by Admin | Oct 11, 2013 | Green Energy, Profiles, Sustainability
Environmentalist and entrepreneur Billy Parish is building a marketplace for investors and community members alike to provide loans for solar installations. Users can make money back on the investment, as opposed to fundraising on other crowdfunding platforms. The...
by Admin | Oct 9, 2013 | Articles, Environmental hazards
As the season changes from summer to fall, the leaves will begin to change and then, gradually, drift from the trees to the ground. For those who have yards, there will be some real work to be done—piling leaves up, then bagging or composting them takes a lot of...
by Admin | Oct 7, 2013 | Articles, Sustainability
Marilyn Monroe made the phrase, “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend,” famous when she performed it in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Monroe’s rendition wasn’t the original—that was done by Carol Channing in the original Broadway musical four years earlier. But...
by Admin | Oct 4, 2013 | Profiles, Sustainability
Have you ever seen a rooftop garden or a green living wall? How about a fence or railing made from sustainably harvested sources? What about a bamboo floor made from the type of bamboo that grows up to six feet per day? You may have witnessed one of the millions of...
by Admin | Oct 3, 2013 | Articles, Climate Change
North and South Americans have endured their fair share of hurricanes throughout the last few decades, the results of which range from storms that leave coastlines ravaged with many residents displaced, to the destruction of entire cities. Hurricanes have the power to...
