All new homes built in Hawaii will be required to install solar hot water heaters beginning in 2010, cutting energy costs by 30%. The state of Hawaii has a goal of at least 70 percent renewable energy use by 2030. “Achieving this goal is nearly impossible without widespread use of solar water heaters,” Hawaii Sierra Club director Jeff Mikulina says. “The solar roofs bill [...]
Environmental groups, such as the Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Council, are staging a coal plant-by-coal plant attack on any proposed new coal-fired power plant in the United States. Using bureaucratic or legal means, such as zoning or water use, environmental groups have stopped 65 coal plants in the last three years. The LA Times explains its really a war about climate change, “Coal puts twice [...]
Once again I have found a topic for debate as I am pondering the results of higher fuel prices and an increased demand for biofuels.
My question for everyone is one of ethics that I have been muddling through. Here it is:
How ethical can it be to take food from the poor of this world to make fuel for the rich when there is an [...]
Good Jobs, Green Jobs: A National Green Jobs Conference is coordinated by the Blue Green Alliance, a strategic partnership between the United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club. A diverse group comes together to talk about how to move the green economy forward with good, well paying, stable jobs for workers in the United States and beyond.
In this week’s Sierra Club Insider, it was stated that the family vacation is disappearing from American culture.
According to Treehugger, a new study by Oliver Pergams of the University of Illinois-Chicago and Patricia Zaradic of the Environmental Leadership Program found that “the time children spend in nature — particularly the activities we looked at in this study — determines their environmental awareness as adults.”
Citing the same study co-sponsored by the Nature Conservancy, the Grist states
Kids — and adults — these days are “videophiliacs” who prefer their nature through the TV screen rather than personally experienced, says a new study. It estimates that Americans’ participation in outdoor recreation has dropped as much as 25 percent over the past 20 years.
What’s a green family to do? Beyond offsetting your typical trip to Disneyland, there are now many eco travel tours and trips for families. Of course you don’t have to join a tour to take a memorable eco trip with your family. Camping and backpacking provide wonderful opportunities for families to experience nature; however, a well-designed eco trip will allow you to meet other families and take some of the responsibility off of your shoulders.
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