The billboard really is capped with solar panels, producing 3.4 kilowatts of electricity during the day. This is more than the billboard uses on a day-to-day basis, so it actually does feed power into the grid. Though, of course, it’s negligible. But we can’t help but love it anyway.
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Money for education => More School Buses
”We must change development patterns to build more walkable communities closer to schools,” said 1000 Friends of Maryland Executive Director Dru Schmidt-Perkins, releasing the group’s Yellow School Bus Blues report on just one ”hidden cost” of recent sprawl practices statewide, which shows that total school fleet trips in the state’s 23 counties have increased between 1992 and 2006 by 23 million miles to 117.2 million, and that combined county busing expenditures have risen from $215 million to $436 million.
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Vigorous exercise reduces weight gain risk
ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 6 (UPI) — People who say they do about 30 minutes of jogging, bicycling or swimming a day were twice as likely to maintain a stable weight, a U.S. study found.
Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine researchers said a consistently high level of physical activity — 30 minutes a day of vigorous activity — from young adulthood into middle age increases the odds of maintaining a stable weight and lessens the amount of weight gained over time.
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"The results will hopefully encourage young people to become more active and to maintain high activity over a lifetime," Hankinson said in a statement.
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The hybrid car, misleading as the "low-fat cookie" with 500 calories
From a local Green discussion group:
Unfortunately the “Hybrid car” has already been hijacked as a
green marketing term by the manufacturers (including Toyota) so that
it is now as misleading as the “low-fat cookie” with 500 calories.
Lexus and Ford luxury cars and SUV’s are among the offenders.
A Prius is good, but for many driving patterns, no better than a
Honda Fit, to name one of many alternatives. And a Prius emits more
fossil CO2 than a VW Golf diesel burning diesel fuel blended with 50%
recycled vegetable oil.
My overly-pedantic point: Hybrid is not synonymous with fuel
efficient, nor is it the only or best way to reduce automotive CO2
emissions!
I agree completely. The Chevy Tahoe Hybrid gets 21 mpg in the city and
22 on the highway yet somehow was named “Green Car of the Year”. The
mind boggles.
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Biking on the Cheap
As the issues of energy and the environment cruise into the consciousness of more Americans, people are looking for ways to help conserve energy and reduce the pollution they produce. Big business has taken notice and is ready to sell you all sorts of stuff to help you
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Zero Waste System
An environmentally and economically sustainable system where resources are kept in the production cycle
Rather than looking at our production systems as one way and linear, we can redesign them to be cyclical, as in nature, where there is no such thing as
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Gas guzzlers get new lives — as tire-smoking hybrids
WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) — On a beautiful, crisp late fall afternoon, rock icon Neil Young took his 1959 Lincoln Continental for one last spin before a team of mechanics ripped out its gas-guzzling engine to make way for an electric motor.
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"If we’re going to make a difference, truly make cars more environmentally friendly," Young said, "we have to make that emotional connection."
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The Lincoln’s new electric engine will power the car and when it begins to lose juice, Young will simply flip a switch and the car will run on biodiesel fuel until the electric motor is recharged. "A 19-foot-long car, the longest car ever made at its time. Two and half tons, the heaviest car at its time," Young said, "And it can get 100 miles to the gallon, not 10 miles to the gallon."
Young renamed his car Linc-Volt, and is making a movie about the transformation, which he hopes to release next year.
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Global Warming a risk management issue
[An interesting YouTube video on Global Warming]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_anaVcCXg
An undeniable conclusion. (Go ahead. . . Try.) WARNING: mature content may be disturbing to some viewers.
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100% Wind-Generated Electricity for your home in Maryland
In the past, electric utilities such as BGE were tightly regulated by state laws. You could buy power only from your local utility and only at the price set by the state’s Public Service Commission (PSC).
Now a number of states – including Maryland – have changed the laws and regulations that govern the electric industry. These changes are part of deregulation. This doesn’t mean there will be no regulation. It means competition and customer choice will occur on the electric supply side of the industry. With deregulation, a number of electric suppliers are allowed to compete for your business.
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Recycling in Maryland
A question came up on where to dispose of Hazardous waste and the only convenient option I have found is Baltimore County
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