Has anyone ever told you that it was illegal to be line drying your clothes outside? If you live in the United States, you may be one of the millions of citizens living in communities which have made it against the law to do so. Outside of the U.S., line drying your clothes is the [...]
If you are a fan of electric cars and the future of transportation, and have a Netflix Watch Instantly subscription, I have the perfect documentary for you to check out. Revenge of the Electric Car is the follow-up to Who Killed the Electric Car?, and is presented 12 years after General Motors killed their EV1 [...]
Q: Is it true that cable and other pay TV boxes that sit atop television sets consume massive amounts of energy, in part because they are always on, even when the TV is off? We hear a lot about how much energy modern day flat screen TV sets consume, but the innocuous set-top boxes that [...]
If it’s wintertime where you live, then you know what that means – it’s time to bring out the supplies needed to treat a cold! Cold and flu season brings on all sorts of maladies, from the sniffles all the way to the flu and pneumonia. But the most common aiment people come down with [...]
A weekly roundup of important green news stories from around the web… We are very fortunate to live in a time where we have nearly instant access to food of all kinds. That is why when I talk about starting a vegetable garden and growing your own food people give me a strange look. Why [...]
The University of Vermont will be ending the sale of bottled water on campus as of January 2013, according to a release today from University Communications. This news comes just five months before the end of a contract with Coca-Cola which stipulated that the beverage company would provide 100% of the drinks sold in vending [...]
One of my favorite stores online for all things reusable is Reuseit.com. Living in a throw-away society like we do, it’s sometimes difficult to find products that are designed to be reused over and over again while also reducing waste in our landfills. I have bought many things from these guys over the years, from [...]
