climate change
Fight Global Warming While You Surf the Web January 29th, 2009
How many times do you search the Internet every day? Five? Ten? Twenty? Two hundred? What if every time you searched, you could do a little bit of good for the environment? Does that sound...more
Green Your Phone with Renewable Energy Credits December 12th, 2008
Best Buy Offering Mobile Phone Energy Offsets
Looking for a way to make your cell phone a little bit greener? Best Buy has an idea -- visit one of their stores to buy wind-power energy credits to offset your phone's electricity use. The...more
Greenpeace Grades the Electronics Makers on Climate Leadership December 4th, 2008
Nintendo and Microsoft Rank at the Bottom
For the tenth time in the last two years, Greenpeace has ranked electronics manufactuers according to their policies and manufacturing procedures to come up with a list of the "greenest" electronics makers, but also to...more
Fight Climate Change, Win $75,000 November 20th, 2008
Prize Seeks to Inspire Innovation
Got an idea to fight climate change by reducing carbon emissions? The Forum for the Future wants to hear about it. They have teamed with the Financial Times for the new Climate Change Challenge competition,...more
Top 10 Recycling Resources November 3rd, 2008
Tips on how to make sure your trash gets a new lease on life
We all mean to recycle. The problem is that it’s sometimes quite difficult to actually get your recyclables to the proper facilities. If your apartment building or neighborhood doesn't have a recycling program in place,...more
Sometimes the Greenest Technology is Elbow Grease October 24th, 2008
It's fall foliage time here in Maine, and the skyline abounds with brilliant red and yellow leaves in every direction. So does the ground, where the leaves form a crunchy carpet that rustles beneath me...more
What Will McCain and Obama Do About Nuclear Power? October 14th, 2008
Let us know if either candidates' position will sway your vote!
When it comes to the environment, few topics cause as much debate and friction as nuclear energy. On the one hand, nuclear energy is relatively clean, creating no emissions and running at relatively low cost. On the...more
How to Talk to Your Kids about Global Warming July 22nd, 2008
Five Steps You and Your Kids Can Take to Lower Carbon Emissions
A woman I know lives with her family in a house that backs up against a forest. The forest is being clear cut, a not so infrequent occurrence in this part of the country. One...more
2000-Year-Old Trees Help Explain Climate Change July 17th, 2008
Scientists Look to Bark to Understand Global Warming
A team of scientists in Argentina are studying the bark rings of native Alerce trees, in the hope that they will provide information about the temperature and climate over the last several hundred years. Want to...more
Mystery Unclogged Part II July 1st, 2008
by Sarah at ProgressiveKid (Read Part I of this two-part series on our national wastewater problem.) In Part I we examined the contents of our wastewater and how the most common wastewater treatment systems work. Now we...more
