While the Austin City Council is not giving home sellers a break this year, the federal government is coming through with some tax breaks for the energy-conscious homeowner. For 2009 only, homeowners

The Independent has had a tumultuous past few weeks. Exposed in late April 2009 as a newspaper with plunging circulation and with its parent company, The Independent News and Media in dire danger of d

The ability to create and sell environmentally friendly bottled water has finally arrived and has been long overdue. Bottled water companies have for an extensive period of time enjoyed huge profits because of convenience, availability, and the allure that the water contained in the bottle promotes better health and has been shipped directly to you from a crystal clean glacier or filtered fresh from an underground spring. But in many cases the labels attached to the bottles are misleading, deceptive, and are not indicative of where the water actually came from. Not even close!

The term "cap-and-trade" is heard a lot these days when discussing global warming and environmental policy. What exactly is cap-and-trade? Well, it's the government giving companies an allowance (th

Smoking is unhealthy, unattractive and unpleasant. Finding a way to stop smoking is not always easy. There are some quick natural ways to try. Smoking is not a lot of fun. You spend all your money on a product that is slowly destroying your health.

If you smoke but would like to quit now is a good time to do so. There are a lot of smoking cessation programs to help you quit. There is also a large variety of products such as Nicorette that will increase your chance of successfully quitting smoking.

If Abraham Lincoln's house can go green, anyone's can. President Lincoln's Cottage, his family's summer retreat during the Civil War, has been completely renovated during preparation for the compound

Kilimanjaro lies on a tectonic line intersection 80km. east of the tectonically active Rift Valley. The formations on Kilimanjaro are not limited to volcanic rock alone, but also include incredibly impressive glacial configurations. Thousands of years ago, whole sheets of ice covered the mountain all the way down to almost 3000 feet.

Mountain Kilimanjaro's rapidly retreating glacier is probably disappearing as a result of deforestation of the surrounding slopes rather than global warming or climate change. This is apparent because the loss of ice is via sublimation rather than melting.

I love England, I really do. As we are only a small island we have absorbed the world and look outwards unlike some countries that become trapped in their own vastness and let the rest of the world me