Tag: EARTHDAY

Everybody's favorite vice president and climate-change decrier Al Gore is asking YouTube users for some help this month. According to Mashable, Gore and his organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection, are asking people to create videos that both describe the importance of going "green" and urge political leaders to change current climate policies. On Earth Day, which falls on April 22nd, ...

Here's one for you...what do you get when you take Japanese ingenuity, cow dung, four-wheeled transportation, and a bio-fuel processing plant and mix them all together? Why a poo-powered golf cart, of course. Okay, Yamaha's experimental golf cart runs on methane, but that gas is developed from cow dung. This magical process takes place in Japan's Kartori region at a lovely sounding 'burg called ...

Well, it's Earth Day again today and the whole globe seems to be a little more eco-conscious this year. (We think it might have something to do with last year's spike in energy prices, so let's hope it lasts.) Of course, the gadget world is well aware of its dependence on electricity (and the sometimes toxic materials that end up at the dump when this stuff gets tossed), which is why the stream ...