9 Steps for a Greener Food System in the Developing World
Sunday, 29 January 2012 00:00   

9 Steps for a Greener Food System in the Developing World

 

Many of us are thinking about the changes we want to make this year. For some, these changes will be financial; for others, physical or spiritual. But for all of us, there are important resolutions we can make to “green” our lives. Although this is often a subject focused on by industrialized nations, people in developing countries can also take important steps to reduce their growing environmental impact.

 
Window Tint: Slashing Business Costs While Going Green
Sunday, 22 January 2012 00:00   

Window Tint: Slashing Business Costs While Going Green

 

It’s no secret; running a lean, efficient enterprise is the universal aspiration of success-driven business owners.

 
Reducing Energy Bills with Geothermal Heat
Sunday, 22 January 2012 00:00   

Reducing Energy Bills with Geothermal Heat

 

The untapped and clean geothermal energy our planet provides is enormous. but in 2008, geothermal power supplied less than one percent of the world’s energy. However, that may soon change. By 2050 geothermal power might be able to meet between 10 and 20 percent of the world’s energy requirements, according to a report from Renewable Energy World.

 
Corporations Can Legally Dump Toxic Waste in Fertilizers
Sunday, 22 January 2012 00:00   

Corporations Can Legally Dump Toxic Waste in Fertilizers

 

Why would anyone choose organic gardening?Besides being a lot healthier, it is a whole lot cheaper than the alternative. Unfortunately there are a handful of very powerful multi national corporations that don’t want you to know that and they have politicians on both sides in their pocket. Now why is that so important to them?

 
How the Humble Sunflower Holds the Key to More-Efficient Solar Power
Sunday, 15 January 2012 00:00   

How the Humble Sunflower Holds the Key to More-Efficient Solar Power

 

Regular readers are well aware of concentrating solar power (CSP), the growing technology which uses the sun’s energy to heat fluid (not unlike a steam engine) rather than using photovoltaic cells to convert it directly to electricity. If you’re not up to speed, we recently published a quick primer on CSP and why it could be vital to tomorrow’s energy mix.

 
OriginOil and DOE to Develop Direct Conversion of Algae into Renewable Crude Oil
Sunday, 15 January 2012 00:00   

OriginOil and DOE to Develop Direct Conversion of Algae into Renewable Crude Oil

Good news on the algae-to-oil front has been released by Los Angeles-based OriginOil, Inc., in conjunction with the US Department of Energy. The company will work in partnership with Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to help algae growers to enter the global crude oil market.

 
Lufthansa Declares Biofuel Trials Successful, Ceases Using Biofuel
Sunday, 15 January 2012 00:00   

Lufthansa Declares Biofuel Trials Successful, Ceases Using Biofuel

The German airline Lufthansa has ceased its domestic trials of biofuel – but not because the trial failed. On the contrary, 1,471 tons of CO2 have been saved on over a thousand domestic flights between Frankfurt and Hamburg. Lufthansa is capping off its trial run with a transatlantic biofuel powered flight.

 
Vegetables and Legumes – Your Pet’s Superhero
Monday, 09 January 2012 00:00   

Vegetables and Legumes – Your Pet’s Superhero

 

Vegetarians and Vegans generally appreciate the wellness benefits that are derived from a greener and holistic life style. Vegans, in particular, aspire to a moral and ethical life style.

 
In a Manufacturing First, Innovative Material is Grown by Fungi
Sunday, 08 January 2012 00:00   

In a Manufacturing First, Innovative Material is Grown by Fungi

 

Normally manufacturers must rush their products off the assembly line, but EcovativeDesign has a novel approach. They just wait, up to week, and let mycelium do the manufacturing work to construct everything from insulation to packaging materials.

 
Hawaii Inches Toward 100% Renewable Energy; Geothermal Resources 2.5 to 7 Times Demand
Sunday, 08 January 2012 00:00   

Hawaii Inches Toward 100% Renewable Energy; Geothermal Resources 2.5 to 7 Times Demand

Located as it is about 2,400 miles (3,900 km) WSW of San Francisco about in the middle of the northern Pacific, residents and businesses on the ‘Big Island’ of Hawai’i pay a lot for energy. Imported oil has been the primary fuel, not only for transportation, but for generating electricity in the Hawaiian Islands.

 
Study: Biofuels 14x to 31x More Costly than Raising the Gas Tax
Sunday, 08 January 2012 00:00   

Study: Biofuels 14x to 31x More Costly than Raising the Gas Tax

Could the cost-efficacy and net benefit of biofuels be worse than we thought?

 
Tough Road Ahead for Nuclear Power
Monday, 02 January 2012 00:00   

Tough Road Ahead for Nuclear Power

Several experts have recently made it clear that they think nuclear power isn’t going to be growing any time soon, and will continue to experience popular criticism and fear, especially in light of the recent damage taken by the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan.

 


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