March 8, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
Annie Leonard may live in California, but she has a prominent piece of Philadelphia on her desk.
It’s a jar of toxic incinerator ash, and the gray powder may well be the most famous, well-traveled incinerator ash in the world.
It was from a Philadelphia incinerator, and for 16 years, it wandered the ocean on the barge
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March 8, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
There are fun-to-drive cars, green cars, and affordable cars. But is there showroom machinery that does all three?
The answer is - a flourish of trumpets, please - yes.
It is possible to find all three qualities under one steel or cloth roof, and we have a six-pack of fun, green affordables (FGAs) to bolster our argument.
The
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March 2, 2010, Posted by admin at 6:28 am
We all know that drinking water is good for us. But half of Americans are still buying their water in disposable plastic bottles. That’s an enormous waste of both resources and money but I bet you didn’t know it’s also a waste of water.
Sure bottled water is convenient but there are many reasons to break
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March 2, 2010, Posted by admin at 6:28 am
At first it was just one or two. But within weeks they were everywhere: outside the supermarket, the tire store, the park.
When Joe Orman left his Cherry Hill tobacco shop last week, the parking lot was empty. When he arrived Monday, a 5-by-3-foot solar panel had been attached to the utility pole at the corner
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February 26, 2010, Posted by admin at 6:28 am
Even the best-intentioned locavore - that is, someone who eats only or mostly food grown, raised, and produced nearby - can run into difficulties over a Philadelphia winter.
Fruits and vegetables grown in the region are climatologically limited, as are the outdoor farmers markets that link consumers with local foods. The pyramids of Pennsylvania and New
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February 26, 2010, Posted by admin at 6:28 am
TOKYO - Honda launched its sporty new hybrid CR-Z on Thursday, vowing to uphold quality amid spectacular safety woes at its archrival Toyota.
Japan’s No. 2 automaker said it hopes the sleek two-door hatchback will appeal to a younger set or empty-nesters who want a “green” car with a bit of pizazz. The car will go
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February 22, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
Inside the Academy of Natural Sciences, weighty topics were being hashed out - the design of cities, how we get around them, and how they make us feel.
Outside, David Bevacqua and Sean Betts were parking bikes. A lot of them.
In their free “valet” bike-parking area, a project of the Neighborhood Bike Works, about 50 sets
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February 22, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
Jeffrey Tubbs has found a way to survive and thrive in a difficult residential real estate market:
Start small, build green, price it right, work with your neighbors, and, even better, buy a unit and live there.
The result: the Flats at Girard Pointe at Third Street and Germantown Avenue in Kensington, just above Northern Liberties. The
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February 19, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
BALTIMORE - Mountains of grimy snow piled in parking lots aren’t the prettiest sight in East Coast communities, but experts say leaving it there until the spring thaw is less toxic to the environment than dumping it into freshwater rivers, streams and creeks.
Over the past two weeks, crews in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia have
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February 19, 2010, Posted by admin at 10:28 pm
Dear EarthTalk: Short of massive efforts to build a public transportation infrastructure, which doesn’t appear likely anytime soon, what is being done to address traffic congestion, which is reaching absurd levels almost everywhere?
— John Daniels, Baltimore
Traffic congestion has gotten way out of hand — and not just in developed countries anymore: Traffic jams and smog
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