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Imagine driving to and from work everyday, not carpooling, and not feeling guilty about it. Now picture yourself driving half a mile to the market without being criticized for contributing to ozone depletion (“you should've walked!”) or for caring more about your car than the planet. If you love your ride – and loathe your bike and public transportation – this fantasy is about to come true. And electric cars are your ticket to paradise.
This past year, we’ve suffered economic catastrophe, witnessed the birth of the iPhone, capitalized on phrases like global warming, mass extinction, and terrorism, cheered an American super-swimmer to eight gold medals in Beijing, and caught glimpses of vanishing oil and automobile industries. Hollywood lost actors Heath Ledger and Paul Newman, and the United States welcomed its first African-American president to the White House. We couldn’t have squeezed much more into 2008. But somehow we did. While Warren Buffet was busy bailing Goldman Sachs out of financial turmoil and Apple was crafting the hottest gizmos since color TV, a few ordinary environmentalists were doing some inventing of their own. Here’s a list of some of the most zany green gadgets from 2008.
Photo credit: Ecoble.com.
San Francisco is the second greenest city in the nation, after its neighborly competitor Portland, Oregon, according to a February 2008 study. I say, great job, San Francisco! But second place just isn't good enough for our strong-willed Foggy City. In August, it may have tightened the gap between number one and number two when Mayor Gavin Newsom signed a code requiring renovated and newly constructed commercial and residential buildings to follow strict green-building certifications.
