There’s a scene in the movie Fargo that just doesn’t work for me.  Now don’t get me wrong — I love the movie.  Its smorgasbord of despair, violence and hopelessness always brings a smile to my face.  To me, it’s a perfect movie — except for one little thing.  Remember when Jerry Lundegaard (the excellent [...]

Almost everyone who’s anyone in Hollywood drives a Mercedes or a BMW.  The occassional wanna-be Lexus or Acura crops up, as does the odd heavily advertised sporty Cadillac.  But for those who want to stand out from the crowd as environmentally conscious, the car of choice is the Prius.  (I myself drive one, proving it [...]

Those of us who read and write on talkgreen want to think we’re fairly environmentally savvy. That as the years go by, we’ll keep trying to find ways to live that are easy on Mother Earth? And we’ll continue those habits right up until the day we die, right?
Well what about after that?
Greensprings [...]

I read an article online today claiming that researchers in the UK had discovered a way to wash clothes using only approximately 1 cup of water!  Here’s the article:
 
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/media/press_releases/current/washing_machine.htm
 
They claim that the clothes not only get just as clean, with lipstick and coffee stains removed, but also come out of the washer practically dry, eliminating [...]

(The Canadian Press) WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is listing polar bears as a threatened species but won’t address the thorny issue of global warming that’s causing the decline of their Arctic habitats.
No protection for the climate
The new designation obliges the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to devise a protection plan for the bears, but [...]

OSLO (Reuters) – Greenhouse gases are at higher levels in the atmosphere than at any time in at least 800,000 years, according to a study of Antarctic ice on Wednesday that extends evidence that mankind is disrupting the climate.
Carbon dioxide and methane trapped in tiny bubbles of air in ancient ice down to 3,200 meters [...]

When 17-year-old Matt Willner fueled up his 1999 Volkswagen Beetle, purchased from eBay, he quickly realized that peeling potatoes, not rubber, was the way of his future.
“The engine starts on diesel fuel, heats up the veggie fuel for about 10 minutes until I hit a switch, and it starts running off straight vegetable oil,” Willner [...]

This is probably the safest skateboard/roller-blade/scooter/unicycle ever invented. That’s what I think because the wheel is much like a bicycle wheel so you won’t be troubled by small rocks or concrete edges. It’s such a good invention for people who don’t have to travel very far and don’t have a place to park their bikes [...]