Image: Shimizu One of These Days, Alice. Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon! Big problems need big solutions, and the Shimizu corporation in Japan certainly can’t be blamed for thinking small. It has made plans to provide enough clean energy to all of humanity by turning the moon into a kind of anti-Death Star, a giant solar power station that brings life instead of death. It might sound like complete science-fiction now, but who knows what will be possible in a 100 years ( if we ma… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Luna Ring: A Giant Solar Power Plant on the Moon

Image credit: Leilani Münter/YouTube This post originally appeared on Huffington Post . After spending a week in Venice, Louisiana getting an up close view of the BP gulf coast oil spill disaster, talking with locals whose livelihoods are over, and seeing dead wildlife, I am trying my best to look at the positive side. Keep in mind that I just got off the phone with one of my boat captains in Louisiana and he told me he saw six dead dolphins and ten dead turtles in the past few days. So the idea of looking on “the brigh… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Who Will Answer Our Clean Energy Wake Up Call?

photo: Martin Pettitt via flickr Developing offshore wind farms on the Great Lakes has been touted as an overlooked resource in a number of studies and indeed a few projects are in the planning stages. Which, seemingly on cue, has aroused opposition to them on the usual grounds, as the Detroit News reports:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Great Lakes Offshore Wind Farms Already Face NIMBY Opposition, Just Like Those in Saltwater

Family and friends pose in front of a house in South Africa with a new solar heating system. Photo by Abri_Beluga via Flickr No matter how much it might help the environment for fewer nations to produce and consume at U.S.-style levels, slowing global development would clearly be an unworkable — and profoundly unfair — way to address the climate crisis. As environmental scientist Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker put it this morning at a conference in Berlin: “Poor and cle… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Getting Developing Nations on a Greener Path Without Creating a New Renewable Energy ‘Colonialism’

Concrete often cracks due to shrinkage, impact or loading, and then the moisture gets in, corrodes the reinforcing or spalls in freeze-thaw cycles. Michelle Pelletier, a University of Rhode Island master’s degree candidate, has figured out a way to make it “self-healing”, and says this will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Self-Healing Concrete Could Mean Longer Life, Less CO2 Emissions

Bicycle Chic Makes Cycling More Accessible It all started with Copenhagen Cycle Chic , and now the meme is spreading around the world (see London Cycle Chic ,

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Do You Know What ‘Cycle Chic’ Is? Are You Part of the Movement? (Video)

Air-drying clothing is definitely the cheapest, and especially the most eco-friendly way of drying your clothes; no energy or machinery is needed. However, if you live in a small space, a rainy country or simply are a busy (or forgetful) person, line-drying can be a little impractical, or even, banned by the authorities depending on where you live (see video Drying for Freedom )! Levi’s wants us to come up with a solution and will launch the

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Care to Air Design Challenge by Levi’s

Image credit: Green Power Science It’s been a long time since we checked in on Dan and Denise Rojas of Green Power Science—the folks who previously brought us videos on how to make a homemade solar collector from a satellite dish ; a DIY solar space heater made from campaign signs , not to mention some thoughts on

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Solar-Powered Fish Fry: Extreme Cooking (Video)

Photos: NineMSN , GoGet , ChargePoint . It was 2005 when we last reported on Australia’s pioneering car share business GoGet . The guys have been going places since then, figuring that their service now keeps the equivalent of more than 230 cars off the road, through their more than 26 car share pods in four states (though we suspect the… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Australia’s First Public Electric Car Charge Station is Go

Photo via chefrandan When it comes to greening up data centers, most IT companies focus on reducing power consumption through better server cooling methods and smarter building structures. A smaller handful, such as Google, have been looking into renewable energy as a greener power source. But one company is looking where most of us turn up our noses – cow manure. Yesterday HP released a paper showing how dairy farm waste can be used to power up data centers. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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HP Turns Dairy Farm Poop into Data Center Power