Green Options

Extraction and refining heavy oil from Canadian tar sands would have a devastating impact on avian populations, according to a new report from the NRDC.

Melting ice makes life difficult for those who live on it. Just ask the Polar Bear. There are endless signs of the reality of climate change (global warming). Few more definitive than the plight of the polar bear.

There’s great info in this Treehugger article by our very own Jeff McIntire-Strasburg, and the NRDC has created polarbearSOS.org so you can get involved and stay informed about the reality of climate change as it relates to the polar bear.

Life as they once new it, is ending. And they never had the opportunity to see it coming…

The National Resource Defense Council keeps a Bush Record here. I was reading the section on National Forests and Roadless Areas and was relieved to think his reign of environmental destruction will soon come to an end.
Then I thought–damn, he did a lot of damage in 8 years!!!
Then I thought of this…

From a November 21st press release from the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council):

This holiday season meal planners have another good reason to choose locally grown food, according to a national conservation group. A new analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) shows that transporting foods shorter distances results in less smog-forming and global warming pollution.

“Many home cooks and restaurant chefs already know that local food is fresher and tastier,” said Dr. Gina Solomon, a physician and senior scientist

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Green Options writer Maria Surma Manka suggested this simple tip she heard on NPR: change the margins of the documents you print, and save lots of paper. Smaller margins means more text per page with less wasted white space. The idea is simple: by switching the margins from the default 1" or 1.25" to .75" or less, we would us 4.75% less paper. This may not seem much for

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Plug-in hybrids seem like a fantastic technology that could make a serious impact in the amount of petroleum fuel needed for transportation. GM executives have been using the phrase "displacing petroleum" when talking about the long term strategy for powering vehicles in the future. Biofuels, rather than fossil fuels, are drawing a lot of attention, and hydrogen is being explored both as a combustion fuel and for use in fuel cells.

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George W. Bush's record on the environment is reminiscent of the alien invaders in Mars Attacks! Bush, like those Martians, plays the game of placation well when he's in front of a microphone. He's good at saying the right things, he calms our anxious green nerves, and he even occasionally comes close to sounding like an environmental visionary. But the moment we turn our backs, Bush pulls out his laser ray supersoaker gun and [...]

Last year, several major oil companies got together and produced two commercials that tried to convince Americans that the more CO2 we produce, the merrier. We breathe it out. Plants breathe it in. It's part of the circle of life. Just like that Elton John song! CO2 is our life-supporting friend, they said. We need as much of it as we can get. Thankfully, those ads were laughed off the air.

They did,

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In association with the Stop Global Warming Virtual March (started by An Inconvenient Truth Producer, Laurie David), the NRDC (National Resource Defense Council) has released a new slick website that encourages each one of us to get involved and 'Beat The Heat.'

How's it work? Well, you simply enter in your name, where you live, what you're passionate about, and BAM!, you're on the map. There are several ways you committ

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Energy Star, a federal program responsible for determining the energy efficiency of household appliances and electronics, will release the first new standards for PCs in over ten years. 

The last specifications were issued back in 1992 - ancient in computer years - garnering at least 90% of PCs on the market today the Energy Star label. The new specifications, due out in July, are aimed at power supply efficiency and idle power consumption.

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