Celsias is a leading climate change website that has been growing at over 50% per month attracting close to 100,000 visits per month from over 120 countries. In July 2007, Celsias will release the next version of its website that will bring together people, projects and funding via an online community to help reduce global warming.
Editor’s note: This week, Celsias writer Jessica Gottlieb revels in the purchase of her first solar-powered appliance — an attic fan. This post was originally published on October 24, 2007.
I’m a green geek.
I like stuff, I’ll confess. I love to buy things. What things? I’m not sure but I’m quite certain I could end up in bankruptcy court $10 at a time so I resist the urge to purchase.
But we needed [...]
Editor’s note: This week, Celsias writer Britt Gordon-McKeon looks at a new savings account option from socially conscious banking trailblazer ShoreBank. This post was originally published on October 16, 2007.
For the first time in the U.S., a triple-bottom line bank (working towards social, environmental and financial goals) is offering a high-interest online savings account. ShoreBank’s new ShoreBank Direct account currently offers a 5.00% APY with a $1 minimum, [...]
Editor’s note: Our weekly post swap with Celsias continues with a subject most people would rather not discuss: poop. Celsias writer A. Siegel reviews Dave Praeger’s book Poop Culture, and muses on the waste involved in dealing with our wastes. This post was originally published on October 11, 2007.
To carry the book openly or to stash it away, that is a question one faces when reading Dave Praeger’s Poop Culture: How [...]
Editor’s note: This week, Celsias editor Craig Mackintosh takes a look at Toyota’s images as a "green" car company, and some issues that could undermine that perception. This post was originally published on October 3, 2007.
When people think of a ‘green’ car, the first that pops into most people’s minds is the Toyota Prius - the world’s most successful hybrid auto. Toyota has been riding a wave of consumer [...]
Editor’s note: This week, Celsias writer Jessica Gottlieb takes a look at some of the practical aspects of incorporating green practices into a household’s routine. Is it easy? Not always. Is it worth it? Definitely! This post was originally published on September 25, 2007.
Yes? No? Maybe so?
The conversations all start the same.
I’d really like to be green but I don’t see myself with a compost pile at [...]
Editor’s note: This week, Celsias’ editor Craig Mackintosh takes a look at one of the biggest threats posed by global climate change: melting permafrost. This post was originally published on September 18, 2007.
As fascinating as it may seem to see a scientist potentially holding a pile of mammoth-poo in his hands, this is not a good sign.
Over 10% of the earth’s surface is covered in tundra, a thin layer of slow-growing plant matter (dwarf shrubs, grasses, mosses, [...]
Editor’s note: Today, we’re pleased to launch a new content partnership with Celsias. To kick this off right, we’re featuring a wonderfully innovative feature from Celsias writer Doug Snodgrass: the JetPack Rating System™. This post was originally published on September 13, 2007.
I once again present the JetPack Rating System™, my weekly effort to help humanity cope with its collective disappointment over the broken promise of personal jetpacks, the Sean Connery-era James Bond standard of [...]
