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

A recent study published in

Chronobiology International supports the hypothesis of a link between nighttime exposure to light and breast cancer. (This hypothesis originated from studies of shift-workers, which led to the International Agency for Research on Cancer to classify night-shift work as a probable human carcinogen.) Researchers... Read more

LEED 2009 codifies a broadening of what had been a credit for “carpet systems” to a credit for “flooring systems.” The credit, which originally recognized the indoor air quality benefits of using Green Label-certified carpet, was broadened in October 2006 to include resilient and hard-surface flooring materials certified through the FloorScore... Read more

Under the Montreal Protocol, as the 1987 international treaty to protect the stratospheric ozone layer is known, signatory countries agreed to phase out chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), and certain other ozone-depleting substances. In the original treaty and subsequent amendments, the cap in HCFC consumption for... 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

Cross-linked polyethylene tubing, known as PEX, has become a common choice for water-supply piping in buildings, holding 40% of the nationwide market, according to one manufacturer. It has not been allowed statewide in California, however, due in part to various environmental concerns. Following the completion of an environmental impact report... 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).