Knowing is half the battle: Biodiesel

Clayton over at Green Options has written a great FAQ style article on Biodiesel. Turns out this is a very accessible fuel for anyone, not just fanatics. If you own a diesel vehicle or might be in the market for a car soon, check it out. It’s also a good link for anyone who wants [...]

Les mégots à CBC News

Starting Tuesday in Montreal, people caught littering can be fined from $60 to $1,000. In whatever way this video is connected to that upcoming crackdown. I do think it is pretty awesome that he gave the cigarette butts back to the guy. Smoking is gross enough on its own without jerks like the guy in [...]

Bush planning to cut Endangered Species Act, again.

Back in 2004 the Bush administration trimmed back the Endangered Species Act. Presuming that no one will remember that they already screwed with this once, they are chopping it again.
Fish and Wildlife Service Director H. Dale Hall is not releasing the current proposed version of the changes. However the previously leaked version showed that it [...]

Knowing is half the battle: 3.23

There’s a lot of interesting things going on this week. Here are just a few of them.
White house made 181 secret edits to 3 climate reports. Philip Cooney, former chief of staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, acknowledged at a House hearing that some of the changes he made were “to align [...]

Plastic bags suck

Back in my day the main celebrity contribution to society was as tabloid filler and dubious role models. The closest any of them got to activism was making the headlines with, “Today in Hollywood several environmental activists were injured when a celebrity accidentally flipped their Ferrari full of cocaine into the crowd.”
The times they are [...]