Take a peek into the world’s most sustainable brewery, New Belgium, located in Ft. Collins, CO. The innovative and groundbreaking way this brewery functions on every level has made it a pillar of what a “green” beer should be all about.
Fixed to the walls, lining the racks outside, in pictures—there are bikes everywhere you look at New Belgium. So what do bikes and brewing have in common? The recipe for the brewery’s first beer, Fat Tire, came out of the…
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The idea of personal planes may conjure up dark visions of Blade Runner,? but the first batch of two-seater aircraft to fly on electricity rather than fossil fuels could reach more than a dozen buyers by year's end.
The glider weighs little more than 700 pounds and costs $133,000, only about one-third more than the electric Tesla Roadster, a hot toy for billionaires.Pipistrel's customers include Formula One driver Pedro de la Rosa. But even Google…
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Bees are dying. Pesticides could be a cause. Germany and France do something about it. U.S.?
Cummins’ remarks, in an interview with GreenRightNow, come less than a month after Germany’s ban of clothianidin, a pesticide commonly used to keep insects off of corn crops. Germany banned the pesticide after heaps of dead…
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WASHINGTON - Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world’s only hope is drastic action.
Hansen brought global warming home to the public in June 1988 during a Washington heat wave, telling a Senate hearing that global warming was already here. To mark the anniversary, he testified before the House Select Committee on Energy…
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In this day and age electronics there's no reason to use a screen saver to prevent burn-in. It's just a waste of electricity and creates additional C02
It warmed my heart to read at Green Daily that Telstra, the biggest phone company in Australia, has removed all the corporate screen savers from the 36,000 computers in its offices. What will happen? The change will cut tons of CO2, which they…
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There’s a predator lurking in Chicago-area bushes these days. He strikes from behind, when victims are least aware. And the worst part, says ornithologist Doug Stotz: He could be almost anywhere. Nesting season is in full swing for the red-winged blackbird, making the males extremely aggressive…
Enough of Grosso's colleagues at the marketing firm All Terrain have been struck that they're taking precautions. After Tara Soltow was attacked a second time Wednesday, she had to find a new route home. Clare McDermott never rides near…
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Mobile computer repair that buys retired vehicles and converts them to run on waste vegetable oil. This ends up saving them money and makes good use of a waste product..
Isnt it wonderful when a company, especially a small one with limited financial resources does what it can to limit its environmental impact? Thats what Chad and his family are doing. Chad is taking steps to turn his small business, PC911,…
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Divinecaroline tells how to save money and be more eco-freindly in your travels.
1. Go before you go. If you want to avert a little CO2, use the airport lavatory, not the one on the plane, since, believe it or not, the fuel used for every mile-high flush could run a car for six miles. Plus, who doesn’t want to…
Honda’s new zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell car rolled off a Japanese production line Monday and is headed to southern California, where Hollywood is already abuzz over the latest splash in green motoring.
“It's so smooth,” said Harris, who played villainness Marie Warner on the hit TV show “24.” “It's like a future machine, but it's not.” Harris, Spallino and Yerxa were flown to the ceremony, courtesy of…
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Honda’s new zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell car rolled off a Japanese production line Monday and is headed to Southern California, where Hollywood is already abuzz over the latest splash in green motoring.
Although Honda Motor Co. was the first Japanese automaker to launch a gas-electric hybrid vehicle in the U.S. in 1999, it has been outpaced by the dominance of Toyota's popular Prius. Toyota announced in May that it has sold more than 1…
