• The Environment

    10 Audacious Ideas to Save the Planet

    By Posted on 8.1.2008 27 Comments

    Making a dent in the climate crisis is going to take more than solar panels and recycled toilet paper. Scientists are finding ever more creative ways (pig pee! DIY tornadoes! mini nuclear reactors!) to clean up the Earth

    6.15.2008 at 07:48pm - Comment by eredux

    Check out these US Carbon Footprint stats, an interactive United States Carbon Footprint table, illustrating Greenest States to Cities. This site has all sorts of stats on individual State & City energy consumptions, demographics and much more down to your local US City level... http://www.eredux.com/states/

  • The Environment

    America's 50 Greenest Cities

    By Posted on 2.14.2008 47 Comments

    In the international alliance to fight climate change, the United States is considered the sullen loner. But in the seven years since we rejected Kyoto, changes have begun. Not at the federal level, however. Its the locals who are making it happen.

    2.13.2008 at 10:46am - Comment by eredux

    Check out this US Carbon Footprint Map, an interactive United States Carbon Footprint Map, illustrating Greenest States to Cities. This site has all sorts of stats on individual State & City energy consumptions, demographics and much more down to your local US City level... http://www.eredux.com/states/



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