This Is Just Cool!

If someone had told me that tumbleweeds could stop a coal train, I would have said "yeah, right, no way.”
That  was until I received this email with several pictures to prove it.   Evidently the train was going 15 mph and the wind was blowing about 50 mph when they ran into thousands of tumbleweeds.  The train came to [...]

Green Armada has been making plenty of national news, from its feature in an April "People" magazine story touting "Heroes Among Us," to national spots on the NBC Nightly News and CBS evening news programs last month.
The non-profit, volunteer-driven organization works daily to clean the waterways and shoreline around the United States.  The people in [...]

Marriott Heads for Zero Net Waste in Five Years
Marriott International, Inc. headquarters will begin lessening the load on area landfills by eliminating 2.5 million pieces, or 20 tons, of Styrofoam and plastic utensils annually. The old products will be replaced with those made of potato ("SpudWare(TM)"), sugar cane and cornstarch, all fully biodegradable within an average [...]

Whether it looks like a hoax or not, the Rare Thailand Parrot Flower truly exists.  If you would like to read a fine piece of research follow this link.  If you’d like to see the botanical drawing and read more about the search you can find it on the Exotic Rainforest,  Find the pages on [...]

The Glasswing Butterfly lives in South America.  A butterfly with transparent wings is rare, beautiful and pretty cool.
As delicate as finely blown glass, the presence of this rare tropical gem is used by rain forest ecologists as an indication of high habitat quality and its demise alerts them of ecological change.
Rivaling the refined beauty [...]

Tired of opening letters and bills? There’s a new service, Earth Class Mail, that will receive your postal mail for you, send you scans of the unopened letters and parcels, and then let you figure out what to do with your mail.  The options include physically forwarding the mail to you, recycling or shredding the [...]