Heating oil used in homes and businesses is the second most used petroleum product after gasoline. Reducing its use would mean that the price for it would go down and there would be more petroleum available to be made into...
Here’s a bright idea: The Light Up The World Foundation (LUTW) is an international humanitarian organization dedicated to illuminating the lives of the world’s poor. It is the first organization to utilize solid-state lighting...
One of the big news in the British media at the moment is the protest against the bulding of a new runway at Heathrow Airport, one of the busiest aiports in the world. The protesters’ point is simple: if the government really is serious about...
At home I have two rooms that have solar tubes come in and light up the rooms during the day. One is a small bathroom. The other is a family room with too few windows. The solar tubes are kind of like skylights except that the tubes bring the...
After the last gloomy post on plastic bags, a flurry of good news on the environmental front. Wired has written that ‘vulnerable birds are rebounding in Europe’ while in Peru conversation efforts “are reducing damage to the Amazon...
