Archive for August, 2007
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Seen Before Slumbers: Recycled Sleeping Bags
by Warren McLaren
What’s with the little flurry of outdoor gear posts, you might wondering. Well, the summer trade shows have now passed, and the detail of upcoming goodies is slowing seeping out into the world wide ether. The goss is that Green is big. And only going to get bigger.
Which travel companies are going green?
Climate change is driving customer perception, increasing legislation and increasing costs. Travel bosses should be plotting hard or actively trying to create a business that will work in this era of climate change. But who is paying lip service? Which travel companies are actually doing something and who are sticking their heads in the sand?
Keep readingGreening Air Travel
by Alex Steffen
Air travel seems to be one of the few unsustainable practices for which there is no good fix or substitute. Because of their inefficiency and the high altitudes at which they fly, jet engines are particularly potent greenhouse gas emitters. What’s more, there don’t really seem to be any super-cool engine technologies waiting [...]
Maximixing the Impacts of the Green Lifestyle
by Adrian Muller
In the past few years we have been witnessing the resurgence of a worldwide civil society concerned with the environmental impacts of our actions. And an important facet of this emerging constituency is the belief that by collectively working together it is possible to change things.
Edwards and Obama Announce Mileage Plans
by Hank Green
There’s no doubt, the way the environment is treated in the 2008 American presidential campaign will be of extreme importance fot the country and the world for a very long time. I’ve been a bit worried about the lack of environmental plans coming from the highest profile candidates, but both Edwards and Obama [...]
AeroTrekking: Do We Need This In Wilderness Areas?
by John Laumer
The snowmobiles that spread virus-like into Yellowstone each winter might be viewed as the working-man’s version of the recently designed AeroTrekking vehicle pictured here. Because this is a rich man’s toy, the usual argument for allowing snowmobiles in roadless areas and public lands in general can’t yet be made for the Aerotrekker: e.g. [...]
Carbon Offset Buyers Go Beyond Surface Green
by Emily Gertz
Is buying personal carbon offsets for dirty-fueled travel an effective way to compensate for the greenhouse gas emissions that are heating up the Earth? And does buying them amount to an indulgence, an excuse for buyers to avoid making more substantial changes in how they live, or demanding sane climate policies?
Conservationsts and Developers Face Off Over Pristine Mexican Reserve
by Eliza Barclay
More than 700 academics and researchers affiliated with the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation have called on the Mexican government to put a halt to the development of one of its richest biological treasures, the Chamela-Cuixmala biosphere reserve in Jalisco state on the Pacific Ocean.
Happy Trails: Cycling Holidays Take Off
by Jasmin Malik Chua
More Brits are coming home tanned, toned, and saddle-sore, according to a report indicating a surge in cycling holidays. Biking-mad Brits ponied up some £120m on 450,000 dedicated cycling holidays in 2006, with some operators experiencing as much as a 30 percent increase in bookings, compared with 2005 figures, revealed research by [...]
Ensuring Carbon Offsets Are Real
by Sheryl Canter, Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.
Carbon offsets are a good idea that, unfortunately, without guidelines, can be implemented badly. The basic idea is to reduce and then offset the carbon emissions produced by your lifestyle by funding projects that reduce carbon emissions elsewhere. This works because, from a global warming [...]
TerraPass Does Survey, Feels Better About Self
by Hank Green
TerraPass is one of the world’s leading providers of carbon offsets. Basically, if you feel bad about all the carbon you’re producing, you can give them some money, and they’ll fund projects that offset your contributions to global warming.
Four Myths about Hybrid Cars
by Amory Lovins
More than a million hybrid-electric cars are on the road. Using gasoline engines to turn their wheels through an artful mix of mechanical and electric power, hybrids are such an unexpected market success that they’ve attracted criticism, some perhaps encouraged by jealous rivals.
