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Life and the Environment in Islamabad
This short article (in limited English) on the use of compressed natural gas as a bus fuel gives us a completely different view of Pakistan than we get from our media. That the country can think about using an environmentally friendlier fuel while it's suffering flood and war is remarkable. Read More...
A List of the Prime Suspects in Environmental Crimes
Environment America has issued a report on the ways agribusiness is blatantly flouting not only best practices but environmental laws as it pours billions of gallons of animal manure into our waters, creating vast dead zones -- oxygen-depleted environments where only algae can thrive. Read More...
Washington, DC Has New, Hot Bike Share Program
Washinton, D.C. has a publicly funded, reasonably priced and well-run bike-share program, with 52 thousand uses in the first seven weeks. Read More...
Visonary County Commissioners in Kitsap, WA
Some visionary county commissioners in Kitsap, a fairly rural area of Washington, are considering new, environmentally friendly approaches to sewage and stormwater drainage that would have revolutionary impact. Read More...
Texas Taking the Lead in Encouraging Electric Vehicles
Not just the green town of Austin, but many urban areas of Texas, are making bets on the electric vehicle as the car of their future by subsidizing not only the cars, but the charging stations. Read More...
New iPhone App for Crowdsourcing Water Quality
Using cell phones to enable individuals to provide data about local water sources would make ordinary citizens into instant environmental watchdogs. IBM's new iphone app is doing just that. Read More...
Wall Street Discovers Water Shortages Affect the Bottom Line
At last, the financial markets may be waking up to find that water supplies are not inexhaustible, and that climate change is going to move the bottom line much sooner than anyone thought. Maybe we'll be saved by the financial concerns of Wall Street after all. Read More...