Comic book fans were pleasantly surprised when this summer’s monster-sized film, The Incredible Hulk, became the #1 film of this past weekend. But the star of the film isn’t the only thing that’s green about this movie.
World Land Trust, an international organization dedicated to saving rainforests, and Universal Pictures, one of the largest motion picture companies in the world, are the new dynamic duo…
Brighter Planet, a company which offers products that help individuals and companies fight global warming, has teamed with Bank of America to provide customers credit cards that can reduce their carbon footprint and fund renewable energy projects.
These cards are part of Bank of America’s new $20 billion 10-year initiative to support sustainable businesses…
As of November 2007, the New York City Police Department employed over 36,000 police officers, and that’s the largest police force in the country.
Can you even imagine how many police officers there are in the rest of the U.S., and how many police vehicles are driven by them every day?
Automobile emissions are one of the largest contributors to global warming…
What do Harvard, Dartmouth, the University of Washington, Middlebury, Carleton and the University of Vermont have in common?
They have all been recognized as top college sustainability leaders by the 2008 College Sustainability Report Card, which is issued by the Sustainable Endowments Institute…
Every day we throw away tons of paper that should be recycled, but it obviously isn’t. If you were to visit your local landfill, you’d probably see that paper makes up almost half of the entire trash population. And who’s the evil ringleader ruling that population: Junk Mail!
The more junk mail that we throw away, the more overcrowded our landfills get and the more trees we have to cut down to produce future junk mail…
With the frightening consequences of global warming in the back of everyone’s head, a new ray of hope has been discovered: researchers at the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a low-cost, reusable material that can capture carbon dioxide emissions from power plant smokestacks…
Ripon College, a small liberal arts school of 1,000 students located about an hour and a half from downtown Milwaukee, is providing a great incentive to incoming freshmen: if they sign a pledge not to bring a car on campus for the entire semester, they’ll get a brand spanking new mountain bike!
This new program is called Velorution, which is…
According to an article on CNET.com’s News Blog, over 100 million iPods have been sold since their introduction to music lovers in 2001.
This is not a surprise since these high-tech devices can be seen on anyone from elementary school kids and business professionals to college students and stay-at-home moms…
If you’ve ever wanted to create your own green, humble abode to see just how much energy you consume, how much trash you produce and how much water you waste, then I’ve discovered a cool interactive game that let’s you do just that!
Myabodo is a fun way to see how the living choices that you make, from the car that you drive and the food that you buy to the type of energy that you use, can add to global warming and increase your carbon footprint.
Packing your lunch is not only good for your health, but it’s also great for your wallet. The more that you don’t go out to eat at lunch, the more money that you’ll have for really important things’like buying the latest Nintendo Wii game, picking up a birthday present for your mother, and of course, lowering your carbon footprint.
So how can you reduce your carbon footprint with your lunch?