United Kingdom coal fired plants came under fire today when a group of protesters scaled a 200 meter tall chimney.  The Camp for Climate Action group managed to gain access to the power plant early Monday morning.  About 20 protesters targeted a couple of different areas in the plant.  One group made attempts at stopping a conveyor belt from feeding more coal into the power producing inferno while another group began climbing the giant chimney which is over 200 meters tall.
Read the whole story at:  http://in.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idINTRE59P26X20091026?sp=true

Shovel Your Snow – Avoid the Snow Blower
Its winter time, and with that comes a drop in temperatures and the inevitable……snow storms. Most people find this to be quite the bother. Traffic slows down, pipes freeze under the arctic chill and snow removal becomes a reality.
You have the choice of marching head on into the battle with snow shovel in hand, or snow blower in front. We all know what’s easy and what might be a little difficult and tiring. Snowblowers are about as environmentally …

The Ontario Ministry of Environment has launched a new website to help people green up their lives a little. Tips can be found for those who own a home, rent an apartment, or live in a townhouse. This is nice, considering most green tips really involve home owners, leaving those who rent or lease in the dark as to what they can do to reduce their carbon footprint. Those who lease or rent hardly have any way of changing the bigger inefficiencies in their livingspace such as …

Environmentally Friendly Reel Mowers Lawnmowers
Rather than using a gas guzzling lawnmower, use a push mower
to cut the grass. Scientists and researchers say that a typical gas powered lawn mower produces the same amount of emissions as 43 cars. Thats HUGE! In north America, some 60 million lawn mowers run in succession every Saturday as homeowners tend to their lawns. Beyond that, EPA estimates that some 17 million gallons of gas end up seeping into the ground each year from spills resulting from filling lawn mower fuel …