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- Hydrogen Fuel Tanks Made from Chicken Feathers Could Save $5.5 Million 2:48pm Jun 26
- Newly Uncovered Enzymes Turn Corn Plant Waste into Biofuel 2:15pm Jun 23
- Study: Toxins found in scents 9:02am Jun 19
By Steven Ashley via Scientific American “Visualize three tons of moldy bread.” It’s not the most appealing image, perhaps, but it’s a description of the moist mound of growth media tended by bioscientist Cliff Bradley and his partner, chemical engineer Bob Kearns at their biofuel...
By Sandi Doughton via AJC.com The fumes that waft from top-selling air fresheners and laundry products contain dozens of chemicals, including several classified as toxic or hazardous, says a University of Washington study published recently...
By Katherine Harmon via Scientific American It is no longer enough to just conserve energy. More and more corporations, government agencies and entire cities are making large, long-term commitments to ensure that the power they do use comes from renewable sources...
via ScienceDailey Not a plant to be seen, the desert ground is too dry. But the air contains water, and research scientists have found a way of obtaining drinking water from air humidity. The system is based completely on renewable energy and is therefore autonomous...
About three years ago I helped jump start the Alternative Commuter Fund Drive (ACPD) at the school I teach at. The ACPD is a simple idea to move further in the direction as a school in leaving less of a carbon footprint behind...
by Alan Velasco via Matador Change Feature photo by Oran Viriyincy. Photo above by Claire L. Evans Ever wonder how many trees are cut down just so you can get more junk mail in your mailbox? The average person in the US receives nearly 11 pieces of junk mail each week, or 560 pieces a year...
by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California via TreeHugger ...
By Siel Ju via ENN Photo: Eric Richardson/Flickr As environmentalism hits the mainstream, gas-guzzling lawnmowers are giving way to — goats...
By Dan Shapley via The Daily Green Sales of organic products were up 17% in 2008, reaching $25.6 billion despite the recession that began in the last quarter of the year, the Organic Trade Association’s annual Industry Survey reveals...
Prosecutors are investigating claims that the Mafia has gone green in an attempt to profit from lucrative subsidies for renewable energy schemes By Tim Edwards...
The Vision To promote sustainable and just ways to rethink the world Develop and promote emerging green technology and technology companies. Catalyze the adoption/knowledge of New Green and Emerging Technology, News, Research and Community News...
By Roger Valdez via WorldChanging The Clean Energy Fund targets 500 energy efficient retrofits by 2010. We’ve been writing about some of the ways that federal stimulus funding has been misallocated to projects that would increase greenhouse gas emissions and aggravate our addiction to gasoline...
by Jaymi Heimbuch via TreeHugger In March we talked about Green My PC, a Facebook app that had some potential for saving energy by automatically setting your PC’s power options for better consumption, and then making a social networking challenge out of it...
via ScienceDaily An international team of scientists has determined the structure of the chlorophyll molecules in green bacteria that are responsible for harvesting light energy...
by Gina Solomon Senior Scientist via The Daily Green It’s amazing how confusing it can be when a new disease emerges, and advice starts flying around. One thing that I want to nip in the bud right now is the idea that “antibacterial” soaps can be helpful for fighting Swine Flu. Wrong...
TAG10 is a very simple and fun concept. It’s people like you and me doing random acts of kindness for others without them knowing and leaving behind a “TAG10″ tag to encourage others to do the same...
by david biello via Yale Environment 360 In the high desert of southern Spain, not far from Granada, the Mediterranean sun bounces off large arrays of precisely curved mirrors that cover an area as large as 70 soccer fields...
by Matthew McDermott, New York, NY via TreeHugger photo: Wikipedia Test flights earlier in 2009 by Japan Airlines and Continental Airlines showed that biofuels were more efficient than petro-fuels when used as aviation fuel, and now a new life-cycle analysis shows that jet fuel made from camelina...
by Candace Lombardi via CNET Sustainability may be all the rage but, as the song says, it’s not easy being green. Without widespread standards, companies are struggling with how to properly calculate and disclose their carbon footprint to the public...
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent via Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Diplomats from the world’s biggest greenhouse gas polluters including the United States, China and India are set to take part in a forum on Monday at the U.S. State Department aimed at getting a U.N...
By Scott Edward Anderson via the Green Skeptic The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) announced the results of a study that shows how energy use in buildings can be cut by 60 percent by 2050, but noted that it will require immediate action to transform the building sector...
By —Daniel DiClerico via ConsumerReports What it means. Studies have pointed to a phenomenon in which some folks who buy lower-calorie foods actually consume more calories than they would by eating full-calorie versions of those same items...
Via the AP and MSNBC WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Al Gore and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich were facing off Friday before lawmakers, each on opposite sides of a major climate and energy bill...
BY BRADLEY BERMAN via HYBRIDCARS.COM Every day, it seems another auto company is promising an all-electric car in the next couple of years. I’m thrilled at the opportunity to zip around my hometown of Berkeley, Calif., using electrons instead of hydrocarbons...
Today we scoured the play yard for clay based soil and added the clay to a mix of topsoil sprinkled over with a combination of seed. We left them to dry over night for a mission tomorrow to drop several “seed bombs” around the neighborhood...
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Via CBS 60 Minutes When first presented in 1989 cold fusion was quickly dismissed as junk science. But, as Scott Pelley reports, there’s renewed buzz among scientists that cold fusion could lead to monumental breakthroughs in energy production. Watch the clip below:
Human Connection Blog You’ve probably read tons of tips about living lighter on the planet, but have you ever taken the time to calculate your ecological footprint — the amount of land, water and other resources it takes to support you, and the amount of waste that you generate...
By Gery Kissel via GM BLOG Next week during the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) conference in Detroit, the SAE J1772™ Task Force will continue its work by committee to standardize the components that will soon become part of one of the most common driver interactions with a plug-in electric...
By Jim Tankersley via The LATimes Reporting from Washington — The Obama administration will declare greenhouse gases a threat to public health today, sources said, marking a major step — both practically and symbolically — toward federal limits on the carbon dioxide emissions scientists...
Written by Megan Treacy via ECOGEEK Data centers are typically very carefully controlled environments with large chillers keeping all the equipment at a regulated temperature...
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By Brian Merchant via Planet Green ...
Reposted from Alternet and by Mariah Blake, Washington Monthly This winter, as Congress was scrambling to pass the stimulus package, the bottom fell out of the renewable energy sector — the very industry that lawmakers have held out as our best hope of salvaging the economy...
By Jackie Alan Giuliano, PhD via the Examiner Green is quite a buzzword today and we should spend a few minutes thinking about what makes a business green...
by gabriel via Carrot Mob Seattle Greendrinks has partnered with the Pike Pub & Brewery to produce Seattle’s first Carrotmob event...
By KEITH BRADSHER if (acm.rc) acm.rc.write(); Speaking at a conference at the government’s prestigious Diaoyutai guesthouse here, the officials acknowledged that their efforts faced challenges in terms of the cost and safety of electric cars...
by Andrea Nocito via Matter Network The American Marketing Association (AMA) in coordination with public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard, has been studying the state of sustainability during the down economy from a communications perspective and found that things are not dire...
by James Watson via Vimeo Dartmoor is a national park about 30 miles from where James lives. He’s never really visited the moorland before so for a couple of days in September he took my camera and explored. Dartmoor - Philip Bloom Comp from James Watson on Vimeo.
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Email Picture Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times SPOKANE RIVER: The river is one of the nation’s most endangered. Spokane County plans to rescue it, in part, by limiting phosphates in dishwasher detergent in an attempt to slow the flood of pollutants into the waterway...
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