Posted by admin on 08 27th, 2010 |
No Comments Photo via Plinkk This year’s coffee prices area already at a 12-year high due to low crop yields in South America, but it looks like prices could tighten again in the future if a particular beetle continues to bask in warming weather. Arabica coffee, a climate-sensitive plant, is grown in Ethiopia and Latin America. However, Ethiopia and other regions have seen a slow but steady rise in average...
Posted by admin on 08 27th, 2010 |
No Comments The East Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pa. has something to be proud about, and this time it’s not the historical appeal of the Liberty Bell. Postgreen , a real estate development company focusing on modern and eco-friendly development in Philadelphia’s urban neighborhoods, recently completed an undertaking called the “ 100K Project ,” two houses that prove that green construction...
Posted by admin on 08 27th, 2010 |
No Comments August has been a big month in the realm of electronic waste and recycling, as the subject was both the focus of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study and a named an international priority by the EPA. The GAO study was prepared for the House of Representative Committee on Science and Technology and released to the public August 11. Titled “ Electronic Waste: Considerations for Promoting...
Posted by admin on 08 26th, 2010 |
No CommentsThe world’s farms may get a little greener with the introduction of hydrogen-fueled tractors that emit only heat, vapor, and water. Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
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Zero emission fuel-cell tractor coming to U.S.
Posted by admin on 08 26th, 2010 |
No CommentsChemists say breakthrough could one day lead to device for collecting electricity from the atmosphere for energy use, prevention of lightning.
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Scientists work to harness lightning for electricity
Posted by admin on 08 26th, 2010 |
No Comments Debate has been raging over government claims that only a quarter of the oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico by BP remains, but some scientists say naturally occurring bacteria have been eating away at the oil at such a rapid pace that much of it is already gone. The Times-Picayune reports that a microbial ecologist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has had a team of researchers out in...
Posted by admin on 08 26th, 2010 |
No Comments Image credit: Hemera/Thinkstock Every year, sockeye salmon return to the rivers of western Canada to make their arduous upstream journey to calmer spawning grounds. It is a seasonal touchstone that signifies the approaching end of summer, one that has been observed for centuries. The only problem is that some years, like in 2009, the salmon don’t return…. Read the full story on TreeHugger...
Posted by admin on 08 26th, 2010 |
No CommentsBeacon Solar Energy is the first of perhaps many such plants to be approved before federal incentives expire at end of 2010.
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California approves giant thermal solar plant
Posted by admin on 08 26th, 2010 |
No CommentsThe hybrid supermini, to debut at the Paris Motor Show, will borrow most of its propulsion technology from its Honda Insight big brother. Originally posted at Crave
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Honda trumpets its Jazz hybrid
Posted by admin on 08 26th, 2010 |
No Comments Photo: Honda Patience is a Virtue Mentions of a hybrid version of the Honda Fit (known as the Jazz in most of the world) can be found as far back as 2006 . Back then everybody thought that it was going to come out soon, but things turned out differently… But finally, for real this time, Honda is going to be debuting the Fit hybrid at the Paris Motor Show in September. Read on for more details…....
