In line with our activities to fully integrate this blog to the web 2.0 communities on the internet, we’ve recently established our own bookmarking site called Green Options to put together in one convenient location all the latest and the best recycling and environmental stories published across the web. Powered by Corank, users of the [...]

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Back in college, a few years ago, my model for the perfect environment-friendly lifestyle was the Walden Pond of Henry David Thoreau. Far from the bustling metropolis and in close communion with nature, nothing could be greener, or so I thought.

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Boulder, CO – Four wilderness lovers and conservation professionals from England, Canada and the U.S., calling themselves “The Jaguars,” departed Albuquerque, New Mexico on the afternoon of October 27, 2009, on a motorcycle odyssey to Merida, Mexico to attend WILD9, the 9th World Wilderness Congress, which runs from Nov. 6 – 13, 2009.

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The No Impact Experiment or No Impact Week begins today October 18, 2009 and will run for 8 days until Sunday, October 25th. Are you ready to do the experiment?

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Sigourney Weaver’s article at Huffington Post about her latest movie, a documentary called Acid Test, is quite frankly a sobering read. Produced by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and originally aired on Discovery Planet Green, Acid Test is a groundbreaking documentary focusing on the rapid acidification of our oceans. She says scientists are “freaked [...]

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I came across the inspiring story of William Kamkwamba, African inventor and co-author of The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, a few days ago on Twitter. Since then, I couldn’t stop thinking about the difficulties and disadvantages this man faced trying to put his idea into reality in his village in Malawi, Africa.

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One of our more popular stories last week was about China taking the leadership on renewables development and overtaking the United States as the world’s largest clean energy market. We waited for an answer and it wasn’t long in coming. Who else would take the cudgels for the US but our own energy capital, the [...]

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Plastic waste into fuel? (Photo: Envion)
If you’ve been following this blog for a while now, you know that plastic recycling is one of the environmental initiatives that we support in this site. That’s why when I came across this news about a company that proposes to convert plastic waste into fuel, I simply couldn’t contain [...]

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The “Algaeus” (Photo: Ariel Schwartz)
Right on the heels of our story on algae-based batteries, is this latest gem in algae-related research: the first ever algae-powered car will do a cross-country trek from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.

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Out of sight, out of mind – that’s the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to most of us. But this floating ocean dump covering millions of square miles of the Pacific is no less real than the computer mouse you’re holding right now, reading this article. It’s out there, slowly constricting ocean life, and we all [...]

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