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Mining Methane From A Rwandan Lake Offers to More Than Double Nation’s Electric Capacity
Mining Methane From A Rwandan Lake Offers to More Than Double Nation’s Electric Capacity
photo: Wikipedia This is one you definitely don’t hear about too often: Over at Green Biz Marc Gunther is highlighting the efforts of Contour Global to extract methane from Lake Kivu, on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here’s how they are doing it:… Read...
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Dying for a Cookie: Seemingly Harmless Foods That Aren’t
Dying for a Cookie: Seemingly Harmless Foods That Aren’t
Michael Pollan’s first food rule is simple: Eat Food , which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or “highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from corn and soy that no normal person...
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Dubai Skyscraper Is One Giant Wind and Solar Generator
Dubai Skyscraper Is One Giant Wind and Solar Generator
Images: Studied Impact It’s hard to fathom much of the news from Dubai, especially when it comes to architecture. Then again, this city of excess has delivered some astonishing structures, including, of course, the world’s tallest building . So it with a mixture of cynicism and excitement...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 10th, 2010 | No Comments
Canada’s Largest Supermarket Chain to Install Solar Panels on 100+ Stores in Ontario
Canada’s Largest Supermarket Chain to Install Solar Panels on 100+ Stores in Ontario
Photo: Google Maps Loblaw Couldn’t Resist Ontario’s Generous Feed-in Tariff? Loblaw is announcing today that it will put solar panels on the roof of 4 supermarkets in a pilot program, with the ultimate goal of installing solar arrays on more than 100 stores in Ontario. This is not surprising...
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Posted by in Business, Environment on 03 9th, 2010 | No Comments
Finding the Key to Subsidizing Solar Power
Finding the Key to Subsidizing Solar Power
Photo via International Rivers The International Herald Tribune has an interesting (if embarrassingly headlined–in the print edition, they went all-out for an Icarus reference) look at the boom and bust of the Spanish solar industry today . Basically, in a rush to jumpstart a pioneering solar...
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Pre-Dinosaur Era Plant Specimens Brazenly Stolen
Pre-Dinosaur Era Plant Specimens Brazenly Stolen
This photo, via The Telegraph , shows just how difficult it is to move one of the large, primitive cycads. Important specimens from one of the world´s oldest and rarest species of plant were stolen last weekend, covert ops style, from a botanical garden in South Africa. The species, cycads, is so old,...
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Colorado Legislature Approves 30% by 2020 Renewable Energy Standard - Only California’s is Higher
Colorado Legislature Approves 30% by 2020 Renewable Energy Standard - Only California’s is Higher
Distributed generation for utilities is part of the mandate. Photo: Solar Dave via flickr . Now this is getting somewhere… Climate Progress reports that the Colorado House of Representatives has passed an increase in the state’s Excerpt from:  Colorado Legislature Approves 30% by 2020...
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Hessnatur & Planet Green Winning Eco T-Shirt Available Now (Video)
Hessnatur & Planet Green Winning Eco T-Shirt Available Now (Video)
Credit: hessnatur We announced the Planet Green and hessnatur Eco-Tee Design Challenge winner, Lindsay Seligman for her One Life design, back in September 2009 and we are happy to report that the organic cotton t-shirt is available now. Click through to watch a video with the designer and to find out...
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Dell Launches Optiplex, Most Efficient Desktop Computer To Date
Dell Launches Optiplex, Most Efficient Desktop Computer To Date
Photos via Dell Dell has been one of the leaders of the computer pack in developing more and more efficient computers. The Dell Studio Hybrid shows off how compact but powerful a computer can be, and while the company t ook a hit from Greenpeace in last summer’s green gadget guide for failing...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 8th, 2010 | No Comments
8 Electric Concept Cars Shaking Up the Auto Industry Right Now
8 Electric Concept Cars Shaking Up the Auto Industry Right Now
Image via Porsche Most of the excitement at Geneva this year didn’t come from the announcement of new production model cars. No, the task of riling up the auto press was left to the hyper-fuel efficient vehicle concepts trotted out by carmakers that represent the best prospects for the cars of...
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