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Pumped storage hydro plants enjoy dual boost
Jul 4, 2009
James Murray, BusinessGreen , Friday 3 July 2009 at 00:15:00 Scottish and Southern announces plan for first new UK pumped storage plants in more than 30 years, as US government releases fresh hydro funding There was good news for the hydroelectric industry on both sides of the Atlantic this week, after Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) announced plans for two new pumped storage developments...
PureSense: Irrigation Technology to Live Through Drought
Jul 3, 2009
I grew up in Southern California during the beginning of the worst multi-year drought in California’s history. We sang “if it’s yellow leave it mellow, if it’s brown flush it down” at summer camp. My mother timed my showers and started screaming at the four-minute mark. We cringed at the sight of our azure swimming pool. We thought it couldn’t get any worse.... -- CLICK HERE to Continue Reading and Comment
World Centric Compostable-Ware for a Greener 4th of July
Jul 3, 2009
The 4th of July celebrations are almost upon us. The 4th of July weekend is a good time to re-think what products we use. Before you break out the disposable plates and plastic flatware, consider a few facts about our country’s solid waste . The U.S. produces 70 percent of the world’s solid waste, and 80 percent of U.S. products are used once and then thrown away. Paper is 37 percent of all the waste in the U.S., and paper waste in landfills emits methane. Landfills are the largest source of methane emissions (32 percent), which has a warming effect 23 times greater than carbon dioxide. Compostable products are better alternatives to plastic disposables. Founded in 2004, World Centric sells compostable products made from renewable sources. The company’s website pointedly states that “every action has an impact on the well-being of our planet.” Compostables, according to World Centric, “provide eco-friendly alternatives to everyday consumption choices, which can help minimize social & economic inequalities, reduce the impact of our consumption on the environment and help create a better and sustainable world.” ... -- CLICK HERE to Continue Reading and Comment
Geothermal firm to tap Perth city centre hot rocks
Jul 3, 2009
Giles Parkinson, BusinessGreen , Friday 3 July 2009 at 10:28:00 Hot water could provide cold air for offices, data centres and housing estates Australian geothermal specialist Green Rock Energy has this week announced it is to tap extensive geothermal resources under the city of Perth in order to power air-conditioning facilities at the...
How to Stay Cool in a Crumbling Economy
Jul 3, 2009
Sometimes you can eat your words, and they taste good. LA's Coolhaus has taken the staid category of the ice cream truck and brought it inventively into our time. Using local and organic ingredients whenever possible, these ice cream sandwiches, all centered around an architectural theme, come in both "prefab" (generally offered) flavors, like Mies Vanilla Rohe, Mintimalism, and Frank Behry, and can be custom designed on request, either on the spot or as an ongoing exclusive flavor, like Renzo Pie-Ano launching soon at Wurstkuche . Coolhaus is an example of what the founders call "Farchitecture" - the exploration of the intersection of food and architecture, using disciplines not typically associated with each other to enhance the execution. ... -- CLICK HERE to Continue Reading and Comment
First Solar-powered Car Carrier Shines in Long Beach
Jul 3, 2009 (17 minutes ago)
While ocean ship operators were digesting news of a pending major rule from the Environmental Protection Agency on vessel air emissions, another vision of the future occurred at the Port of Long Beach , CA. A Toyota car carrier partially powered by solar energy docked at the port. The Auriga Leader is the first such green-technology-equipped car carrier to ply the high seas and it's about time. The vessel is outfitted with 328 solar panels that can generate up to 40 kilowatts, decreasing demand on the ship's diesel-powered auxiliary engines for electricity, thus cutting down pollution, the port says.... -- CLICK HERE to Continue Reading and Comment
How Wimbledon Uses Mass Appeal for Philanthropy
Jul 3, 2009
Photo Source: Fotosports / R. Parker As hoards of tennis fans cued in line for hours today, hoping to get a glimpse of Andy Roddick or Roger Federer on Centre Court, the organizers of the world’s premiere tennis event offered a concession to those unlucky enough not to get in this morning: Resales. While Wimbledon has been praised for not over-commercializing this year’s tournament, the reselling of tickets, at first mention, may seem like an attempt to institutionalize scalping. As original ticket holders exit the grounds, they have the option to make unwanted tickets available for other fans (either by depositing the actual tickets at select kiosks throughout the grounds, or if they want to keep them as a souvenir, having the barcodes scanned upon leaving so that new tickets may be generated). There is one big and important difference between this system, however, and the guys that stand outside stadium gates at baseball or football games. Beyond the fact that prices aren’t ridiculously inflated, all proceeds Wimbledon generates from ticket resales are donated to charity. ... -- CLICK HERE to Continue Reading and Comment
Suntech to invest $1bn in 500MW China solar project
Jul 3, 2009
Yvonne Chan in Hong Kong, BusinessGreen , Friday 3 July 2009 at 10:14:00 Deal comes as module maker secures $50m loan for next-generation Pluto technology Suntech Power Holdings, one of the world's largest photovoltaic module makers, yesterday announced it is to invest $1bn (£611m) in a 500MW on-grid PV project in China's south central city...
