AP – There was less sea ice in the Arctic on Friday than ever before on record, and the melting is continuing, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.
Arctic sea ice shrinks to record low (AP)
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:21:43 GMT
Archive for August, 2007 Page 8 of 9
Well, there are a few “Street Team” members of Environmental Action outside of my office. After a brief conversation, I’d like to share some key factors of what they do:
- Trying to push all Presidential Candidates to double the current MPG Standard from 22 to 44
- They are NOT Lobbyists
- They do not have Major Corporate Sponsorship
They also have a great well maintained blog, check it out!
The goal is simple, on October 15th (or the ides of October, as I like to call it), all the registered blogs will do 1 of 2 things:
Publish a post on their blog which relates to an issue of their own choice pertaining to the environment.
There are many great places to find information on the web about the environment, some of our favorite are:
- Treehugger – Easily the best environmental blog on the web, Treehugger has a great section called How to Go Green as well as tons of other useful stuff. It’s manned by some 40 writers around the world and contains no less than 14,000 posts!
- Wikipedia’s list of environmental issues – With enough links to keep you busy for hours, Wikipedia should easily set you off on your environmental web travels.
- Digg’s Popular Environment Stories – lists tons of popular posts and articles on all sorts of subjects. Looking forward to seeing some Blog Action Day posts appearing here and on reddit on October 15th!
- Green TV – If you need visual stimulation, Green TV has a lot of videos to get you going, divided up into channels of content, it is eminently watchable.
- We can live green – A lot of things boil down to practicality and We Can Live Green will help you find actual products and consumables that are environmentally friendly.
- IMDB’s Highest Rated Environmental Movies and Documentaries – Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth isn’t the only environmental DVD to watch, check out IMDB’s list of features ordered by user ratings.
Download the 100% Free LocalCooling Application and it automatically optimizes your PC’s power consumption by using a more effective power save mode. You will be able to see your savings in real-time translated to more environmental terms such as how many trees and gallons of oil you have saved.
Local Cooling will:
- Cut your energy bills.
- Reduce the amount of Greenhouse Gas CO2 emissions as a result of your reduced PC power consumption.
- Give you full control over your power mode settings.
- Improve your overall computing experience and efficiency.
- Show you in detail how much you have saved since installing the software.
Learn more about the LocalCooling Application and how it will help you save energy!
Get room-by-room tips for saving money and energy during the dog days of summer with the interactive Energy Star @ home web site. We’ve seen a lot of the tips suggested by Energy Star @ home before, but this interactive tour offers a great way to analyze and improve your home’s energy efficiency one room at a time. Just follow the Launch Energy Star @ home link to get started saving energy and money, and to keep your home cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
Energy Conservation: Save money and energy with Energy Star @ home
Doesn’t seem like it’s fully stocked yet, but that’s the situation all over in the “Green world. However, be sure to check it out and support.
Streetlights aren’t really necessary when there’s a full moon out, what with it bouncing all that sunlight down at us and everything. But your average streetlight isn’t smart enough to know when it isn’t needed, so it sits there, dumbly shining away for no real reason. That’s not the case with the Lunar-Resonant Street Lights, conceptual LED-based lamps that dim down and turn off completely as the moon waxes. When it’s a new moon, it’ll be fully lit up, showing you your path. What results is an energy savings of 90-95%. Not a bad idea. [Civil Twilight Design Collective via Sci Fi Tech]
