MIT Students Win Grant to Deliver Off-Grid Solar Power
Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have won one of six U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants for economically sustainable programs that protect the environment. Launched...
View ArticleYahoo! Green Aims to Make Planet-Saving Ideas Real
If you doubt there are a lot of clever and green do-it-yourselfers out there, check out Yahoo! Green’s Make It Green gallery, which features — as of today — 21 ideas from real people across the country...
View Article‘Wild Girl’ Forages for Food in Urban Portland
You could call Becky Lerner Oregon’s answer to “Survivorman” … only she’s not a man, and she hasn’t been left stranded in the middle of nowhere with nothing but her wits and a pocketknife to help her...
View ArticleMemphis Burger Kings Serve Up Global Warming ‘Baloney’
While we here at EcoLocalizer generally try to put a focus on the good eco-oriented stuff people are doing around the country, we’ll occasionally spot an egregious instance of anti-green behavior that...
View ArticleFlorida: We’ll Take Your Pythons, Cougars, No Questions Asked
You know those “safe-haven” laws that let parents drop off their unwanted kids in a safe place without fear of consequences? (In Nebraska, it’s even legal to give up an unruly 18-year-old!) Well,...
View ArticleNew Orleans Green Home Stands up to Gustav, Ike
Here’s a rare but welcome thing: good news from post-Katrina New Orleans. Global Green USA’s first ultra-green home in the Holy Cross neighborhood stood strong during hurricanes Gustav and Ike, both of...
View ArticleNew Jersey Set to Boost Its Wind Power
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities is expected to vote next week on a $19 million plan to generate 350 megawatts of electricity with nearly 300 new wind turbines to be installed at various...
View ArticleGreen Science Museum Plans Eco-Friendly Grand Opening
It took almost 10 years and $500 million to plan and complete, but the California Academy of Sciences’ new ultra-green museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is ready to open. The public will be...
View ArticleIt’s Harvest Time, UW-Madison-Style
Volunteers with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s F.H. King Students of Sustainable Agriculture have begun the fall harvest at their 30,000-square-foot organic plot on campus. The green beans are...
View ArticleRutgers Breaks Ground for Biggest College Solar Farm in U.S.
New Jersey’s Rutgers University recently broke ground for a seven-acre solar energy farm on campus. Once completed, the installation would be the largest solar energy facility on any college in the...
View ArticleWhere to Find Miraculous Moringa in the U.S.
Maybe you’ve never heard of Moringa oleifera, a tree native to parts of Asia and possibly the Middle East and Africa. Up until this past week, I hadn’t either. But after reading about the amazing...
View ArticlePensacola Goes Pedicabbing
Pensacola’s not a big city, population-wise, but it’s spread out over a large area that’s more car- than pedestrian-friendly. So it’s nice to see that visitors now have a more eco-friendly option for...
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