Telluride, Colorado is a unique, environmentally friendly, vacation spot. With several alternative methods of transportation, festivals involved in green efforts, and old-world charm, Telluride is a greener vacation location the entire family will enjoy.

Source:Telluride's Galloping Goose

The nationwide search America’s Greenest School, sponsored by IC Bus, invites students and teachers to explain what their school has done to go green. The winning student will be awarded a plug-in hybrid bus for his or her school.

Source:America's Greenest School 2009

Shade of green: Luscious lime

Items needed: Air compressor, four to six quarts synthetic oil, common sense, willing mechanic

Why this hack: Because you can’t afford a Prius

Heart of the hack: This one’s simple, folks. First, you gotta check tire pressure. Consider: There’s a 1% loss of fuel efficiency for every 2 PSI under maximum pressure (usually in the 35-psi range). So if you’re running at 26 psi, you’re giving up about 5% fuel efficiency. Why, on my 1990 one-ton Chevy pickup (454 and four-on-the-floor, if you care, which you should), that’s… um… 1/2 mpg.

Back in the early aughts, I was browsing in an athletic shoe store on Broadway (might have been David Z), and my eye was caught by a pair of natural kicks in among all the flashy basketball shoes and Air Whoevers. Turned out they were a pair of Adidas Hemp Gazelles, an eco-version of the world famous soccer shoes. I liked the fact that the shoe had an unfinished, organic look, and I’ve long been a supporter of hemp because of it’s eco-attributes (it can be grown on marginal land, with no pesticides and little water, and it grows fast, among other things).

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.