May 21st, 2013 
Justin Manger 
Yes, big improvements in air quality have been made over the last several decades. However, there is still some foul air out there, and most of it can be found in California. According to the American Lung Association’s State of the Air Report for 2013, of the top 10 areas in the U.S. with the [...]
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Tags: California, Carbon Dioxide, Environment, Pollution 
No Comments » April 30th, 2013 Justin Manger 
The city of Eindhoven in the Netherlands has literally gone above and beyond in their quest to make bicycling convenient and yet compatible with car travel. With one quarter of transportation in the region done by bike, it was important to find a way that people could bike while not clogging up the A2, which [...]
Posted in Behavior, Green Building, Justin Manger, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Bicycles No Comments » April 15th, 2013 Justin Manger 
From the Ocean Conservation Society, using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), this infographic is full of staggering and somewhat depressing facts like fishing line lasts up to 600 years before it biodegrades. We’ve posted about this before but it is worth remembering. This is especially true as we run around with hectic schedules that leave [...]
Posted in Behavior, Conservation, Justin Manger, News, Oceans, Sustainability Tags: Environment, Water Conservation No Comments » April 6th, 2013 Justin Manger 
Opower, which we profiled earlier, recent appeared in a New York Times article about the influence of peers and peer pressure on behavior. The article starts off by talking about a “social norming” experiment at Northern Illinois University to tackle the heavy drinking problem found on campus. Basically, by changing students’ perceptions about how much [...]
April 5th, 2013 Justin Manger 
The following facts come from a piece in the New York Times on the cost of the break-neck pace China’s economic growth is having on the environment. Political ramifications will be large if the country cannot reign in some of the side effects of runaway development. In 2010, the cost of environmental degradation in China [...]
Posted in China, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, News, Policy Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Coal, Environment No Comments » April 2nd, 2013 Justin Manger 
Luxury electric-car maker Tesla Motors reported a profit for the first quarter of 2013, the first profitable quarter since the maker of $70,000 EVs went public in 2010. Shares of the car company were up at much as 22% after the announcement. With a backlog of 15,000 vehicles, Tesla said that it delivered more than [...]
Posted in Business, Justin Manger, Transportation Tags: Cars, Electric Vehicles, Green Technology, Tesla Motors No Comments » April 1st, 2013 Justin Manger 
Here is a continuation of various trivia and tidbits about the people that bring you news, analysis, and opinion on 2nd Green Revolution. We shift the spotlight to Stephen Wade. The first half of his answers to the questionnaire that was given to our writers can be found below. Focusing on urban planning, Stephen has [...]
March 22nd, 2013 Justin Manger Two trends in the atmosphere – that globally the air is getting warmer and wetter – are increasing the chance of heat waves, downpours, and other extreme weather. These statistics from the National Geographic are clear on the trend. The Earth’s surface has increased 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit since 1970. Moisture in the atmosphere has risen [...]
March 2nd, 2013 Justin Manger This week’s Five Friday Facts is a short and sweet set of numbers from a recent NPR article. The natural gas revolution is exactly that. Until recently, half of U.S. power plants burned coal to make electricity. Now, that’s down to about one-third. Since 2010, about 150 coal plants either have been retired or it’s been [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Economics, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, News Tags: Natural Gas No Comments »
