admin | March 12, 2010
Source: iStock Photo via American Chemical Society. Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com‘s Naturally Green section. Alternative energy efforts received a bit of a boon this week from a study published in the American Chemical Society‘s journal Energy & Fuels, which revealed conventional crude oil production might peak in [...]
admin | March 12, 2010
NoMix Toilet. Photo: Flickr Technological Innovations in the Bathroom? You Bet! Being green is all about solving problems and grabbing overlooked opportunities. It turns out that there’s such a double-win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had “NoMix” toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier [...]
admin | March 12, 2010
Photo via FreeSpeech Ban Ki-moon has announced that a comprehensive, independent review of the IPCC is to be carried out, after calls from world governments were made to do so. The Secretary General for the UN said that scientists from academies around the world will take part in the review, which will be headed by [...]
admin | March 12, 2010
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 the full story on TreeHugger Tweet
admin | March 12, 2010
photo: chantrybee via flickr. Even if the sun entered a Grand Solar Minimum–like the one experienced in the late 17th century known as the Maunder Minimum, which brought about the Little Ice Age–it would still only offset less than a tenth of the warming caused by human release of greenhouse gases. That’s the word from [...]
admin | March 12, 2010
Images via SolidWorks How can designers make products that they can be sure have a minimized environmental footprint? The software they use during the design phase can make all the difference. A new tool, called SolidWorks Sustainability software shows designers the air, water, carbon, energy and disposal impact of every decision they make on every [...]
admin | March 12, 2010
Photo via casers jean We’re fast to post about packaging failures, which are all too common. But happily, we sometimes get to post about packaging brilliance. Cisco is giving us just such an opportunity. The company has taken up a pilot program for a packaging diet, and will see a savings of about $24 million [...]
admin | March 12, 2010
Image via Engadget Two new foldable solar chargers from AmbienTech have hit the market. But…They look a little odd, right? That’s because they’re the first mobile chargers to use spherical solar cells. Each cell has around 1,900 spheres collecting solar energy. They’re strong, bendable, and just look cool. … Read the full story on TreeHugger [...]
admin | March 12, 2010
Methane hydrate crystals show promise as a clean energy source When methane and freezing cold water fuse under tremendous pressure, they create a substance as paradoxical as it coveted: burning ice. Earlier in the year, a report from the National Research Council identified the combustible water, also known as methane hydrate, as a potential source [...]
admin | March 12, 2010
As sequencing becomes more affordable, the way forward for diagnosis is not DNA snippets, but full genome workups Despite coming from a range of different backgrounds, everyone whose genome has been fully sequenced has had one thing in common: they were all healthy. But now, two teams have decoded the first genomes of people who [...]
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