You don’t have to have a degree and a lot of experience to find ways to use our resources more efficiently. Two years ago, at the age of 7, Mason Perez hypothesized that he was wasting a lot of water when washing his hands. By simply turning down the water pressure using the ...
A digital dad rolls up his sleeves and watches his wife do the dishes so he can review the new Delta Touch2O® Kitchen Faucet. Related posts:Digital Dads in the Kitchen: Moroccan Chicken...
You probably know somebody like this, somebody who still prints out emails and websites to read. Okay, sometimes it’s nice to have a hard copy of something but it’s becoming less and less necessary. With web-ready devices and smart phones, the cloud and gigabytes of online storage, there’s really little ...
Some people are fond of saying that it isn’t the Earth that needs saving—the Earth will be around long after we’re gone. No, it’s we humans who need saving from ourselves. (Need evidence? Look no further than the Gulf, where another oil rig just caught fire.) 6th Mega is a ...
E. O. Wilson knows a lot about ants. A biologist and naturalist who teaches at Harvard, Wilson has a couple Pulitzers under his belt and has written a lot of books on a variety of topics, including sociobiology and “consilience”—the combining of different types of knowledge, like science and the ...
Sustainability has been quite the rage the last couple years, especially in my home town of Portland, OR. It amazes me that people’s appetites seem insatiable for new ways to be more sustainable at work, home, school, and while playing. While much of this noise strikes ...