Toxic Air and Our Children’s Schools
Air pollution drives me nuts. You can’t see it, you can’t touch it, and unless it’s really bad, you can’t even smell it. And unlike water pollution, you can’t even filter it out of your life.
So I was pretty disturbed to see this report that just came out from USA Today that took a look [...]
Skip The Water Cooler
The office water cooler is an excellent place for gossip, but not so great for the environment. According to the Environmental Protection Agency,
Water coolers use 4 billion kilowatts of energy each year, producing annual pollution roughly equivalent to the emissions of over 700,000 cars.
In addition, the agency estimates that Americans spend $300 million each [...]
Dive Into A Carpool
How much does your car weigh? Personally, I can’t answer this question except to say that my car is pretty darned heavy. That’s why I find it so disturbing with the findings from FuelEconomy.gov that “most vehicles produce several times their weight in greenhouse gases each year.” The amount of time we spend behind the [...]
No Idling!
A recent Yale University study found that children who ride a school bus are exposed to up to 15 times more particulate pollution than average. That’s bad news for the 24 million American children who ride a school bus each day. Researchers estimate that this increased exposure is due to the idling and [...]
