admin | January 25, 2010
photo: United Nations Development Programme via flickr. Amidst the rubble of earthquake in Haiti and all the efforts to mobilize funding to help with the relief effort, I just wanted to pass along two examples that have come across my desk of how solar power is being used to bring both clean water and clean [...]
admin | January 25, 2010
Image via Yanko Design Designer Ji Sung Park offers up an idea for a solar powered park bench that acts like a flower. During the day, the petals are unfurled and act as seats for passers-by, while at night, the petals fold up and it becomes a path light. Neat…but as with all concept designs, [...]
admin | January 25, 2010
Photo via globalnerdy Carbon reporting is on the rise, and along with it is the rise of software to help with accounting. Grooms Energy Research predicts that over the next two years, we can expect to see a seven-fold increase in market size, and a five-fold increase in the number of companies in the market [...]
admin | January 25, 2010
photo: Wikipedia We’ve reported a number of times on efforts by the US military to lower the environmental footprint of its operations, most recently how the Navy is researching aviation biofuels in its fighter jets. One step further down that path comes via the Des Moines Register which reports … Read the full story on [...]
admin | January 25, 2010
Image credit: Imani Solar Having just finished reading The Solar Century—Jeremy Leggett’s inspiring and ambitious manifesto for a solarized world—I’m all fired up about the potential to harness the power of the sun. But while high-end solar-powered homes are becoming an increasingly common (and I would argue positive) phenomenon in our towns and cities, any [...]
admin | January 25, 2010
Photo via Wikipedia creative commons Eels were among the first species to recolonize the Thames river after it was cleaned up in the 1960s and 70s. But scientists are sounding an alarm that the populations have crashed over the last five years, and they aren’t sure what the problem is. … Read the full story [...]
admin | January 25, 2010
“Hey, scientists, listen to this belly flop!!” Photo via Flickr Creative Commons, Christian Revival Network We’ve always been infatuated with Antarctica, so we were super excited when one of our own had the opportunity to visit and bring back photos of everything from seals and penguins to infrastructure found on the frozen continent. Now there’s [...]
admin | January 25, 2010
Image Source: cthoyes Dear Pablo: I have heard that using a programmable thermostat to lower the temperature while you are out saves energy but isn’t the same amount of energy used to bring the temperature back up when you come home? The short answer is no. Because the rate of heat transfer through an insulated [...]
admin | January 25, 2010
Trench in seagrass, damaged from boat propellers. Photo courtesy of Seagrass Recovery One of the dangers to ocean coastlines is due to loss of seagrass meadows. This results in a loss of fish and marine life habitat, a decrease in food supply and eliminates some of the ocean’s carbon storage, among other problems that lead [...]
admin | January 25, 2010
Black market labs that manufacture the beauty drug Botox could also provide terrorists with the deadly botulinum toxin, officials and security experts warn. U.S. scientists found that a biologist with a master’s degree and $2,000 worth of equipment could easily make enough pure toxin to theoretically kill thousands of people, The Washington Post reports. Each [...]
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