Today, the world is after you to conserve its resources. Be Green… purrs… in your ear every moment, the earth does not provide for you alone, but for all generations that follow. So where do you start??
How about your toilet? Did you know that your toilet alone accounts for more than 30% of your household water usage? [...]
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Kudos to L.A.! Faced with a dire water shortage from a brutal 3-year drought, Californians were asked earlier this year to cut their water usage by 10%, then another 10% and in some water districts 20%. That’s a tall order, but Los Angeles residents have far exceeded water conservation expectations. According to the Los Angeles [...]
A three-year drought has California reeling under a water crisis that threatens to cripple the state. The water emergency has forced drastic mandatory cuts in water use and sent water rates soaring. Water shortages have forced the state to choose between supplying water to its people or its farms. It’s a choice more states will [...]
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You can get people to act by threatening them with a stick, but they’ll do what you want willingly if you reward them with a carrot. That’s the idea behind carrotmobs, a new grass roots phenomenon that’s sprung up to support eco-friendly businesses and products like SelectAFlush dual flush toilet retrofit kits.
Carrotmobs are an about-face [...]
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You don’t have to wait for government regulation to start conserving water. There are many things you can start doing today to reduce your personal water “splashprint” (think carbon “footprint”). Just as people jumped on the recycling bandwagon and started carting their recyclables to neighborhood centers long before municipalities began curbside pickups, it’s time for [...]
It’s time to get serious about water conservation. Drought has forced many communities to declare water emergencies and institute aggressive water conservation measures. But once the crisis eases, restrictions are lifted and people go back to their old water-guzzling ways. When the next drought comes along – and climatologists assure us it will – we’re left as [...]
Little boys in Pennsylvania were happy, but their parents weren’t pleased. A water crisis last week meant no baths and McDonald’s for dinner in many homes. Low water tank levels in Washington County outside Pittsburgh caused Pennsylvania American Water to ask residents to voluntarily stop using water for showers, dishwashing, flushing, cooking or drinking. Drinking [...]
Over the next 50 years, water shortages combined with population growth could squeeze ranching and farming off the Texas landscape, warns to a report issued by State Comptroller Susan Combs. With no new water sources to exploit, increasing water demand from population growth — expected to double to 44 million by 2050 – could drastically decrease the [...]
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These days when the federal government takes on a preservation project, the emphasis is not just on restoring history, it’s on going green. When the National Trust for Historic Preservation took on restoration of President Lincoln’s summer mansion near Washington D.C., they didn’t merely restore the buildings to their mid-1800s glory, they greened them. Ordinary [...]
It’s exciting to contemplate some of the amazing ideas floating around the scientific community to save water, save energy, save the environment, and, ultimately, save the planet. In the future, a swimming pool full of water could provide enough energy to power the world (see our last post). In the future, technology could allow us to reclaim, [...]