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Enterprise Holdings will move its fleet of buses to biodiesel
From Green Right Now Reports Enterprise Holdings today announced that it will convert its entire fleet of more than 600 Alamo Rent A Car, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental airport shuttle...
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Earth Day events around the U.S.
From Green Right Now Reports Thousands of events will commemorate this 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. In the U.S., many gatherings will focus on making environmental progress by cleaning up a wildlife...
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Survey shows U.S. office buildings are inefficient, wasteful
From Green Right Now Reports U.S. office buildings have failed to keep pace with the revolution in automation that pervades modern life, according to a new survey of American office workers by IBM. The...
View ArticleFord to provide 5,000 free charging stations to electric vehicle buyers
From Green Right Now Reports Ford Motor Company announced it will partner with Coulomb Technologies to provide free in-home charging stations for some of the automaker’s first electric vehicle...
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EV Project expanding to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
An ECOtality design for a charging station. From Green Right Now Reports ECOtality, Inc. said today that the U.S. Department of Energy has expanded The EV Project to include two new cities, Los Angeles...
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Southern California’s Planet Fest/Vegan Earth Day this weekend
From Green Right Now Reports Get ready to sample vegan cuisine and rally around the idea of going vegan to save the planet at the second annual Southern California Planet Fest in Orange County this...
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Hands Across the Sands: The story in photos
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now In a symbolic but moving gesture, the Hands Across the Sands oil drilling protest on Saturday brought out people from Miami to Melbourne to stand in solidarity for...
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LEDs are lighting the road ahead in San Francisco, and other cities
By Billi London-Gray Green Right Now San Francisco, the city that banned plastic bags, bottled water and Styrofoam, is taking another big step down the path to sustainable urban living. In March 2011,...
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New software speeds detection of contaminants in drinking water
The software can help detect a wide variety of chemical and biological contaminants in drinking water. (Photo: Green Right Now) From Green Right Now Reports Scientists from the U.S. Environmental...
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California considering a statewide plastic bag ban
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now California stands ready to be the first state to ban disposable plastic bags, a move that supporters say would help staunch plastic waste on land and in the ocean....
View ArticleMake 10/10/10 a global workday: Be part of a community climate-change event
From Green Right Now Reports Looking for something to do on Oct. 10, also known as 10/10/10? Take the fight against climate change into your hands with a “global work party” on that once-in-a-lifetime...
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EPA fines facilities across LA, San Fernando Valley for hazardous waste...
From Green Right Now Reports The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is pursuing enforcement against California metal finishing companies for violations of federal hazardous waste laws discovered...
View ArticleWaste Management launches new food and organic recycling technology in Orange...
From Green Right Now Reports Waste Management of Orange County today opened a new Food and Organic Recycling Facility, featuring processing technology that the company said is the first of its kind in...
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2010: The heat is still on
From Green Right Now Reports Is is warm out there, or is it just us? The Sun (NASA.org.) 2010 brought above-average warmth, month after month. Even October, while ushering in a cool breeze across the...
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350.org captures Earth’s woes and hopes from space
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Climate action group 350.org wants us to see, really see, what’s happening as the result of climate change here on Earth. So it’s taken to space to get a better...
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Ford’s Electric Focus lands at LA auto museum
Ford Focus, due out late 2011 From Green Right Now Reports Ford has donated one of its two prototype Electric Ford Focuses to the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. But unlike past electric car...
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Sunny LA plans to tap solar power from apartment rooftops
From Green Right Now Reports OK, this is a hard one: What can cities in the Sunbelt do to find more energy sources? Hint. Cities in the Sunbelt. Hmmmmm. That’s right, install solar panels! Solar roof...
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First CODA drives off the line, giving consumers another EV option
From Green Right Now Reports CODA, the innocuous looking sedan that boldly promises the best range of any electric car on the market, officially entered its production phase this week. The first fully...
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Urban Roots, a film about food and Detroit + a project for schools
By Brett Kessler Green Right Now In a bygone American era, Detroit shone proudly as a center of industry, home to the Model T and other symbols of American progress. The decline of the car industry in...
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Los Angeles becomes largest city in the US to enact plastic bag ban
From Green Right Now Reports Los Angeles became the largest city in the US to pass a plastic bag ban, when the City Council voted 13 to 1 today to disallow the use of plastic bags in supermarkets. Heal...
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