I have mentioned a need for a plastic bag tax before, and since then I’ve stumbled upon this wonderful slideshow on exactly what the billions of plastic bags do to our environment, nature, and animals.
This is a can’t-miss. Click here to view the facts on plastic bags. I for one will try my hardest to [...]

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During his campaign for the Presidency, George W. Bush pledged to commit $2 billion over 10 years to advance “clean coal” technology. Since then he’s carried out his promise, advocating the technology and future of its use, based on the assumption that we have a lot of it, and will continue to use it just [...]

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Some of you may have already heard about landfills across the country utilizing their garbage to generate electricity. It sounds like a great idea. They dump the garbage into the landfill and collect the gases that are created while it’s decomposing. Typically, methane is the gas they look for to generate the power, which varies [...]

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From the NYTimes:
In 2002, Ireland passed a tax on plastic bags; customers who want them must now pay 33 cents per bag at the register. There was an advertising awareness campaign. And then something happened that was bigger than the sum of these parts.
Within weeks, plastic bag use dropped 94 percent. Within a year, nearly [...]

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Wired.com’s article says each American’s carbon footprint is at least twice as large as those in other countries, and that’s including the homeless and the Amish. Taking our roads, public and government buildings into account and dividing these up per person, we are simply used to using more and more resources than necessary.
So what, you [...]

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