by grayisgreen | Dec 21, 2011 | Healthy Aging, Taking Action
If you are wishing for some good news out of Washington, here’s something: the Obama administration just issued tough new rules curbing mercury and other poisons emitted by coal-fired utilities this week. For the first time, explains Corbin Hiar on the website...
by grayisgreen | Dec 15, 2011 | Home & Garden
photo credit: Luis Argerich/Flickr 1/23/12 UPDATE: Now a new documentary, The City Dark, looks into the science on environmental and health effects associated with lighting up our cities and suburbs. With a rack of awards already received, The City Dark may well be...
by grayisgreen | Dec 14, 2011 | Healthy Aging, Home & Garden, Taking Action, Uncategorized
Up until recently, it only took one extreme weather event to make a year stand out. We recall the heatwave of 1995 or the deep freeze of 1996—very memorable for me as the high temperatures in Duluth, Minnesota, where I was living briefly, stayed at all of 20 below...
by grayisgreen | Dec 12, 2011 | Home & Garden, Taking Action
Thanks to President George W. Bush and his positively brilliant idea to sign into law in 2007 a federal energy bill establishing energy-efficiency standards for light bulbs, inventiveness in the lighting sector has been unleashed, and manufacturers are on fire with...
by grayisgreen | Dec 7, 2011 | Home & Garden
Think about this: Most of what we pay in our home energy costs goes to heating and hot water. For the average U.S. home, we fork over about $2,200 a year for energy bills, and the Department of Energy estimates heating and hot water make up more than 60 percent of...
