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Cleaning Up Sinking Concordia Cruise Ship Oil
The Concordia rammed a reef Jan. 13 on the tiny Tuscan island and capsized a few hours later just outside Giglio’s port with 4,200 passengers and crew aboard for a Mediterranean cruise. Experts can begin pumping fuel from a capsized cruise ship to avert a possible environmental catastrophe and the ship is stable enough to [...]
Hybrid Shark Found off Australian Coast
Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world’s first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, a potential sign the predators were adapting to cope with climate change. The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was an unprecedented discovery with implications for the entire shark world. This [...]
LED Times Square New Year Ball Drop
New Year’s Eve in New York City is more than just a celebration – it’s a global tradition. However, December 31st, 2011 will carry new significance as the Times Square Ball-the preeminent lighting symbol of New Year’s Eve- helps usher in a new era of energy efficiency in the United States. At 12:01AM on January [...]
Rainbow Pencil Trees
The life size pencil set was shown as part of an outdoor exhibition at Open Air Art Museum in Latvia. Pohjalainen created the pieces during the Environmental Art workshop on the museum’s grounds. Each day she’d sit in the grass and watch the sun set, and “sharpen” or carve away at the aspen logs, transforming [...]
BioTrade Butterfly Business
Alas de Colombia, founded in 2001, generates income through sustainable butterfly farming. Alas de Colombia is a refreshing sustainable BioTrade social business that does butterfly farming in order to create income for rural communities. In El Arenillo, Palmira city, Valle del Cauca (a district of Colombia), there are over 300 species of butterflies making it [...]
China Dominating Solar Panel Industry
Ten years ago, solar panels were made mostly in the United States, Germany, and Japan. Chinese manufacturers made almost none. But by 2006, the Chinese company Suntech Power had the capacity to make over a million silicon-based solar panels a year and was already the world’s third-largest producer. Today Chinese manufacturers make about 50 million [...]
Mexico Closing Biggest Garbage Dump
Mexico City will close one of the world’s largest garbage dumps by Dec. 31, 2011 and will instead turn the garbage from millions of people into reusable materials and energy. Some 700 trucks that carry garbage to the Bordo Poniente will no longer be admitted as of Monday, and all operations will cease by the [...]
Obama Approves Shell to Drill in Antartica
The Obama administration just approved Shell Oil’s plan to drill for oil in the Arctic, and even though it got its way, the company is still whining about “unwarranted restrictions” attached to this approval such as it can’t drill when winter ice is present. Shell is at the center of a classic Alaska development battle, [...]
Largest Bamboo Structure is Chocolate Factory
We’ve seen cutting boards, bicycles, floors, even houses made of bamboo, but an organic chocolate factory? Evidently, when Ben Ripple and Frederick Schilling, the two co-CEOs of specialty food company Big Tree Farms (BTF) talked about sustainably building their new plant, they put their money where their mouths are. Now, the Indonesian island of Bali [...]
Americans Leaving Suburbs
There are many in America who don’t like or trust cities, primarily because they harbor a disproportionate number of Democratic voters. They don’t like investments in transit, either, preferring the privacy and freedom of the car. But whether they like it or not, America is changing. First, the existing supply—that’s right, today’s stock—of conventional lot [...]
#1 Solar Private School- New England Prep
How it ranks in SAT scores or Ivy League admissions, we have no idea. But in the highly competitive world of New England prep schools, the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Mass., is definitely No. 1 at … solar. The private boarding high school and SolarWorld announced the completion of a 2-megawatt (MW) ground-mounted array at [...]
Paul McCartney Dislikes No Meat-Free French Days
There will be no meat-free days in French schools for six million children following a new decree from their government that all students will have to eat meat if they want lunch at school. Taking a packed lunch is not an alternative as they are also banned. The ban will shortly be extended to kindergartens, [...]
“Spotzi” 1st Free Online Atlas
D-Base is pleased to introduce Spotzi, the first free online world atlas, which provides information on more than 500 themes via maps. With Spotzi, the user can explore different aspects of the world in one place and learn about the ecosystem. “Spotzi stands for spot and zoom in. The user can explore the world in [...]
Gluing Away Air Pollution
It sounds like the sort of idea that might have came up on a satirical TV shows London is serious about gluing pollution to roads. For the past few months a fleet of specially adapted gritting lorries has been spraying adhesive glue on some of London’s pollution hotspots in the middle of the night. The [...]
LA to SanFran Rail Project
Across the country, the era of ambitious public works projects seems to be over. Governments are shelving or rejecting plans for highways, railroads and big buildings under the weight of collapsing revenues and voters’ resistance- But not in California. State leaders —have rallied around a plan to build a 520-mile high-speed rail line from Los [...]
World Expo in China
The World Expo in China, the world’s largest in history with 73 million attending, for the first time in 159 years focused on cities, sustainable ones that is. Throughout its six-month run, more than 500 new technologies in solar, heat pumps, energy efficiency, transportation and advanced material were developed as part of the Expo. For [...]
Gisele wins Best Green Intl Celebrity
Gisele’s Eco Message on Youtube Gisele Bündchen was named ‘Best Green International Celebrity’ at this year’s Green Awards at a ceremony at the National History Museum in London on November 24. The 31 year old Brazilian supermodel who has preciously starred in campaigns for labels such as Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino and Versace is also [...]
Dubai’s Reef Construction
Nakheel, the Dubai property developer behind the emirate’s manmade islands, laid out plans in November 2011 to build a string of artificial reefs off the city-state’s coast in a bid to attract more aquatic life. The project aims in part to revitalize fishing prospects in the azure Persian Gulf waters that lap at Nakheel-built islands [...]
Nazi Bunker Becoming EU largest Solar Plant
A former Nazi bunker located in the Wilhelmsburg district of Hamburg, Germany is about to get a full-scale makeover. The building is set to become Europe’s largest renewable energy power plant. The power plant will supply 3,000 homes with heating and 1,000 of those with electricity, cutting 6,600 tons of CO2 per year. It’s almost [...]
Global Renewable Energy Status
In 2010, renewable energy supplied an estimated 16% of global final energy consumption and delivered close to 20% of global electricity. Renewable capacity now comprises about a quarter of total global power-generating capacity. Global solar PV production and markets more than doubled in comparison with 2009, thanks to government incentive programs and the continued fall [...]
Cutting Rockfeller Center Tree
This week, a Norway spruce planted in 1931 was cut down in the prime of its life. It was loaded onto a truck in Mifflinville, Pennsylvania and sent east to New York City, where it arrived on Friday. On November 30, it will take place as the latest in a long line of majestic Christmas [...]
RI Renewable Energy Grants
If you are a business interested in implementing renewable energy at a lower cost, look to see if your state if offering grants. For example, Governor Lincoln D. Chafee and Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIEDC) Executive Director Keith Stokes on October 27,2011 announced $2.7 million in new grants through the RIEDC’s Renewable Energy Fund [...]
EcoBond Two
Ecotricity is seeking to raise £10 million through its ‘Ecobond Two’, which will enable customers and non-customers of the UK’s largest renewable energy company to invest directly into building new sources of green energy in the UK. When Ecotricity launched its first Ecobond issue in October last year, it was heavily oversubscribed, exceeding its £10 [...]
Shrinking Forests
The Amazon and the Congo are the world’s first and second biggest forests, respectively, and its third biggest — the Borneo Mekong — is in Indonesia. The rate of destruction of the world’s three largest forests fell 25 percent this decade compared with the previous one, but remains alarmingly high in some countries, the U.N. [...]
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