Top Alternative Fuels
Top Alternative Fuels
Alternative fuels such as ethanol, natural gas, propane, electricity, hydrogen, biodiesel, methanol and P-Series fuels provide alternatives to fossil fuels that are better for the environment and often better for the economy and your budget.
Climate friendly car windows? Calif. to require
California air regulators voted unanimously Thursday for a mandate requiring auto manufacturers to include sun-reflecting glass on all vehicles sold within the state by 2014.
Litter Trashes the Environment
Litter is more than an eyesore on city streets and alongside highways. Litter pollutes waterways and leaches toxic chemicals into soil and groundwater as it breaks down. Most litter begins with a careless or thoughtless act by a single person who tosses away a cigarette butt or an empty soda can, which means there is a lot you can do to prevent litter.
Energy-Efficient Design
Energy-Efficient Design
Slash your utility bills and help the environment through energy-efficient design. These resources will help you save energy when you build a new house or remodel the home you have now.
Study: Dust alters timing of snowmelt
The timing of mountain snowmelt is being thrown off by desert dust stirred as global warming dries larger areas and human activity increases in those regions, a study found.
Save the World in 30 Minutes
Save the World in 30 Minutes
By choosing green living and an earth-friendly lifestyle, you can do a lot every day to help protect the environment. Here are five simple things you can do—in 30 minutes or less—to help protect the environment and save Planet Earth.
Arches and canyons and buttes, oh my!
Road Trip 2009 takes a swing through eastern Utah–and a brief journey across the border into Arizona–to see some of the most awe-inspiring rock formations on Earth.
Subsidies contribute to harming Baltic Sea instead of saving it
Subsidies contribute to harming Baltic Sea instead of saving it 
The majority of subsidies given to Baltic Sea fisheries and agriculture have a negative impact on the health of the sea, a new WWF report says.
Some 14 billion euros of taxpayers’ money is distributed to these sectors in the region every year. But according to WWF at least 84 percent of this cash pile is being used in an environmentally harmful way or instead of serving the public good is supporting purely profit related activities.
A previous Swedish Environment Protection Agency showed that the minimum cost to reach the environmental targets for eutrophication and fisheries in the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan is calculated to be approximately €2.6 billion per year.
“This shows that we have enough money to save the Baltic Sea,” says Lasse Gustavsson, the CEO of WWF Sweden. “Just the money provided to the agriculture and fisheries sectors in the form of misdirected subsidies equals four times the amount of money needed to save the Baltic Sea.”
Parallel to the report on subsidies, WWF released its vision statements for the future of European agricultural policy and the European fisheries policy.
Both of these documents state that public funding should only be used to pay for those goods and services that benefit us all, but are not paid for by the market; services like the sustainable management of common resources, biodiversity protection or the maintenance of cultural values.
“The distribution of subsidies today reflects the outcome of political negotiations rather than an objective assessment of the needs of these sectors, the appropriate use of public funding in response to these needs, or a consideration of the amount of funding required”, says Lasse Gustavsson.
”Delivering public goods should be the primary purpose of public funding, and this is likely to require substantial investments in the Baltic Sea region also in the future”.
According to WWF the most urgent measure to solve the fisheries crisis is to bring down fishing over-capacity to a sustainable level. Today subsidies are used both to scrap vessels and to support increased fishing. The report shows that the cost to bring down over-capacity would be less than zero – it would be a net gain for society.
In order to put agriculture policy on a more sustainable track the WWF vision states the importance of working in partnership with environmental NGOs, farmers’ representatives and others to develop a new Common Environment and Rural Policy for implementation in 2019.
The full report and the vision papers are available at www.panda.org/baltic
Save the Earth Sacrifice Your Returns?
Architect Kendall Wilson believes in protecting the environment. When he designs a house or office building, he makes a point of using energy-efficient designs and sustainable materials, such as bamboo instead of oak.
What Causes Smog?
Smog, also known as ground-level ozone, poses serious risks to public health and the environment. Learn what causes smog.
Winds might be weakening, study finds
Winds might be weakening, study finds
The wind, a favorite power source of the green movement, could be weakening across the U.S. And the cause, ironically, may be global warming — the very problem wind power seeks to address.
Jatropha becomes big biofuel buzzword
What some see as the biofuel of the future starts out as short, thick stems with a few leaves sticking out at sharp angles.
4 Simple Water Purification Techniques
4 Simple Water Purification Techniques
Easy water purification techniques are in hot demand when it comes to keeping the earth environmentally sound and its population healthy.
Paul McCartney Advocates Meat Free Mondays to Aid the Environment
Paul McCartney Advocates Meat Free Mondays to Aid the Environment
Sir Paul McCartney—legendary musician, environmental activist and longtime vegetarian—today led a star-studded appeal for people in Britain and elsewhere to practice “meat free Mondays” and adopt a vegetarian lifestyle one…
Help Save the Earth, Time to Subsitute Hemp for Oil
Help Save the Earth, Time to Subsitute Hemp for Oil Every man-made fiber we wear, sit on, cook with, drive in, are by-products of the petroleum industry — all of which could be replaced by hemp.
Batteries: Toss or Recycle?
Batteries: Toss or Recycle?
May batteries be safely discarded along with other household trash, or must they be recycled? While newer batteries contain less mercury and other toxic substances than older versions, they do include trace amounts that could potentially harm the environment.
Warp Drive Engine Could Destroy Earth
Warp Drive Engine Could Destroy Earth
New calculations show a warp drive engine would suck Earth into a black hole.
Burt Dickenson, Most Powerful Magician on the Planet Earth (2009)
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