Are you sick of getting certain catalogs delivered to your home? There’s a way to make them stop. You can reach out to each individual company or visit catalogchoice.org, click on the catalogs you don’t want and they’ll stop… plus you’ll help the environment!
University of Pennsylvania’s 2010 graduating class will be wearing caps and gowns made of 100% post-consumer recycled bottles, as part of their effort to go green. According to the manufacturer, Oak Hall Cap & Gown of Virginia, the fabric is spun from molten plastic pellets and each gown is composed of about 23 bottles.
There’s been a lot of talk about “Cash for Clunkers” but what exactly is being done with the old, abandoned “clunkers”? Under the program’s terms, dealers must destroy the engine with a sodium silicate solution…which in turn, is creating a huge financial blow to automotive recyclers that would normally reuse those old engines in other [...]
Coming this fall, a $300 million federal program to boost energy-efficient home appliance sales will kick into effect. The program, will authorize rebates between $50 and $200 for purchases of high-efficiency household products, to help families transition to more efficient appliances while simultaneously stimulating the economy. The stimulus can’t come soon enough, as shipments of [...]
Just a small tweak in Microsoft Windows could impact energy consumption on a global level, considering the hundreds of millions of PCs that are draining batteries and sucking energy from power outlets around the world. One study estimated that energy efficiency changes in Windows Vista could be the equivalent of taking 380,000 cars off the road. [...]
Fuel efficient cars like the Ford Focus and Toyota Corolla are used to depict the success of the “Cash for Clunkers” rebate program- but what we don’t hear is that some trucks and sport-utility vehicles like the Ford F-150, that get less than 20 miles per gallon and weigh more than 6,000 pounds when loaded, [...]
Some positive news on the job front in our area- PSE&G’s $515 million project to install solar panels is expected to spur job growth. Both PA and NJ hope to fill the void of at least a portion of jobs lost in the manufacturing industry, with “green jobs.” In NJ, the utility company plans to [...]
Many were relieved to hear that Congress pumped another $2 billion into the “Cash for Clunkers” program, which will keep it in drive until the end of August…but have all of those clunkers lived their lives to the fullest? Sure, some have, but others that would normally be resold at affordable prices, have to be [...]
We’ve been hearing a lot about PA’s ongoing budget saga, but there’s another, more obscure legislative issue involving what some say is the most important piece of environmental legislation in PA. The pending law would strengthen clean-energy standards and put them on par with other states who have more ambitious requirements and would capitalize on [...]
Many companies are going to great lengths in an effort to be environmentally friendly…even wine bottlers. You could begin to see that Cabernet Sauvignon being poured out from a plastic bottle—complete with an expiration date. Plastic bottles weigh about one-eighth of a typical glass wine bottle and take up 20% less space, so winemakers can [...]
