The ease at which we can burn hydrocarbons to produce energy has led to huge gains in productivity and quality of life for millions, but it also coincides directly with the extreme rise in carbon dioxide emissions that we...
230,000 activists from Sierra Club, Forecast the Facts, SumOfUs, RootsAction and the Center for Media and Democracy have joined together to urge Google to end its alliance with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). This objection comes just as...
Created by German photographer Michael Najjar, "Space Debris I" is an amazing representation of the satellites, space junk, and everything else currently orbiting Earth. Beautiful, yet frightening, from just one glance it becomes quite obvious that space pollution is already a...
Shoes, specifically made to be recycled, are the latest invention, which is picking up enormous speed with its Kickstarter campaign to attract partners and customers.
The sneakers, ReKixx, are particularly interesting not only because the they have been designed and...
Scientists from around the world are continuously trying to find a solution to the increasing problem of pollution. This being either outdoor or indoor, pollution is one of the main reasons for spreading of viruses, chronic diseases and cancer.
It...
One residential solar power company that has managed to stay relevant, SolarCity, is upping its game-plan to make solar power even more appealing, by supplying backup power packs similar to the lithium-ion battery packs being used by Tesla Motors.
Solar...
Researchers at the Electric Vehicle Symposium have presented some pretty compelling data that may change the way we see hybrid electric vehicles in the future.
In their paper, “An Evaluation Study of Current and Future Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Vehicles...
A Nissan Leaf Owner in Dekalb, Georgia, was watching his son play tennis after school. Perhaps, not thinking about the consequences, he plugged his car into an exterior outlet of the school.
Eleven days later, he was in jail. Whoa,...
On November 15th, Vintage Productions of Kern County, a southern California oil company, was fined $60,000 after being caught on camera dumping fracking waste into an open well site.
An area farmer, Tom Frantz, caught workers from the company dumping...
In 2011, the Mitsubishi Innovative Electric Vehicle (i-MiEV) was first sold for $27,000 and the price was jacked up over a thousand dollars a few months later due to “unforeseen market changes.” Now, in 2013, vehicle prices have dropped...
