They found Greg, and his car, yesterday — a month after he mysteriously disappeared. According to the Denver Post, he had slipped off the road and rolled into a ravine. Daily Camera has a more detailed article.

I was hoping that when we found out what happened to Greg, even if the news was bad, there would be relief in the closure.... Read more

From photographer Kevin Bauman's website. See them all.

The toilet from St. Thomas Creations in the video below doesn't qualify for GreenSpec — it's a 1.6gpf toilet (the federal minimum), and GreenSpec requires 1.28gpf or less — but it sure is fun to watch it flush stuff. (More fun than miso in condoms, anyway.) What do I mean by "flush stuff"?

Over the past few weeks, we've been looking at wood burning--a popular and affordable heating option in rural New England. Ten or 15 years ago, a new option started showing up. Driving along country roads, we began to see shed-like structures with smoke... Read more

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By David R. Macaulay

The rich and varied desert landscape of the McDowell-Sonoran Preserve links vital open space, wildlife corridors, and adjacent communities in central Arizona. Lost Dog Wash Trailhead, the southern gateway to the preserve, is at once a visitors’ center, an outdoor education facility, and access point for... Read more

Sustainable buildings don’t always look green, but the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, is one that does. Covering the 400,000-square-foot building, which replaces a complex damaged beyond repair by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, is an undulating 2.5-acre living roof dotted with porthole-like skylights.... Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced new draft specifications for certifying high-efficiency urinals under its WaterSense label. Launched in 2006, the WaterSense certification and labeling program designates water-efficient products that have been third-party tested to meet EPA standards (see

EBN July 2006).

GreenSpec... Read more

I just returned from the Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change conference (www.beccconference.org), so it was coincidental to see your article “Energy Dashboards, Using Real-Time Feedback to Influence Behavior” (see EBN Dec. 2008). I’m amused by yet another technological solution to conserve energy. I’m sure dashboards are an effective way to... Read more

In February 2009, amid a wave of executive actions establishing his administration’s priorities, President Barack Obama ordered the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to raise the federal standards for energy efficiency in a variety of appliance categories.

Whitestone Research recently released the results of a study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) evaluating the cost-effectiveness of retrofitting an older building to meet the requirements of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, which mandates that federal buildings reduce their energy consumption 30% by 2015 (... Read more

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