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To be honest, we’ve always thought of hostels as being fairly environmentally friendly, especially compared to their big brothers in the hotel industry. Without the massive laundering facilities, industrial-power air conditioning and unlimited shower products in wasteful little plastic bottles, hostels are already a huge improvement over hotels. Still, it’s nice to know many of [...]

We’re still plotting our first solar-powered product purchase, but with all the wacky doodads made to run off sunlight we have to admit the choices are a little bewildering. should we get something useful like a solar-powered mouse for our computer? Or, do we get something that’ll really impress all the folks at the office, [...]

Sure, there’s the huge wind energy plant in Florida, and a massive solar plant was just announced for Austin, Texas, but one of the biggest challenges in becoming more environmentally responsible is in creating green projects in rapidly developing nations. With less capital to put behind massive infrastructural projects, and fast-growing needs for energy that [...]

The other day we bumped into a friend at a red light. He was driving a solar-powered car, and we were in our spiffy new solar boat. The interaction went like so:
Solar Car Boy: “Hey, nice solar boat, what kinda mileage do you get with that thing?”
Listicles: “Oh, you know, 20 nauts per sunrise.”
SCB: “Wow, [...]

The slow, painful death of the airline industry spells great things for rail networks everywhere (even the one just proposed in California). No better time, then, to follow the green transporters at TreeHugger on a tour of the latest innovations in high-speed trains. So throw away that frequent flyer card, and get a glimpse of [...]