Following is the sixth in a series of six personal stories, complied by the Community Environmental Council of Santa Barbara, CA, and presented here at Ecology-Today in the hope of inspiring your own resolutions for a more eco-friendly New Year.
Senior Cottages Get a Makeover
With energy costs in the neighborhood of $29,000/year and an annual budget [...]
Following is the fifth in a series of six personal stories, complied by the Community Environmental Council of Santa Barbara, CA, and presented here at Ecology-Today in the hope of inspiring your own resolutions for a more eco-friendly New Year.
Tackling the ‘Electronics Corner’
Shams Barnhart
CEC loaned a Kill-A-Watt meter to Shams this summer and asked him [...]
Following is the fourth in a series of six personal stories, complied by the Community Environmental Council of Santa Barbara, CA, and presented here at Ecology-Today in the hope of inspiring your own resolutions for a more eco-friendly New Year.
Slaying Home Energy Vampires
Kay Rhoney
“I have lived in my home for over 15 years. I [...]
Following is the third in a series of six personal stories, complied by the Community Environmental Council of Santa Barbara, CA, and presented here at Ecology-Today in the hope of inspiring your own resolutions for a more eco-friendly New Year.
Water-Wise
When Margaret Jose bought a home in Santa Barbara in 2001, one thing was clear to [...]
Following is the second in a series of six personal stories, complied by the Community Environmental Council of Santa Barbara, CA, and presented here at Ecology-Today in the hope of inspiring your own resolutions for a more eco-friendly New Year.
Living Happily on the 100-Mile Diet
by Eric Lohela
Where does my food come from? As a child, [...]
Increasing production of advanced biofuels to meet or exceed the goals of the United States’ Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) can significantly reduce its reliance on petroleum, says the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). These comments were made by Brent Erickson, executive vice president of BIO’s Industrial and Environmental Section in reference to yesterday’s (December 25) release by the [...]
New technologies will permit rapid decarbonization of the world energy economy in the next two decades, according to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute. These new energy sources will make it possible to retire hundreds of coal-fired power plants that now provide 40 percent of the world’s power by 2030, eliminating up to one-third [...]
In the coming days, Ecology-Today will present a series of six personal stories, complied by the Community Environmental Council of Santa Barbara, CA, in the hopes of inspiring your own resolutions for a more eco-friendly New Year.
The One-Car Couple
by Amanda Combs and Matt Eastwood
Like most people, my spouse and I want to have as little [...]
Green had a great run. But it’s dead. I look at the news, and I can just feel the conflicting currents.
Everything was gung ho for a while in the green movement. It had a great run from 2005 until 2008, and then it died. That’s right: the green movement died. It’s dead. Completely and utterly [...]
The creation of millions of jobs are a likely result of the impact of the emerging global ”green economy” as the work force deals with the impacts of climate change says the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
In its recent report titled Green Jobs: Towards Decent work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World, UNEP says changing patterns of employment and [...]
Nearly one in four of the world’s mammals are at risk of disappearing forever says the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The extinction crisis is confirmed in IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species which contains the world’s most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals.
The IUCN report shows at least 1,141 of the 5,487 [...]
If you think global warming and climate change are new phenomena, you may want to think again. Undoubtedly human activity affects global warming today, but history shows that climate change is cyclical as well.
Information taken recently from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the [...]
