The Lazy Environmentalist shares his "Eco-Resolutions" for 2008 and encourages you to make some green resolutions of your own.
Year-round residents of Nantucket are voting today on whether the island should support a proposed wind farm to be built 14 miles off their scenic coast. While such offshore farms are big in Europe, this would be the first one in the U.S.
The sun, the breeze, the return of ice cream stands ... April is the worst month to be cooped up in the office. But instead of zoning out on gossip blogs and staring-out-the-window dreaming, put your spring-fever indolence to good use. Here are some valuable - and slightly alarming - online tools to calculate environmental impact statements for yourself, your office, your family.
Wind power will be used to fuel the flame of Lady Liberty’s torch – a powerful symbol of the United States’ growing commitment to clean energy. The Bush administration’s U.S. National Parks Service is contracting a local energy supplier to supply three years’ worth of clean, green wind power from upstate New York to light up the patriotic statue, as well as the nearby Ellis Island museum and several other sites, according to GreenBiz.com.
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