Congressional officials announced today that the government plans to suspend the “cash for clunkers” program since concerns were raised that it could rapidly run out the $1 billion in rebates for new car purchases. The Transportation Department called lawmakers’ offices to alert them to the decision to suspend the program at midnight Thursday. The program [...]

Spreading the word about how to leave the smallest carbon footprint doesn’t have to be complicated or hard, especially with so many opportunities for everyday users to have a web presence. On the web, who you have the capability of reaching is endless and there’s really no better way to share all the environmentally friendly [...]

London Mayor Boris Johnson’s environmental adviser, Isabel Dedring, said climate projections show that the average summer temperatures in London could be at least 3.9C higher by 2080, and as much as 6C to 10C on the hottest days. A recent study suggested that increasing the amount of greenery in a city by 10% could offset [...]

Air conditioner efficiency is marked on the side off all units as a number called the EER (Energy Efficiency Rating). The Energy Efficiency Rating is a ratio of the BTUs of the unit to the amount of power it consumes in Watts. That means that an air conditioner with 10,000 BTU capacity and an EER [...]

It’s been debated for years – are tanning beds more carcinogenic than just sitting in the sun for an hour? Turns out, much to the chagrin of tanning salon owners, that tanning beds are guilty as charged. A report by the International Agency for Research on Cancer changed the category for tanning beds and other [...]

The federal government’s cash-for-clunkers program has renewed the car-buying excitement into auto dealers’ showrooms during the weekend and Monday even while concerns surfaced about the complications surrounding the program and how long it will last. The program provides vouchers ranging from $3,500 to $4,500 as an incentive for consumers to turn in older vehicles to [...]

Serious hottie Gisele Bundchen is a cartoon eco-hero! A new kids company called A Squared Entertainment has joined AOL to produce a set of webisodes for kids including one called GiGi & the Green Team. Along with Bundchen, the webisodes will feature other stars including Warren Buffett, Martha Stewart and the late Carl Sagan. Rather [...]

According to drought statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 77 of Texas’ 254 counties are in extreme or exceptional drought, the most severe categories. No other state in the continental U.S. has even one area in those categories. In the San Antonio-Austin area, the conditions that started in 2007 are being compared to [...]

Kid Rock and beer just seem to go together. And fittingly, the singer has launched his own brew, American Badass Beer. What else would it be called? Kid describes his new brew as “American-style lager – easy to drink without an aftertaste.” Interestingly,  to produce the brew, Kid has teamed up with the Michigan Brewing [...]

Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has returned to Iraq for the third time to speak to four families who are part of the 3 million people who have been displaced by the war. Jolie is touring the outskirts of Baghdad on behalf of the UN Refugee Agency. In the photo, Angelina Jolie speaks with an internally [...]