Imagine biking, or even just walking down the street and being asked to pull over. Then imagine that instead of being handed a ticket for some violation, a local official instead hands you cold cash, and it wasn't even...
The Great Leap Forward can be credited not only for years of neck break growth and for lifting up millions of people out of poverty in China. Unfortunately, it also left in its wake pollution, and lots of it,...
Communication is important to everyone, just as the sun is important to everyone, which outlines the reason for the SOL Laptop, a solar power laptop built for wherever you happen to be.
Indeed, you are reading this article, perhaps in...
Millions of tons of materials are used each year to create the cans, bottles, and bottle caps used by the alcohol industry. Traditionally, the simple option to dispose of the used materials has been to leave them at recycling...
I guess that it comes as no surprise that the Americans are the leading consumers of coffee in the world, downing 400 million cups of coffee per day - equivalent to 146 billion cups of coffee per year. The...
Scientists from University of Texas, Austin and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory claim that plants absorb much larger quantities of carbon dioxide than models have previously predicted. By studying the exact process, through which the gas moves within the...
Five of the world's greatest energy and technology giants have teamed up to construct a demonstration power plant, which will host the first ever superficial carbon dioxide turbine. The technology is part of a unique carbon dioxide power cycle, which...
Researchers in West Virginia University recently published an article in the journal Environmental Science and Technology that tied lung cancer to coal dust released in mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachian mountains. “It’s a risk factor, with other risk...
While closing down its Rav4 EV production in California, Toyota has just activated its electric vehicle sharing scheme in France.
As we earlier reported in The Green Optimistic, the company is offering residents of Grenoble the chance to drive its...
People enter marathons for all sorts of reasons- prove to themselves how strong (physically and mentally) they are, test their fitness levels, raise money for charity, etc., etc., but hardly anyone participates for the health benefits of the activity. And...
