Eco Touch: Waterless Carwash
Eco Touch is providing an old product to a new market. While waterless car washing products have been available for over a decade, demand for them in America has been slight. While similar products...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Moves Closer to Renewable Energy Standard
Currently, New Hampshire is the only state in the northeastern United States that has not passed some form of renewable portfolio standards legislation. However, that may change soon. Last week, the...
View ArticleGreen Co-Housing Community Development In Nubanusit
New Hampshire USA's first green co-housing community, Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm, features renewable energy ready and energy efficiently designed residences. The 29 total units include 7...
View ArticleField Guide to Eco-Friendly, Efficient, Effective Print
Design like you give a damn with the second edition of Monadnock Paper Mills' how-to guide for creating more-sustainable print materials. A Field Guide: Eco-Friendly, Efficient and Effective Print,...
View ArticleObama Calls for Cap-and-Trade
Senator Barack Obama proposed on Monday a plan to decrease the United States' dependence on foreign oil―while fighting climate change―by creating an auction system that will require power...
View ArticleWarming Temperatures Stunt Autumn Leaf Colors
Tourists and residents in New England used to receive a spectacular display of color on the second October of every year. However, in recent years, the show has been a bit duller and a bit later than...
View ArticlePresidential Campaign Update: Al & Arnold At The New Hampsire Primary
This is wonderful. A bi-partisan political storm is brewing over New Hampshire because Al and Arnold have found a clever way to inject serious climate discussion into the coming US presidential...
View ArticleFive Questions You Should Ask the Presidential Candidates
This next week is all politics, what with today's Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primaries on January 8. Most Americans are probably already tired of the election coverage, but we're hoping...
View ArticleContemplations On Obama's DeSmogBlog "Award," Blogging, And Presidential...
DeSmogBlog has conferred a controversial award on US Senator and Presidential candidate Barack Obama: It's called the "2007 SmogMaker Award for blowing smoke on global warming." Joe Romm's reaction in...
View ArticleFinally: Environment Plays a Role in a Presidential Election
For the first time in my lifetime the environment is a top-tier issue in a presidential race, as was clearly in evidence in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. It was next to impossible...
View ArticleThe Hidden Costs of Roads
Lloyd has called for sustainable and sound infrastructure. One way to start creating sustainable and sound infrastrucutre might be to show the actual costs of building a bad infrastructure. A new...
View ArticleThe TH Interview: Gary Hirshberg, CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm (Part One)
Before Stonyfield Farm was a $325 million company, Gary Hirshberg was milking the cows and trying to get the bills paid. Now, as the largest organic yogurt-maker, he is fulfilling the original...
View ArticleThe TH Interview: Gary Hirshberg, CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm (Part Two)
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View ArticleMion's Floodgate Takes Recycling In Its Stride
Two years ago when Mion footwear won an ecodesign award we described them as something "you might expect the Jetsons to wear on the weekends." And we wanted the company to be more overt in their green...
View ArticleWal-Mart To Help 20 State Capitals Save Money And Reduce Carbon Dioxide...
Wal-Mart has agreed to help US taxpayers take climate action. Over the next two years, they are sending energy audit teams to 20 State Capitol complexes to help save taxpayers money and help the...
View ArticleUniversity of New Hampshire is First School in US to Run Off Landfill Gas
A few months back we heard about Middlebury College's efforts to green their electricity and heating. Well, over at the University of New Hampshire they're
View ArticleHelly Hansen's New Ekolab Line is Clean and Durable
If any of you have backpacked the Presidential Range and Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, you know that the weather can change in a hot minute. Over the past 20 years, we’ve hiked through hail,...
View ArticleCreating Energy from Landfill Gas Is Far From Myth
Video profile of University of New Hampshire Ecoline™ project. Video credit:UNH and Waste Management.The beginning of a new decade reminds us to also look back at the past 10 years to see how...
View ArticleFlip Side of Local - New Hampshire Sees Opportunity In Food Self-Sufficiency
University of New Hampshire researchers have analyzed the economic impact of their State's locally-produced food system. The good news: farm market sales - known as 'direct marketing' of food -
View ArticleReal Bear Breaks Into Home to Rescue Stuffed Bear
Homeowner Mary Beth Parkinson came home to quite a surprise, a black bear had been rifling through her kitchen before it fled the house taking a stuffed toy bear with it. The bear had entered her home...
View ArticleRon Wallace is the 'Lord of the Gourd' with Record-Breaking Giant Pumpkin
How would you like to carve a Jack-o-lantern from one of these three record-breaking pumpkins from this weekend?
View ArticlePhoto of the Day: An Ice Climber Ascending the Shoestring Gully in New Hampshire
As the temperature drops in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, locals bundle up and get excited. While most wait for the first snow to cover the ski runs, others hold out for those first cold...
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