by Hichem Omezzine
A recent publication by McAfee suggests that an estimated 62 trillion spam emails were sent worldwide in 2008.  The paper argues that this volume of spam requires an energy use of 33 billion kilo-watt hours which is equivalent to:

The electricity used in 2.4million homes in the US
GHG emissions of 3.1 million passenger [...]

With so much at stake, corporate interests, bias media, revolving door politicians, and those who follow them are flooding the airwaves with false truths, and flat out propaganda to mislead and confuse the average person. And with almost unlimited funding via large corporate donors, they have made a relentless push to stop environmental action in [...]

The Rainforest Action Network, Biofuelwatch and the Organic Consumers Association among other environmental groups sent a “letter of concern” this week to policymakers about the use of biochar to mitigate climate change.
Biochar is a charcoal-like soil additive made from cooking biowastes like chicken manure, wood chips and sewage sludge at high heat with little or [...]

Chico Mendes

A Brazilian rubber tapper turned union organizer and environmentalist. Chico Mendes was one of the earliest and most vocal opponents of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. When rubber prices fell, and cattle ranchers started buying up the jungle and burning it to the ground, Chico organized non violent resistance movements to stop them [...]

President Barack Obama’s grandmother recently had her house in Kogelo, Kenya outfitted with solar panels through Greenpeace’s Solar Generation program. The program, which also installed solar panels on the Senator Barack Obama School in Kogelo, is a 20 day workshop to teach young Kenyans about the benefits of solar panels, as well as how to [...]

Disposable Cameras
Yes camera’s can be complicated and expensive, but not so much as to warrant using a disposable piece of junk that doesn’t even take good pictures. A point and shoot digital camera can be had for under one hundred bucks these days, and used 35mm film cameras are so hard to sell that many [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored Solar Decathlon pits 20 teams from around the world against each other in a contest to build the best solar-powered house. The teams have three weeks to assemble their houses, which are mostly constructed ahead of time at a different location. The houses, which line the National Mall in Washington, [...]

Even those who bring their canvas bags to the grocer religiously forget them from time to time. If you’re like me, you have a cabinet full of plastic bags still leftover from the pre-reusable bag days. Plastic shopping bags are quite a nuisance to both the consumer and the environment, but luckily, there’s a ton [...]

By Mark Johnson