I saw this one in Target the other day:
What with every other super hero—including recent movie blockbusters featuring batman and the X-Men— confronting the effects of global warming in their own comic/tv/movie universes, I don’t think that this reboot of Captain Planet, is gonna fare much better than it did when the Captain was a slave to 5 Disney Mousekateer dropouts known as the Planeteers. Continue Reading
A Victory for Environmtal Justice!
As part of the latest green legislation in California, Prop 82, the residents of one central-California community heavily exposed to environmental hazards will will be entitled to some of the money that comes from fines and taxation money that comes from heavily polluting companies. 60% of the money will be going towards clean up and setting up as green energy farms and also towards planting rotating crops that will revitalize the soil, while providing for the local food and textile markets in the area surrounding Fresno county. The remaining 40% will go to the residents themselves, split per household. Continue Reading
This is the first smartgrid compatible power strip that has made it to the market. Much like a router for your internet connection, smarterstrips split the smart grid connection your outlets provide. A normal powerstrip would still supply energy to connected devices, but all the benefits of connecting to the smart grid (such as energy trading) would be lost. Until a truely ubiqutious switch to a decentrilized power grid, such specialized routers will be needed. Continue Reading
As a middle school teacher, I’ve come to see many fads come and go. These past few years though, I am amazed to see products that promote a sustainable lifestyle as not only this season’s “cool” or “in” trend, but something that is becoming as indispensable as their ubiquitous sidekicks.
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Ever since it’s start as an industrialized nation, Japan had been one of the world’s largest consumer of paper per capita in the world. Today though, despite being the biggest remaining one in the world, Japan’s printing industry not only fulfills it’s paper needs locally, but does so in a carbon-negative way! How did it accomplish this? With an old plant and some new technology. Continue Reading
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