The Zoetrope is a vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) made from materials commonly found at your local hardware store and a few easily purchased online, and Applied Sciences has made the decision to “open source” the turbine for everyone who wants to try their hand at making one. With videos and a downloadable PDF construction guide, [...]
Whenever I become most appalled with people who toss their trash out the window without a thought, who live off of pre-packaged vacuum-sealed packets like they’re a food staple and with everyone else who insists upon using the earth and its resources like there’s 10 more of them we can use when we exhaust this [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Isn’t it a waste that we buy water in plastic bottles when it is basically free out of our taps? Even health food stores, which should know better, sell it like crazy. When did Earth’s most abundant and free natural resource become a commercial beverage? Bottled water has been a big-selling commercial beverage [...]
Long time readers may remember when I wrote about two different ways you could heat your home or garage without using electricity. There was the heater made from soda cans and an old window and these solar heaters that were installed on the sunny side of my house, both of which worked really well providing [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Vice-President Joe Biden just announced a commitment by the Obama administration of $53 billion to high speed rail. Isn’t it about time? Why is the U.S. so far behind other nations in developing environmentally friendly public transportation? There are many reasons why public transit hasn’t taken off in the U.S. as it has [...]
Each of us is going to continue to buy stuff. We can buy less, but the fact is that we are going to keep buying, so there is no way we can tell everyone on the face of the planet to stop shopping — it”™s just not going to happen. I am not one of [...]
Still receiving the PennySaver circular in your mailbox every week? Still taking it straight from the mailbox to the recycling bin? You aren’t alone — millions of people get the PennySaver at their homes and never even look at the thing, instead just grumbling about spam being delivered to them in paper form and tossing [...]
