One click revealed the shocking, utterly hear...