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Girl Bikes 1500 Miles for Electric Vehicles
14-year-Old Wants Tax Credits and Incentives for EVs
Liza Stoner, a 14-year-old environmentalist, plans to bike from Minneapolis to Washington, D.C. this summer to raise awareness about electric vehicles. When she gets to the capital, she'll deliver a petition to lawmakers requesting tax credits and incentives -- an... more
World's Ten Best Biking Trails
National Geographic compiles a list of ten best bike trails
This list comes from a travel guide that National Geographic released, called, Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World’s Greatest Trips. For you world travelers out there, you better get started...! 1. Route Verte (Canada) 2. Underground Railroad Bicycle Route (U.S.A./Canada) 3.... more
Top Ten Green Building Projects of 2008
American Institute of Architects Names Top Ten Green Project Winners, 2008
2008 Top Ten Award Winners: Yale University Sculpture Building and Gallery (KieranTimberlake Associates, LLP) New Haven, CT Queens Botanical Garden Visitor & Administration Center (BKSK Architects) Flushing, NY (photo above) Pocono Environmental Education Center (Bohlin Cywinski Jackson) Dingmans Ferry, PA Nueva School Hillside... more
Wind Turbine Power: Farmers Turning the Wind into Gold
Community-Based Wind Power is Growing
Europe has long led the local wind power movement, starting in the middle ages, when Dutch farmers put up wind mills to grind grain and pump water. They’ve also managed to avoid the corporatization of wind power. In Germany, much... more
Analysts Predict $12-$15 a Gallon Gas Prices
UK Is Already Paying Nearly $9 per Gallon
The sky is falling, but not gas prices. As a matter of fact, things are only going to get worse. Much worse. Worse than the $4 a gallon national average we're likely to see in the next few weeks. Worse... more
Steal This Idea: Replantable Wedding Bouquet
With flowers, all the green talk has centered around local, sustainably grown, and fair trade, but there's still another aspect for consideration. Can your bouquet keep living beyond the day? The Los Angeles Times Magazine's wedding issue just featured a... more
REUSE REUSE REUSE RECYCLE! The NEW 4 R's!
What Could Possibly be Better than Recycling? Reusing Before you Recycle!
We all understand the importance of recycling, but there's an extra little step we can take with our recyclable materials on the way to the recycling bin to help reduce our waste even more! To master this new technique we... more
Greener Eating: Look for Grass-Fed Meat
Be A Compassionate Carnivore
The chickens at Kris Hirth’s Old Pine Farm in Manchester, MI spend their time strutting around the farm, happily ruffling their feathers and ignoring barn cats. Instead of being cooped up in a huge CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) where... more
Top 10 Most Fuel-Efficient Cars: Save Gas, Save Money
Plus the Extreme Hybrid SUV that Gets 150 MPG
Here are 10 cars that might just make driving a not--so-guilty pleasure again. The only way you can get closer to a free ride is to bike. You may be surprised to find that hybrids are not the only winners... more
Perez Hilton
An Activist All of a Sudden
Perezhilton.com is the #4 site visited by college females today. First is CNN, #2 or 3 is facebook.com, then it’s Perez. I have to admit that he’s bookmarked on my personal computer; it’s so addicting! Who else takes pictures of... more
