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Monday, October 18, 2010
Bananas from Ecuador — 2,700 miles. Grapes from Chile — 5,000 miles. Apples from New Zealand — 8,600 miles. Buying food from in the U.S. often resembles a frequent flier mile stat sheet.
Tags: local, market, agriculture, farmers, GW_Fall10, farms, CSA, Co-op, Community, Country
George Washington University-School of Media and Public Affairs
Monday, October 25, 2010
What's up? That's a question I often find myself wondering when researching solar power since most solar systems inhabit on rooftops.
Tags: Solar Panels, GW_Fall10, Rockville Ice Arena, Tony Clifford, Standard Solar, Lauren Hoenemeyer
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Is the U.S Green Building Counsel’s coveted LEED Certification full of crap? No not really but it is very far from perfect.
Tags: LEED, Nissan Leaf, architecture, GW_Fall10, Waetherization, U.S Green Building Counsel
Planet Forward
Monday, October 25, 2010
They may not be sharks with frickin lazer beams attached to their heads, but they're about as close as you're going to get.
Tags: climate change, GW_Fall10, GWFall_10, elephant seals, antarctica, nahrwals, austin powers, dr. evil
Planet Forward
Friday, December 18, 2009
By Victoria Riess, Mark Abramson & Haley Lesavoy
How much energy are you wasting by throwing out that plastic bottle? Find out!
Tags: carbon footprint, Waste, GW, Environment, recycling, Mark, abramson, earth, forward, haley
Planet Forward
Friday, December 18, 2009
By Victoria Riess, Haley Lesavoy & Mark Abramson
The technology is here, but without an infrastructure to implement it, there will be no progress.
Tags: transportation, carbon footprint, GM, Hydrogen, GW, Environment, fuel, Mark, abramson, earth
Friday, December 18, 2009
By Madeline Twomey & Juliette Dallas-Feeney. Arlington, VA school-teacher Gail Carten explains her participation in GM's Project Driveway- a test market of the hydrogen fuel-cell car, which produces zero emissions. Fall 2009.
Tags: transportation, carbon footprint, GM, fuel cell, GW, JulietteDallasFeeney, MadelineTwomey, cars, general-motors, hydrogen-fuel-cell
Monday, October 18, 2010
by Miranda Green and Andrea Vittorio
The George Washington University group GroW has started a community garden on campus. The result: good food, local honey and a few dirty hands!
Tags: food, GW, sustainable, Bees, Garden, GroW, vegetables, composting, honey, planting season
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
PlaNYC aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in New York City by 30 percent over a 25-year span.