As we reported here, China is banning plastic bags, an initiative that may have caught many Westerners by surprise as we tend to think of China as the big environmental culprit. India has done the same in some of its states and now Australia is...
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Those of you who would like to perhaps use the winter time to educate yourselves about the environment, here’s an opportunity. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has made available for free download several of its course textbooks...
It is Christmas and this is the time when kids and grown ups alike get a chance to wander around and spend time trying to find that appealing gift. I was checking out the website Hammacher.com and found a number of toys to demonstrate applications...
After years of the conversative and environmentally-unfriendly rule of John Howard, Australians finally voted Howard out and elected the more liberal Kevin Rudd to replace him. Rudd had promised to overturn the country’s policy on global...
Television was supposed to take over movies. Air travel was supposed to take over trains. Computers were supposed to reduce the use of paper. The fact is that none of it ever happened. Movies are doing fine, trains are supposed to increase...
