admin | June 13, 2010
Image: The Chronicle of Higher Education While everyone else worries about the toxicity of the oil, the physics of plume dispersion, and the costs to wildlife and workers across the gulf, one crew of scientists see a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The obvious ethical restrictions to releasing large amounts of methane (which contributes 25 times more greenhouse [...]
admin | June 13, 2010
The Millennium Technology Prize trophy, named “Peak,” features a silicon tip. Back in 1991, Professor Michael Graetzel from the Lausanne Polytechnic invented what’s now called the Graetzel Cell, a non-photovoltaic solar cell made of a layer of titanium dioxide, glass and a dye from fruit that absorbs sunlight like the chlorophyll in green leaves. The [...]
admin | June 13, 2010
U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic technicians collect a stream sample from Hallocks Mill Brook downstream of the outfall of one of the wastewater treatment plants investigated. Photo courtesy of USGS. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com. A five-year study conducted by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) researchers has found that pharmaceutical manufact… [...]
admin | June 13, 2010
Photo: Ford Is This a Good Idea? Replacing one fossil fuel might seem like a bad idea, and under certain circumstances I would definitely agree that it is, but sometimes you have to take what you can get while waiting for something better to come along. Many companies, like Verizon who just announced the conversion [...]
admin | June 13, 2010
As BP’s Gulf oil spill continues to suck, the internet has been bombarded with heartbreaking photos of oil-dipped wildlife and new interpretations of the BP logo. It’s also helped showcase some of the more interesting ways an oil spill can be cleaned up. For example, this pac-man-esque oil recovery vessel. digg_url = ‘http:… Read the [...]
admin | June 13, 2010
Photo: The Big Caption BP Gulf Oil Spill Art Many of you probably already know The Big Picture, a photo-journalism section on Boston.com. They put together great galleries for most big events, including the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (you can see one of those
admin | June 13, 2010
Images via Groasis Pieter Hoff, a lily-grower-turned-inventor, took a good look at how seeds grow in dry areas — specifically looking at the way seeds distributed by birds can take root based on the protection and fertilization of the excrement with which it is mixed. Taking a cue from biomimicry, he created the Waterboxx, a [...]
admin | June 13, 2010
Image via Smarter Planet It might seem obvious that we need to be more intelligent with our water use. So obvious that the smart water technologies market is projected to be a $16.3 billion industry by 2020. But what does smartening up our water systems entail? This great little video explains just how we’re being [...]
admin | June 13, 2010
Last spring was the hottest ever recorded, according to data from NASA. While May only tied for the hottest May ever, with that of 1998, last April was far and away the hottest on the temperature record. Additionally, the entire period of January to May this year was also the hottest in the temperature record. [...]
admin | June 13, 2010
Image credit: Mitch Epstein, American Power Across the country, billboards are springing up. They feature an image that is arresting—smoke spewing from a coal plant, a massive power plant behind a school, or the hulking industrial frame of an oil refinery—and a simple question written in plain letters. “What is American Power?” Taken from photographer [...]
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