China plans dramatic increase in solar capacity to 2GW by 2011
Jul 3, 2009
Yvonne Chan in Hong Kong, BusinessGreen , Friday 3 July 2009 at 10:04:00 New subsidies aim to deliver fifteen-fold rise in installed capacity over next two years China is set to raise its target for installed solar capacity to 2GW by 2011, a fifteen-fold increase on the 140MW goal it set only last year....
Organic Odor Eraser from Poo-Pourri
Jul 3, 2009
At last, an organic way to eliminate odors before taking a crap. I’m so sick of all those harsh chemicals I usually use to spray the toilet before going number two. Oh no, wait a minute, I never spray the toilet with anything, because, frankly, pooping is about as natural as you can get. But that doesn’t stop Poo-Pourri from coming out with a new all new organic bathroom spray, aptly named: “Nature’s Call.” ... -- CLICK HERE to Continue Reading and Comment
Reporting on Possibly "Suppressed" EPA Document, CBS Suppressed Actual Climate Science
Jul 3, 2009
From our friends at Media Matters : CBSNews.com uncritically reported an internal EPA document's false claim that "global temperatures have declined for 11 years." In a June 26 CBSNews.com article reporting that the Environmental Protection Agency "may have suppressed" an internal report on climate change, senior correspondent Declan McCullagh uncritically reported the document's false claim that, in the article's words, "global temperatures have declined for 11 years." McCullagh identified that claim as one of "a number of recent developments [one of the document's authors, EPA researcher Alan Carlin] said the EPA did not consider" before ...
U.S. Top Polluter Per Capita, G8 Survey Says
Jul 3, 2009
By Vivi Gorman, GREENandSAVE.com The United States has the highest emissions of greenhouse gases per capita in the world, according to a survey of the G8 countries’ efforts on clean energy and reducing pollution by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and German-based financial services company Allianz SE. On July 1, a week out from the 2009 G8 summit in Italy , the two groups released the G8 Climate Scorecards , ranking Germany and the United Kingdom at the top and the United States as seventh. In previous years the United States has been ranked last. The annual G8 Climate Scorecard analyzes the ...
Climate Change Causes Sheep Shrinkage
Jul 3, 2009
Many years ago, I bought a beautiful wool sweater in Scotland. It was cream colored cable knit and I loved it. I wore it while traveling and it got a bit filthy. While in France, I decided to wash it at a public Laundromat and set the machine to C for Cold. The only problem is that in France C stands for Chaud, which means hot, and my sweater came out of the wash the size and weight of a small brick. It was upsetting. It turns out the same principle that applies to Scottish wool actually applies to Scottish ...
The Plastic Plan: Energy from Plastic Bottles
Jul 3, 2009
If we try to get rid of plastics altogether from our lives, we know that it is quite impractical. So what is the next best thing? We can recycle plastic in such a manner that it is economical and produces clean and green energy for our utilization. Industrial designer Chris Allen has come up [...] Posted in: Environment , Industry , Inventions
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Writing on the Green IdeaPaint Wall
Jul 3, 2009
IdeaPaint says it has the most environmentally friendly dry-erase product on the market. As you can see from these images, the product is applied to your choice of walls, and about seven days later, it's ready to be used. It's just perfect for the brilliant, A Beautiful Mind types, but I realize that many of you never have and never will use a dry-erase product. If you do, give IdeaPaint a look. The company claims green attributes in three main areas. First, IdeaPaint is a relatively healthy product. It's formaldehyde-free and does not off-gas once it's dry. Second, IdeaPaint requires less energy to make because it's stirred, whereas other dry-erase boards are baked and cured. Third, IdeaPaint ships with less materials than other dry-erase products, and IdeaPaint doesn't require the kind of raw materials used in typical dry-erase products ( i.e. , wood, steel, aluminum, vinyl, or resin). If you're an ideas person, you probably jot stuff down all the time. I like to carry a moleskin or legal pad for those bursts of inspiration, but I kind of like the idea of covering a wall at work with this paint. It could seriously come in handy. What do you think? [$] C..
