Cities and towns are finding that cleaning water and recycling can be done by taking a page out of nature's book -- like using the earth to filter dirty water instead of building an industrial waste-water processing plant. Read More...
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Shutting Down of U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Looks Unlikely Despite Dangers
Last week, a group of 25 environmental organizations, including the Green Party of Ohio, Riverkeeper and the Michigan Chapter of the Sierra Club, filed challenges to all the permits the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) currently has under review. The challenges demand that the NRC’s task force report on Fukushima be taken into account before... Read More...
Water and Chemicals Cast Long Shadows on U.S. Fairways
A couple of years ago, on a visit to Scottsdale, Arizona, we went for a day hike to a state park east of the town. The main trail through the park climbed to an elevation of about a thousand feet above the land around it, which was entirely desert, except for a few sprawls... Read More...
Wind Power Technology; Thirty Years and Counting
Wind power, once considered an antique power source, has entered the 21st century and promises to provide a significant portion of the world's electricity. Read More...
Hydroponic City Farms: Close, Fresh and Expensive
Hydroponics -- growing food in water instead of earth -- is well-suited for urban farming. The newly picked and high-quality vegetables produced are mostly charming locavores who have the money to pay for it. But the possibilities for the future are large. Read More...
GM to Provide Chevy Dealers with Solar Canopies to Charge Volts
GM finally seems ready to support its electric car, providing solar-powered canopies to dealers for recharging stations. Read More...
The Future of Agriculture is Urban
The future of farming is urban. Huge cities like New York and Beijing will have vast acres of rooftop greenhouses. Modern metropolises will contain large buildings with architecturally integrated agricultural systems where the inhabitants’ fresh vegetables are grown and poultry and other small food animals are reared. Only staples like corn, wheat and rice,... Read More...
Biodiversity in Singapore?
While New York City wrangles over a few bike paths, Singapore is not only adding green space, it's determined to turn itself from a city with gardens to "a city within a garden" with biodiversity considerations usually foreign to urban concerns. Read More...
Still Fossil-Fueled, but Cleaner, Greener, Nonetheless
How many of New York's larger buildings are responding to the City's demand that they stop burning the highly polluting No. 6 oil is a great hands on demonstration of how large buildings can come clean and make money doing it. Read More...
Bikes Win Tour de Carmaggeddon
When Jet Blue set up a flight over the 40 miles of L.A.'s Carmaggeddon, it was challenged by guys on bikes, and even people who took the LA Metro. Guess who came in last! Read More...