Sustainable Wind Turbine Towers Being Made of Eco-Friendly Wood
Super-strong laminated veneer lumber is a Swedish company's answer to the carbon emissions from steel used to make wind turbines.
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Researchers Create 'First-of-its-Kind' Roadmap for Saving Earth From Climate Change Years Before 2050 Deadline
This groundbreaking report is one of the first global roadmaps for how the world can stop climate change - and it's apparently quite cost-effective, too.
Now is the Moment of Power
We heal each other all the time, and don't even realize that we're doing it. Healing comes out of a very simple realization: knowing your life matters to another person, and connecting to something larger and unseen.
GE to Choose Site for Biggest U.S. Solar Plant, Investing $600 Million
General Electric plans to select a location in about three months for a U.S. solar-panel plant that may be the country's largest, with an investment that will exceed $600 million and power 80,000 homes.
How Boulder Took Over Its Electric Company
The city of Boulder, Colorado has won the right to take its power supply—and carbon emissions—away from corporate control and redirect it toward the sun. The change for Boulder came in November when voters passed two ballot measures that allow the city to begin the process of forming its own municipal power utility to take advantage of the 300 days of annual sunshine.
Virgin Galactic Spaceships Look to Be Powered by Algae
Virgin Galactic Spaceships Look to Be Powered by Algae
OSU Invents "World's First Solar Battery" to Run on Light and Air
Is it a solar cell? Or a rechargeable battery? Actually, the patent-pending device is both. The inventors at Ohio State University call it the world's first solar battery.
Students and Post-it Notes Help Schools Cut Their Energy Bills
Simple yellow Post-it notes with the message "When not in use, turn off the juice," pointedly left on classroom computers, printers and air-conditioners, have helped New York public schools save $350,000 annually on utility bills. Other ideas have also achieved greater and greater energy savings.
Oslo Turns Food Waste into Fuel for Buses
A plant in Oslo, Norway began converting household food waste into liquid biogas last week, enough fuel to run a clean fleet of 135 city buses. As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will be reduced by some 10,000 tons each year, and particulate matter cut as well.
Paris Restaurants Turn Food Scraps into Biogas
A group of Paris restaurants is turning food scraps into biogas and compost ahead of a new law that will force thousands of French food outlets to recycle their organic waste.
'Solar Suitcase' Saving Moms, Babies During Childbirth
In some African countries, a lack of reliable electricity is to blame for hundreds of deaths each year during childbirth. Dr. Laura Stachel witnessed this tragic truth during a trip to Nigeria five years ago and with the help of her husband, a solar energy educator, started delivering a solution: solar energy in a suitcase.
Congressman Touts Rhode Island's Switch to Hybrid Buses, Trollies
U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin is encouraging other agencies to follow the lead of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority that recently bought 53 hybrid buses and upgraded 10 trolleys to run on a hybrid system.
Petite Woman Builds Small Hydro Plants Bringing Electricity to Half Million Indonesians
Indonesian electricity entrepreneur, Tri Mumpuni Iskandar - IBEKA photoAn Indonesian woman has developed micro-hydro projects that have already delivered electricity – and all that comes with it – to half a million Indonesians. The charismatic director wants to get power to the other 90 million Indonesians who are still without it.
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