Innovative German biomass plant begins operations
Jul 3, 2009
Germany has started operating a new biomass heating and power station that uses visit site to read more ]
Smart home can learn from, text residents
Jul 3, 2009
The UK can now boast it's created the first home that can learn from its inhabitants and even take action and send text messages if it's being burgled or a door has been left unlocked. Unveiled in … [ visit site to read more ]
Clean tech report: Q2 venture capital investment hits $1.2bn
Jul 3, 2009
James Murray, BusinessGreen , Thursday 2 July 2009 at 00:15:00 Green cars, battery developers and biofuels are the big winners as investment levels rebound The Cleantech Group and Deloitte yesterday released the second report this week confirming that venture capital investment in the second quarter of the year rebounded following two consecutive quarters of...
UK firm lays claim to world solar record
Jul 3, 2009
BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen , Thursday 2 July 2009 at 00:15:00 QuantaSol claims to have independently tested single junction solar cell with conversion efficiency of over 28 per cent UK start up QuantaSol has this week become the latest solar firm to stake a claim for the world record for photovoltaic solar cell efficiency, with the unveiling of a...
Jul 2, 2009
What if one day you woke up and the chatter in your mind had completely stopped and you where cognizant enough to know it? What if, in a short period of time, instead of worrying about your past, present situation or future you felt a complete sense of euphoria. Or what if one day you woke up and you could not remember how to speak, walk or understand language. What if you no longer could make sense of what your own body is, sounds and the boundaries between objects? You could experience all of this if you have a stroke in the left hemisphere of your brain as author Jill Bolte Taylor did at the age of 37. Join us for the Big Bang Book Club where we will read her book "My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey" Over the next eight years of her recovery, she turned her neuroscientist's eye on herself. The resulting book is a fascinating blend of science and memoir. Tuesday, July 28, 7-9p.m, Grumpy's Downtown, 1111 Washington Av. S. Minneapolis, (612) 340-9738 Sponsors: Magers & Quinn Booksellers; Secrets of the City; Center for Science, Technology and Public Policy; and Grumpy's. Follow Policy Catalyst on Twitter
Sahara Solar Project Could Make Germany Masters of the Solar Race
Jul 2, 2009
Cars are Germany’s principal employment generator. Come 2050, it could be the solar industry. Germany's Wuppertal Institute for Climate for Greenpeace and the Club of Rome says that if the right political push is given from now onwards, more than 580,000 jobs in concentrated solar power (CSP) could be created worldwide by the middle of this century. Concentrated solar power uses mirrors to harness the sun's rays to produce steam and drive turbines to produce electricity. Solar thermal power still remains more expensive than fossil fuels but political backing and government incentives could see a push in this area. But the project in the line of sight promises to tilt the scales on the side of power generation and employment. A project envisaged that will link power generated in Sahara to its use in Europe and North Africa could create 240,000 German jobs and generate 2 trillion Euros ($2,822 billion) worth of power by 2050. The study also projects that double that number of jobs could be created worldwide with the right political climate. Greenpeace energy expert Andree Boehling says , “Renewable energy could become Germany's leading industry in the 21st century. And concentrated ..
Jul 2, 2009
RealClimate has just eviscerated Roger Pielke, Sr. in an important post, “ More bubkes .” I am going to excerpt it at length because: It thoroughly debunks some now-standard denier talking points on sea level rise, ocean heat content, and Arctic sea ice that the Pielkes, WattsUpWithThat, Inhofe, George Will and others have been pushing. It has some excellent figures, including ones from the recent major peer-reviewed synthesis report of climate science since the 2007 IPCC report (which I wrote about here ). Pielke Sr. accused me of “a failure to understand the physics of global warming and cooling” in a post ( here ) about ocean heat content (which was gleefully reprinted by the anti-scientific website WattsUpWithThat), even though, as RealClimate definitively shows, it is Pielke who either fails to understand the science or chooses to willfully misrepresent it. In my post “ Breaking: NOAA puts out ‘El Niño Watch,' so record temperatures are coming and this will be the hottest decade on record ,” I had noted that Pielke Sr. loves to cherry-pick climate data over short time spans to make misleading scientific claims about climate. Climate..
