May 9th, 2013 
Chris DeArmond 
After receiving feedback from stakeholders including oil refiners and auto manufacturers, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed standards in March that could greatly reduce vehicle pollution and increase public health. Passing the mandate, which would go into effect in 2017, would come at a price to consumers, but the EPA states that the benefits could outweigh [...]
April 21st, 2013 Stephen Wade 
What does it mean to be green? In the modern era, its meaning has evolved from Rachel Carson’s documentation of pollution in Silent Spring, Teddy Roosevelt and and John Muir’s founding of the National Parks, and Henry David Thoreau’s solitary musings in Walden to a more complex, integrated, consumption-based, and urban meaning exhibited by Al [...]
January 3rd, 2013 Chris DeArmond 
As a Florida native, I can’t offer much personal insight into how to best setup your wood-burning stove or fireplace. Luckily, the Environmental Protection Agency can tell you how to burn the right wood, the right way. By following these guidelines, your fires will burn cleaner, hotter, and more efficiently. Before you even start, it’s [...]
December 29th, 2012 Justin Manger 
Early next year, Lisa Jackson will step down from her 4 year tenure as Environmental Protection Agency chief. Known for her aggressiveness, she fought long and hard with Republicans looking to curb the Environmental Protection Agency’s powers. She also was instrumental in pursuing the first U.S. greenhouse-gas regulations, though she eventually came up short of [...]
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Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Environment, EPA, Washington DC 
No Comments » December 13th, 2012 Chris DeArmond 
It may come as a surprise, but automakers are actually the ones who produce the all-important fuel economy figures displayed on window stickers. The reason the numbers are “EPA-certified” is because they are calculated using standardized methodology developed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Essentially, vehicles are hooked up to a dynamometer and run through a standardized driving [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Transportation Tags: Cars, Chris DeArmond, EPA, Ford, Hybrids No Comments » December 9th, 2012 Eric Wilson 
This isn’t necessarily an anti-government (federal or local) or a libertarian post, but it will have hints of both. As much as certain administrations have done to protect the environment (yes, it was Nixon who instituted the Environmental Protection Agency and served as president during the passage of the Clean Air Act), there are general [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Building, Op-Ed, Sustainability Tags: Cloth Diapers, EPA, Government No Comments » October 15th, 2012 Eric Wilson The equation is simple enough, and so is the basic idea. Spinach converts sunlight into chemical energy, as all producers (think green plants, algae, etc) do via photosynthesis. Humans want to convert sunlight into a usable form of energy too. Currently, solar panels are arguably the most popular way this is accomplished. Making solar panels [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, News, Renewable Energy Tags: EPA, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy, Video No Comments » September 27th, 2012 Chris DeArmond If you talk to European car enthusiasts, they simply won’t understand why diesels aren’t more popular in the United States. Diesel-powered vehicles return significantly better gas mileage than gasoline—usually between 25 and 30 percent—and are not anywhere near as loud or dirty as many people would have you believe. But, it wasn’t always so. Until [...]
Posted in Behavior, Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Transportation Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Cars, Chris DeArmond, Diesel, Environment, EPA, Fuel Economy No Comments » August 30th, 2012 Chris DeArmond With heightened attention surrounding the Midwest drought and the resulting spike in corn prices, members of both parties are beginning to question policies that mandate increasing amounts of ethanol in gasoline—namely, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Created as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, RFS requires a minimum amount of ethanol to be [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Policy, Renewable Energy Tags: Chris DeArmond, EPA, Ethanol, Food No Comments » July 4th, 2012 Eric Wilson In some architecture circles there is a debate as to whether existing buildings are in fact the “greenest buildings.” The argument goes something like this: the resources required to build a new building outstrip the energy use of older buildings. Mind you, this is an overly simplistic rendering of the issue. As noted in an [...]
Posted in Education, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Green Building, Sustainable Development Tags: Built Green, Energy Conservation, EPA No Comments »
