DEARBORN–Does everyone, at this point, understand what a plug-in hybrid is? Start with something like the Toyota Prius, and add a big second battery pack. Then add plug-in charging, so the car is capable of 30 to 40 miles of all-electric range. That way, if your commute is just 10 miles, you need never use gasoline, but the range — up to 300 miles — is there if you need it.

Alexandra,
You’ve written about SIGG as being a good brand bottle to use in the past. What are you going to do now that they’ve admitted to using BPA in their bottles? I’m not sure what to do with the ones I have.
Best,
Sally (mom of three)

Dear Sally,

Thanks for the question. Crazy, right? But not entirely unexpected. It’s been known for a while now that SIGG goes after any consumer group (EWG, OCA etc.) that infers their “proprietary” liner content contains BPA. They have also released reports proving that there are undetectable levels of BPA in their bottles. Why would they test for it and release reports about it if it weren’t in there? Consumers who prefer total transparency and want to avoid plastic have long preferred stainless steel bottles to SIGG’s lined-with-a-secret aluminum. …

No Impact Man, the new book and movie from Colin Beavan, receives a rather biting review in the New Yorker. Critic Elizabeth Kolbert refers to Beavan’s efforts to live one year with no environmental impact as a “stunt.” Given the fact that he continued to work, blog and write in a fully electrified office in New York City (as did his wife), Kolbert rightfully points out that a better title might have been Not Quite So High Impact Man.

Your grandparents probably grew up on a diet of organic food, much of which was locally grown. Of course, they didn’t pay a premium for it, and they didn’t have to listen to a bunch of politically-correct blather about it, either. It was just … food.

Fast forward sixty years, and we’re once again heading toward a diet of organic food. But what makes food “organic,” and is it worth the extra cost? Check out the facts and decide for yourself.

Source:Isn't all Food Organic?

The case for so-called “clean coal” as a source of energy has gotten really dirty. Energy researchers and coal advocates agree that clean-coal technologies don’t currently exist, but that didn’t stop one lobbying firm from engaging in scummy — and possibly illegal — practices on behalf of the coal industry.

Bonner and Associates, a Washington lobbying firm that specializes in drumming up “grassroots” activism, forged letters to members of Congress, urging them to vote against greenhouse-gas legislation. The letters were written using phony letterhead, and signed by non-existent people, making it appear they came from the NAACP and a Hispanic minority-rights group, the Creciendo Juntos.