Stadiums Take A Sustainable Step In The Right Direction Lincoln Financial Field, home to the Philadelphia Eagles. On average 68,240 people attend professional football games each year, making it one of the most popular sports in attendance. However, during a single season one stadium can consume enough electricity to power 225 households per month. One…
DetailsSouthern California’s largest craft brewery poised to grow BY PETER ROWE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MAY 18, 2011 AT 6 A.M., UPDATED MAY 18, 2011 AT 11:11 A.M. JOHN GASTALDO Mil Krecu, the manager of Stone Farm, oversees 18-plus acres that will supply organic produce for Stone’s restaurants in Escondido and Point Loma. Chickens beneath what is…
DetailsSeven years ago, Wal-Mart began to undertake an unexpected transformation. The world’s largest retailer, so often criticized or sued for a variety of its labor and sourcing practices, partnered with some of its onetime critics — environmentalists — and embraced going green. Since then, the company has dramatically reduced its waste, cut down on packaging…
DetailsMALABO, Equatorial Guinea, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Equatorial Guinea’s United Nations permanent Representative, Anatolio Ndong Mba, said last week that the country has achieved some of its major development goals by eradicating malaria in more than a third of the population, and making significant improvements in the country’s infrastructure, education and public health. Moving the country toward a…
DetailsBY PAULA SIROIS It’s OK. You can admit it. All things green and earth-friendly have swept the nation and pretty much everywhere you look, people are either talking about recycling or carrying those bags that we’re all supposed to use instead of paper or plastic. And here you are stuck in the middle. You recycle…
DetailsBy Jonah Goldberg May 10, 2011, 10:15 am There’s a lot of chatter about the fact that GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt is backing off his obsession with green technology and climate change. In a speech at MIT recently he said: If I had one thing to do over again I would not have talked so much…
DetailsNEIL CAVUTO, HOST: Right now, the federal government does not have the definition for a green job. In fact, it doesn’t even count them. So why does he keep talking about them? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This is where the jobs of the future are in. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)…
DetailsMay 16, 2011 · By Cecelia Mason Shepherd University Dr. Ed Snyder, chair of the Institute of Environmental and Physical Sciences and professor of environmental studies at Shepherd University, helps a student. Wind turbines are springing up all over West Virginia and renewable energy is predicted to be a growth industry so Shepherd University’s Institute for Environmental and Physical…
DetailsTwo years ago, my California driver’s license expired. Living in Chicago at the time, where the smart resident uses bikes or public transit to avoid traffic, I hadn’t found a compelling reason to get behind the wheel of our car in months. With plenty of other pressing tasks on my to-do list, renewing or replacing…
DetailsWhen Bill Gates first jumped into the energy discussion with a big TED talk, I wrote a post called “Why Bill Gates is wrong.” In retrospect, I should have been a bit more diplomatic. I should have started with a post called “Why it’s super-fantastic that someone as smart, influential, and wealthy as Bill Gates is…
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