Another ExxonMobil deceipt: They are still funding climate science deniers despite public pledge
Jul 2, 2009
In its May 2008 Corporate Citizenship Report , ExxonMobil promised: In 2008, we will discontinue contributions to several public policy research groups whose positions on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner. Bullshit. Okay, you're not shocked. Still, it is worth publicizing their deceipt, as the UK's Guardian did: ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate denial groups, records show The world's largest oil company is continuing to fund lobby groups that question the reality of global warming, despite a public pledge to cut support for such climate change denial, a new analysis shows. Company records show that ExxonMobil handed over hundreds of thousands of pounds to such lobby groups in 2008. These include the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) in Dallas, Texas, which received $75,000 (£45,500), and the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC, which received $50,000. According to Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at the London School of Economics, both the..
Shell Disputes Amnesty Report on Nigeria
Jul 2, 2009
A new report from Amnesty International blaming oil companies for wide-spread environmental abuse in the Niger Delta draws sharp criticism from Royal Dutch Shell.
Looking for Green Business Ideas? Check Out Gil Friend’s “The Truth about Green Business”
Jul 2, 2009
Another book on green business? You may be tempted to wonder if we need another one. After all, there are already numerous classics on the subject ( The Ecology of Commerce , Natural Capitalism , Mid-Course Correction ), as well as more recent books that bring the subject of sustainable business into the 21st century ( Green to Gold , Strategies for the Green Economy ). What can Gil Friend, founder and CEO of consulting firm Natural Logic, add to the subject with his new book The Truth About Green Business ? ( Note: that paragraph’s brimming to the gills with affiliate links… ) The short answer, of course, is “a lot”: Gil’s spent nearly 40 years in the sustainable business field, so he’s able to address questions ranging from the general (”What’s the business case for green?”) to the very specific (”What elements should an Environmentally Preferable Purchasing program include?) with deep knowledge of green business ideas, as well as plenty of real-life examples. What makes the The Truth about Green Business really stand out, though, isn’t necessarily the quality of information, but the format of the book itself. Mos..
Jul 2, 2009
Adding pieces to your bathroom such as a dressing table or updated sink can be costly and a waste of raw materials. With a little creativity and a lot of ingenuity, you can transform regular pieces of furniture into functional bathroom items. The enhancements can make your bathroom appear like new in an eco-friendly way. There are a variety of inexpensive routes you can take to recreate your bathroom. For example, you can transform office furniture into multi-purpose pieces. A desk can be cut down to fit against the wall so it serves as a dressing table. The larger drawers can be taken out, and you can soften the look of the furniture by replacing the existing drawers with basket drawers. Although there will still be office like elements, small details and adjustments can detract from this. Another option is to convert bedroom end tables into single counters. Depending on the size of your bathroom , two counters spaced out from one another can give the illusion of a larger space. If you want the tables to have a sink, some physical modifications will need to be made. However, a vessel sink and gooseneck faucet can give the table a whole new purpose. These tables can also be used a..
The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 2 July 09
Jul 2, 2009
You can really trust the oil industry: ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, said it would stop funding climate change deniers. But company records for 2008 show hundreds of thousands of dollars being funneled into fringe “think tanks” and trusts with a record of producing misleading and inaccurate information about climate change . The Amur tiger, native to the Russian steppe, is down to an “effective” genetic population of about 35 individuals, a new study claims. Even though the population has grown from about that many in total in the 1940’s to nearly 1000, the tiger’s genetic diversity ...
Carbon Convergence? Australia, U.S. Weigh Cap and Trade
Jul 2, 2009
While poring through the stories in my RSS reader the other day, I was struck by a subheadline in one that read: "Senators push back passage of greenhouse gas bill." Without knowing any different, one might assume that this was in reference to the climate bill currently being considered in the United States congress (and I had to check again myself), but alas, it was not. The article was about the climate legislation currently being considered and batted around in the Australian parliament. The similarities are striking. Both the United States and Australia are heavily reliant on burning coal for ...
Nokia secures top spot in green electronics ranking
Jul 2, 2009
BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen , Thursday 2 July 2009 at 16:33:00 Nintendo slammed again over poor toxics policy Greenpeace has today released its quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics, again awarding top spot to mobile giant Nokia and slamming games console manufacturer Nintendo for its poor environmental record....
Big Oil's Knocking on the Renewable Door
Jul 2, 2009
While attending the Renewable Energy Finance Forum Wall Street last week, I was almost surprised to see an entire discussion dedicated to how Big Oil plans on entering the cleantech business. The talk was led by Don Paul, Executive Director of the University of Southern California Energy Institute. In his former life, Mr. Paul was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Chevron. He knows a thing or two about the oil business. And his presentation was right to the point. ... -- CLICK HERE to Continue Reading and Comment
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