I’ve actually had trouble finding a really comprehensive guide to preparing your home for summer in a way that keeps the utility bills down — AND keeps you comfortable. So, I guess I’m going into the tips business myself.
I love summer — I’m just a warm-weather guy. But there are limits, and of course one […]
Help in doing an “energy audit” of your home and setting things up so that you keep cooler, cheaper.
“The Conservatives’ new environmental platform is a ‘complete and total fraud’ that is ‘designed to mislead the Canadian people,’ former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said Saturday. The noted environmentalist was presenting his Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth in Toronto at a consumer environmental show, with Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and environmentalist David Suzuki in attendance. […]
“The world’s leading climate change experts gather in Bangkok on Monday to come out with a masterplan on limiting the worst impacts of global warming, but are amid deep divisions over how to go about it. At least 400 scientists and experts from about 120 countries are attending the week-long third session of the Intergovernmental […]
“As the temperature rises, so do fuel prices and a push for cars that get good gas mileage. Across the United States, gas prices have increased about 30 cents over the past month, and hybrid vehicle sales are at an all-time high. … According to the Toyota Motor Sales report, the company posted its best-ever […]
“‘We’d never objected to anything in our whole lives,’ says Irish farmer Willie Corduff. But when Shell Oil proposed to put a high-pressure gas pipeline through his family farm, Corduff changed his quiet ways. He and a handful of his neighbors refused to allow Shell on their property — a stance that landed them in […]
“When the rich and powerful gathered for their annual meeting at Davos in January, at the World Economic Forum, climate change was on their collective minds. Signs reading Make Green Pay served as a backdrop for the usual panels, featuring CEOs and high-end pundits holding forth on global finance and the terrorist threat. And, participants […]
“The winds are cold at any time of the year on Germany’s highest mountain but the country’s last glacier is melting away despite Herculean efforts to counter the effects of climate change. Spreading giant anti-glare shields over the glacier each April after piling tonnes of loose snow upon it, workers at the Zugspitezebahn cable car […]
“New York City is throwing away its welcome mat. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a new $8-a-day tax for the privilege of driving into Manhattan (unless you stay north of 86th street). For trucks, it’s even worse: $21 a day. The mayor calls it a ‘congestion fee.’ In fact, it’s a tax and a penalty […]
“Most efforts to improve the nation’s health care finance system involve tinkering with the present insurance-based model. Such efforts are likely to fail in the long run, because insurance itself is the wrong model for part of the system. An ‘insurable event’ — from traffic accidents to tornadoes — is something that: first, is very […]
