• Four Ways to Recycle Your Clothes

  Four Ways to Recycle Your Clothes: 1. H&M has a new policy allowing shoppers to donate bags of clothing (which don’t have to be in good condition or carry an H&M label) in exchange for a 15 percent discount on an item of their choice. Puma and The North Face stores also accept worn clothing, and other retailers such as Levi’s, Gap, [...]

  

• Asian Countries Review Importing GMO US Wheat

  America is the world’s biggest wheat exporter, shipping $8 billion worth around the world every year. This represents nearly half the total $17.9 billion crop, according to U.S. Wheat Associates, which promotes American wheat abroad.  The presence of the genetically modified plant could cause some countries to turn away exports of American wheat, especially if any traces of the unapproved [...]

  

• Vegan Rubber Roma Rain Boots $84

  April showers are long gone, but that doesn’t mean the rains have stopped. Roma‘s vegan rubber rain boots are made from 100-percent natural latex rubber, and they’re lined with cotton to keep your feet warm and comfortable. Fairly made in China from 100 percent natural latex rubber, each boot includes a lining of quick-drying cotton to keep your toes nice [...]

  

• Beyonce Partners with Rent The Runway Boutique

  Beyonce is pairing her Sasha Fierce style with affordable prices in her new partnership with Rent The Runway. The online boutique provides inexpensive, high fashion apparel from over 100 designers and will now offer selections from the Beyonce Boutique. Rent the runway members can rent items for either 4 or 8 days. The site allows users to dress nice for [...]

  

• Tesla Pays Back $465m Loan 9 Years Early

  Tesla Motors, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based company that designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and electric vehicle powertrain components. Tesla Motors is a public company that trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol TSLA. After 10 years, Tesla posted profits, approximately $11 million,  for the first time during the first quarter of 2013. The company paid off [...]

  

• Will Mosanto Kill or Save Us?

  Monsanto is the company that allows farmers to grow more food with less land, water and energy. But it is also the company that brought us products we now know were far more dangerous than advertised, including the insecticide DDT, the toxic industrial chemicals known as PCBs, and the Vietnam-era defoliant Agent Orange, which poisoned our own soldiers with dioxins. [...]

  

• Walmart’s New Sustainable Supercube Trucks

  Walmart realized that having fewer cargo trips while using bigger trucks helped improve their profits. Therefore Walmart Canada came up with the idea of making bigger trucks to  drop their shipping costs and reduce traffic. Working with an Ontario-based company called Innovative Trailer Design, they commissioned what they’re calling the Walmart Supercube, which holds 30% more cargo in the same footprint. Most [...]

  

• Geneva Electric Buses Charge in 15 Seconds

  A new charging system for electric buses known as “flash-charging” can charge buses in 15 seconds. This means that buses can transport people without producing any local emissions, requiring overheard power lines, and avoiding lengthy stops to recharge. The flash charger uses a laser-controlled arm to connect the receptacle on the bus with the charger, which could be integrated into [...]

  

• Google Investing $12m into South Africa Jasper Power Project

  Google has announced its first ever renewable energies investment in Africa, putting $12m (103 million Rand) in the Jasper Power Project, a 96 megawatt solar photovoltaic plant in South Africa. Once it’s complete, the Jasper Power Project will be among the largest solar installations in Africa, and it could generate enough electricity to power 30,000 South African homes. “When we [...]

  

• British Loo Turned Into “The Attendant” Coffee Bar

  Peter Tomlinson took redundancy from his marketing job and ploughed much of his money into converting a former public toilet near Oxford Circus to create a sandwich and coffee bar.  In jolly olde England, a toilet is called a “loo“. There used to be lots of public ones around but they seem to have disappeared. The former Victorian lav, which has been [...]

  

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Google Investing $12m into South Africa Jasper Power Project

Google has announced its first ever renewable energies investment in Africa, putting $12m (103 million Rand) in the Jasper Power Project, a 96 megawatt solar photovoltaic plant in South Africa. Once it’s complete, the Jasper Power Project will be among the largest solar installations in Africa, and it could generate enough electricity to power 30,000 South African homes. “When we [...]

on June 1, 2013 at 9:14 am /

British Loo Turned Into “The Attendant” Coffee Bar

Peter Tomlinson took redundancy from his marketing job and ploughed much of his money into converting a former public toilet near Oxford Circus to create a sandwich and coffee bar.  In jolly olde England, a toilet is called a “loo“. There used to be lots of public ones around but they seem to have disappeared. The former Victorian lav, which has been [...]

on March 31, 2013 at 11:16 pm /

Exxon Mobil Arkansas Oil Spill

Exxon’s Pegasus pipeline, which can carry more than 90,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude from Patoka, Illinois to Nederland, Texas, was shut after the leak was discovered late Friday afternoon in a subdivision near the town of Mayflower. The leak forced the evacuation of 22 homes. Exxon also had no specific estimate of how much crude oil had spilled, [...]

on March 31, 2013 at 10:58 pm /

Ford 2013 C-Max Drives 47 Miles Per Gallon?

Ford has been in the green marketplace for quite a while, but the C-Max CUV represents a giant leap forward in its effort to topple the vaunted Toyota Prius.  The SEL model has an MSRP sticker price of $31,605. It looks like a typical four-door hatchback but is 4 inches higher than most small hatchbacks, feeling like a mini SUV. [...]

on March 31, 2013 at 9:46 pm /

Dolphin Carries Dead Calf on Her Back

Whale watchers in Dana Point, Calif., witnessed an unexpected display on Tuesday when they saw a female dolphin carrying her dead calf on her back, according to KTLA-TV.Passengers aboard Captain Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Watching Safari saw the dolphin with something on her back supported by her dorsal fin, and before long identified it as a dolphin calf. “The dolphin [...]

on March 31, 2013 at 1:56 am /

London Cycling Debuts Bike Friendly Trucks

Approximately 50 percent of all cycling fatalities in Greater London involve large scale lorries (trucks), and  about three-quarters of those vehicles are from the construction industry. In  the interest of protecting bike commuters, the London Cycling Campaign recently released  its Safer Urban Lorry design: a new type of  truck that makes it easier for drivers to spot and avoid cyclists. [...]

on March 27, 2013 at 11:20 am /

E-Commerce Grows Bike Delivery

  The next time you’re stuck in traffic, blame all that stuff you buy online. E-commerce sales jumped 15% last year, to $186 billion in the U.S., and the daily volume of shipments for FedEx and UPS has grown every year since 2009. Although bikes can’t fix the traffic problem, they can help it. Using bikes to alleviate congestion has [...]

on March 27, 2013 at 11:07 am /

Cooking Oil Powers KLM Transatlantic Flights

KLM has been offering biofuel-powered flights for  years,  While the Dutch airline started regularly using recycled cooking oil on some commercial flights between Amsterdam and Paris in June 2011, this latest  usage represents the first time biofuels will be used on a regular weekly  schedule on transatlantic flights. Dutch airline KLM has begun powering some commercial flights on an eco-friendly fuel [...]

on March 27, 2013 at 10:53 am /