There’s an interesting auction taking place in Vermont to help conservation efforts, according to this Burlington Free-Press article:
The Landscape Auction for Vermont’s Working Landscape will be the first such event to be held in the United States. The new conservation fundraising tool has been used in Europe to raise hundreds of thousands [...]

BBC has a terrific story (read it here) about gardeners at a National Trust property in Britain (roughly equivalent to a National Historic Site here) getting their male employees to urinate on hay bales, which are used to speed up the composting process. The story has lots of great tidbits, including:

They don’t ask female employees, [...]

Kudos to research professor Fred Short, who, along with several collaborators, was honored earlier this month with the prestigious Coastal America Partnership Award, the only environmental award of its kind given by the U.S. president.

  As someone concerned with energy efficiency, I decided to try out some LED lamps on sale at Sam’s Club in Leesburg, Florida. The price was three for 14.97 for the 30 LED 1.5 watt version and two for 14.97 for the 60 LED 3.5 watt version. As I’m now at home and have the necessary measuring [...]

Todays’ submission in the “depressing aspect of human behavior” category is the fact that the only good thing to come out of the financial turmoil of the past year is disappearing: The decline of gas prices has people ending their just-barely-started habits of automotive frugality, says the Globe and the NY Times.
Below two bucks a [...]