This web site has a great list of all mechanical modes of transport and their passenger miles per gallon (number of passengers the vehicle can hold multiplied by its MPG. For example a 20 MPG car that can hold 4 would be 80 passenger MPG). The most efficient are trains. They get great passenger miles …
350.org is a site worth knowing about. It is at the helm of a very sensible movement to get the CO2 levels of the world back down to 350 part per million, which is a safe level. Right now they are at 387 and it isn’t very clear whether they will keep going up or …
We got our order of milk paint, all 160 pounds of it. yes pounds. Not gallons. It comes in powder form and you add the water. It is produced by The Old Fashioned Milk Paint Co. and their web site is the very clear MilkPaint.com. They have a new line of paint called Safe Paint. …
GreenRoofs.org is my favorite green roof resource on the web. Run by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities the web site is full of useful info. If you ever wanted to put a green roof on your New York home then that should be the first place to look. When we are researching the best way …
The web site and group called Clean Gowanus Now! has a url of .org, which leads you to think it is a non proffit with community based objectives. But the site and the group are a scam. The group has these following entities behind it: Africa-Israel, U.S.A. (Involved with the Scarano creation at 340 Bond …
BuildingScience.com offers a lot of good material. Like the name implies it is the science of building. Air sealing, wall construction, crawl space insulation etc. It is a good place to go to if you aren’t sure what the best way to seal a window is. They have very objective views on common building techniques. …
Green Source Magazine is backed by a MAMMOTH: McGraw Hill Construction. To give you an example of how powerful they are, McGraw Hill’s construction related web site is construction.com. Anyone who can get their hands on that web domain is a major player in the building industry, if not one of the largest. McGraw Hill …
This web site has some cool stuff. It is called Conservation Technology and has a very sensible approach to building green. They really get it.
I was checking out some cool plant pottery at this site PedlersWaggon.com. The pottery holds water and lets it out slowly, keeping the plants fresh during times of no rain. Very cool. And then I noticed on the shopping cart page a little note that said: “We ask that wherever you may live to refrain …
