Incentive Schemes For Cycling To Work Or College

3p Bound for Helsinki: Five Fast Facts About Finland
Quick quiz: name five things about Finland. I’ll go first: reindeer, vodka, snow, Nokia,  aaand … saunas. Pretty sad, right? For a bunch of world travelers we should know better. Luckily there is a group who is setting out to change all that. Finnfacts, the country’s PR agency, has invited Triple Pundit and friends from: Sustainablog, Clean Techies, Clean Tech Blog, Green [...]

Copenhagen: Why Bother?
With little more than a week to go before the start of the COP15 climate change conference in Copenhagen, the “Road to Copenhagen” starts to sound a little tired, even as participants prepare for actually heading to Copenhagen. With the roller-coaster-like ride of pre-COP15 news, reeling from despair to faint glimmers of hope* that something positive [...]

SolarClover: Simple and Affordable DIY Residential Rooftop Solar Energy System
If you are in the market for solar panels that are affordable and attractive, look no further!  The SolarClover system, from Armageddon Energy, is a uniquely-shaped solar panel system that assembles in mere minutes. Forget expensive installation and labor costs!  The SolarClover residential rooftop solar energy system is so simple to install, the bulk of [...]

Buy Nothing Day: The High Cost of a Bargain
This exerpt from The Price of a Bargain by Gordon Laird is presented in honor of Buy Nothing Day. Happy anti shopping! For better and for worse, ours is the age of the bargaineers – the engineers of bargains – whose factories extend from rice paddies to suburban basements everywhere. Each year we are drawn to [...]

The Monopoly Named Monsanto
Monsanto is the largest seed company in the world. It controls 95 percent of the market for Bt and Ht cotton traits. In 2008, Monsanto had shares of up to 65 percent for traited corn and soybeans and about 45 percent for traited corn. During the late 1990s and through the 2000s, Monsanto acquired almost [...]