Climate change may not have played a major role in the presidential campaigns so far, but it certainly was a hot-button issue in 2007. However, as the NY Times points out, while public opinion “had been shifting for some time” and finally “gelled with the surprise success of ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’” the decisions in [...]
So here it is, the zeitgeist of the year 2007- what were the most viewed stories of the year? What kept bringing ‘em back? Sex.
1) How to Green Your Sex Life :Our how-to manual for green sex continues to arouse,? ?month in and month out.? ?Its statement?
“According to The Earth Policy Institute production of photovoltaics (PV) jumped to 3,800 megawatts worldwide in 2007, up an estimated 50 percent over 2006. At the end of the year, according to preliminary data, cumulative global production stood at 12,400 megawatts, enough to power 2.4 million U.S. homes. Growing by an impressive average of 48 [...]
Last New Years many TreeHugger writers posted their resolutions and you voted on which was the best, settling on Graham’s “Actually start carrying around a re-usable bag for shopping.”
It was a great resolution; not too tough and very sensible. Did Graham keep to it? I know that I failed in mine.
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Ari Derfel of Berkeley, California, saved his trash - including what he generated when he went out - for an entire year and ended up with a kitchen and then a living room full (96 cubic feet to be exact) of mostly food packaging, bits of paper, and the odd condom. He composted all his [...]
We thought Mr. Splashypants would swim away with the prize but the glow-in-the-dark bike pedalled into the lead. Both posts show that there is nothing like a bit of controversy to get readers interested! Not including the Gift Guides, which dominated, the top posts of the month of December:
1) New Light Glows For 12 Years: [...]
It looks like Freeplay, creators of self-powered devices like the Lifeline radio and Indigo flashlight, have had a busy year expanding their offerings and updating their website. We are loving the classy looking Weather Band Radio, featuring solar and hand-crank charging and an integrated flashlight, and the wall-mounted Light Center cabinet pictured above is [...]
