A federal rebate program like Cash for Clunkers will start soon for Cash for appliances. The rebate program encourages consumers to purchase energy efficient appliances. Varies by each state
This is a nice winter project to do anytime it’s cold enough. It adds some decoration into a yard bare of flowers and most of its greenery, and depending on what you use, will become a handy natural dispenser for either birdseed or self-sown wildflower seeds.
Sure, big ideas like generating electricity from ocean waves or legal limits on carbon emissions are important to slowing global warming. But the little things count, too. Here are some ways that you can make a difference.
Top universities not only pumping out students with degrees in green technologies, but these universities also have a pipeline of collaboration of businesses, universities, state initiatives, investors and research dollars for developing the latest technologies to improve the environment.
Since we've seen so many electronics companies improve the energy efficiency of their goods, eliminate toxins and put an increased focus on the greener aspects of products over the last year, it's only understandable that the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show's Sustainable Planet section grew 40 percent for this year with more than 30 exhibitors.
Gas drilling is often portrayed as the ultimate win-win in an era of hard choices: a new, 100-year supply of cleaner-burning fuel, a risk-free solution to the nation’s dependence on foreign energy. It takes brute force to wrest natural gas from the earth. Millions of gallons of chemical-laden water mixed with sand -- under enough pressure to peel paint from a car -- are pumped into the ground, pu
The Department of Energy has announced that, as of Jan. 20, LG Electronics will be banned from using the Energy Star label on 20 of its refrigerator-freezer models. Consumer Reports found that energy usage was typically twice that claimed by LG.
The outcome of Copenhagen is depressing if you only look at what happened at the official summit, and persist in the belief that those guys are "world leaders". Elements of an alternative global framework have started to emerge.
With all of this stimulus and environmental concern you might think women could easily take advantage of all the change in the air. At present women are employed very little in the fields of upcoming growth and change. While there have been hints by the Obama camp that women should be looking to educate or reeducate into some of these fields it has been very subtle.
If your in the world of investment, you are keeping your ear to the ground. Economic instability is not the best bedfellow for creating environmentally sound economic engines but it may not be the worst. With the obvious Asian markets in deep need of change and regulation it may be the perfect time to invest if you can guess correctly.
