TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| Being Green: 11 Environmentally Friendly Habits The Tissue Issue“Ultra” brands of toilet paper such as Charmin, Cotton­­elle and Quilted Northern may feel soft on your bum, but they’re hard on the environment because they’re made from virgin fiber and bleached with chlorine. Virgin fiber typically comes from trees grown for pulp production or from sawmill leftovers after trees are cut into lumber. The alternative: brands made from 100 percent recycled fiber, preferably with at least 80 percent postconsumer content. You can download a wallet-size buyer’s guide from Greenpeace (www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/forests/tissueguide) or the Natural Resources Defense Council (www.nrdc.org/land/forests/gtissue.asp). [More] rss.sciam.com |
Cagey Solution: Will Nano Traps Make Geothermal Power Earthquake-Safe? Earth's molten mantle is a potentially inexhaustible source of energy that could meet 10 percent of our nation's energy needs, but cost and safety concerns have hampered the growth of geothermal energy. Now, researchers have announced plans to test a more efficient way to tap into safer, low-temperature geothermal stores using nanotechnology. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Campsites the Great Depression Created Trails, campgrounds, lodges -- you name it, the “C.C.C. boys” made it -- and their heartland was a swath of Virginia centered on the Blue Ridge of the Appalachians. travel.nytimes.com |
King of the Playground When you think about it, the Rockwell Group has been in the business of playgrounds for years, creating a showy interior for a glamorous jeweler, a JetBlue terminal and Nobu restaurants from New York to Dubai. So the Imagination Playground at Burling Slip, which opens next summer in a former parking lot near South Street Seaport, is a logical next step. The peanut-shaped park is inspired by midcentury adventure playgrounds, where children used found objects and postwar debris. It features sand ... nytimes.com |
Smart Grid Could Shave U.S. Emissions by 2030 The electricity sector could shave up to 18 percent off its energy use and carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 by aggressively embracing smart-grid technologies, according to a new analysis.Smart grid-related savings would come from a number of factors, most significantly from a "conservation effect" as consumers incorporate feedback on their energy use, the study found. Additional factors include the use of power diagnostics to tune homes and smaller commercial buildings and increased use of wind and solar generation . [More] rss.sciam.com |