Built for the Earth and the Pocketbook
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A Manhattan architect is attempting to marry modernist design and reasonable cost in a Long Island modular home.
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Review Fast, inexpensive and highly pocketable
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Environmentalist and author Mark Lynas paints a gloomy picture of Earth's future in Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet. But in an interview with Wired News he says it's not time to despair just yet.
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It's a tough world, all right. Too bad it's not tougher. Right now Earth is looking pretty fragile as it suffers from increasing human punishment.
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Do the right thing -- for humanity and your heirs' wallets.
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Investors are now searching for a holy grail that symbolizes wealth in both profits and whatâs good for the environment.
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BusinessWeek Online - Seventy-five years is a mere blink of history's eye. Yet since 1929, when BusinessWeek was first published, the world has been transformed by profound innovation and technological wizardry. Three-quarters of a century ago, there were no safe and effective antibiotics, no jet travel, no commercial television, and no computers. Many died of routine infections. A five-day ocean voyage was the main way to get from America to Europe, and "wireless" meant the wood-paneled Radiola in the parlor. Since then our mastery of the physical and biological world has strengthened remarkably. ...
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CHICAGO (Reuters Life!) - With enough Bibles in print by one estimate to put a copy in the hand of every person on earth, it's no surprise there's a demand for guides to the ancient texts that are the foundation of Christianity.
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Lessons from two world-traveling retirees.
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Science and skill unite in the growth-investing universe.
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Life & style: We burn fossil fuel in the developed world - and plant trees in Africa. It sounds like a win-win situation. But is it? Mark Honigsbaum reports.
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A nifty moon colony sounds so very exotic. But the dreamy mission comes at a terrible price: slashing funding for Earth science. In Beyond the Beyond.
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As I write this column, I'm flying from San  Francisco to New York City for three days of meetings at the American Museum of  Natural History on bringing the latest scientific data to the public via museums  and planetariums. I look forward to working with my colleagues. I'm also eager  to gaze again at their stunning collection of fossils and to travel to distant  locations in our universe at the Rose Center and the Hayden Planetarium, the  museum's digital planetarium. ...
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If everyone on Earth generated the 20 tons of carbon dioxide emitted by each United States citizen yearly, the global tally now would be 134 billion tons a year, instead of 29 billion. That's a lot of billions.
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In response to growing concerns over the planet's future, scientists are proposing some radical ideas to combat global warming.
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Yes, it's dirt-cheap and will mobilize people throughout the developing world. And that is exactly why it poses a threat to the environment and global energy supplies.
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How do we create energy and sustain our environment? A panel of scientists lays it out simply. Conserve, invest, clean up the developing world. Repeat.