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#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, [...]
Eco Friendly Gift Wrapping
‘Tis the season for living rooms around the country to be covered in a sea of crumpled paper and tossed-aside bows. Yup, wrapping paper from holiday gifts is largely to blame for a 25 percent spike in curbside trash volume between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, according to the EPA. (And if Grandpa’s just tossing [...]
How Gas Prices Affect Driving
Americans love to gripe about high gas prices, but they actually pay some of the lowest fuel costs in the world. Part of the reason for this hidden discount is that lawmakers have refused to raise the federal gasoline tax since 1993. In fact the tax has lost value over time, since it’s not even [...]
Toyota and BMW Green Battery
Toyota, BMW To Work Together On Greener Car Battery. Auto giants Toyota and BMW agreed to collaborate on research for cleaner, next-generation car batteries,underlining the growing push in the industry for green technology. The agreement brings together Toyota Motor Corp., Japan’s No. 1 carmaker and a leader in gas-electric hybrids, and BMW AG of Germany, [...]
“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 [...]
Amazon Electronics Ca$h Trade-In
Instead of throwing away your electronics, what better option than to “recycle” them with Amazon and get cash back? What is the Amazon Trade-in Program? The Amazon Trade-In Program allows you to receive an Amazon.com Gift Card in exchange for sending your eligible items to us or a merchant. You can trade products in the [...]
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 [...]
Levi’s Jeans Water Use
What could be more American than a great-fitting pair of jeans? Denim, whether as pants, jackets, dresses or skirts, is as popular in the fashion capitals of Europe as it is here. Unfortunately, denim is also one of those fabrics that has a larger impact than most on the environment. From the growing and processing [...]
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 [...]
Crashed Ferrari Table
There are plenty of ways to recycle scrap metal from a car, but this coffee table made from a bale of scrap metal from a crashed Ferrari must be one of the quirkiest bits of furniture humour, delivered with a straight face. Made by French designer Charly Molinelli (http://molinellidesign.com/), the table features a glass top, [...]
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 [...]
Mashable Recommends 80+ Green Sites
Do you find yourself wondering where are the “Green” related websites? Afterall, Green is the new Black. Yahoo is currently holding a contest to find a green logo, while just last week a green living social network was acquired. Mashable.com has compiled this great list of over 80 green sites in the following sectors: Carbon [...]
Celebrity Green Home Tips
Jessica Alba is gung-ho about creating an eco-friendly home for her family. Right down to the backyard grass that surrounds her outdoor pool. She is a green client of all my client and really cares about the earth. Alba chose Forever Lawn, a waterless “grass” that’s created from recycled tires and has a 15-year guarantee. [...]
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 [...]
Starbucks Sustainability Award
Starbucks received the green building design award during the 12th Annual Sustainable Design Awards for achieving LEED certification for all new company-owned stores from 2010. The company was also aiming to make all Starbucks cups recyclable by 2015. It believes, to recycle the cups, customers must have the opportunity to recycle the cups wherever they [...]
LuminAid
Two New York City university students have developed a solar lantern design that could see use in undeveloped nations, in locations where access to electrical light sources just doesn’t exist or camping. It’s a situation common to no less than 1.6bn global residents but it could be countered by the innovative solar-powered LuminAID – the [...]
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 [...]
T.27 by Formula1 Designer
T.27 is currently the “World’s Most Efficient Electric Car”. Gordon Murray Design’s T.27 electric city car achieved a clean sweep in the second running of the RAC Future Car Challenge on Saturday. The T.27 covered the 57.13 miles from Brighton to London carrying 2 occupants, inside the allocated time using less than 64 pence worth [...]
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 [...]
United Airlines BioFuels
The first commercial biofuel-powered flight in the United States took place the first week of November 2011. United Airlines, the world’s largest air carrier, will pilot the service between Houston, Texas, and Chicago, Illinois, in a Boeing 737-800 which cited algae-based biofuel makes Solazyme as its source. Solazyme’s Solajet branded fuel, is a blend of [...]
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 [...]
Solar Facebook
The world’s largest social networking site recently announced plans to utilize more renewable energy to power it’s new Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. Last year, Facebook was scrutinized by its users for using coal to supply the energy for its massive data centers. The company responded by reminding the public that power for its newest data [...]
Airdrop Dessert Irrigation
Are droughts a thing of the past? This year’s James Dyson Award prize winner Edward Linacre created the Airdrop with the hopes of creating a solution for agriculture in arid regions. Airdrop is a low cost, self powered, and easy to install solution that came about when Linacre was considering the ramifications of Australia’s worst [...]
Daylight Savings
In March, roughly 1/4 of the world’s population will lose sleep and gain sunlight as they set their clocks ahead for daylight saving. People think that time shift, conserves electricity otherwise spent on lighting. But studies have cast doubt on the energy argument. Benjamin Franklin is credited with conceiving the idea of daylight saving in [...]
Vegan vs. Vegetarian
Although the reasons do vary, health is the main reason people become vegans and vegetarians. Both vegans and vegetarians diets are able to protect an individual from different forms of cancer since foods such as herbs, vegetables and fruits have phytochemicals such as flavonoids, phenolic acids and ellagic acids which are cancer-protective. Vegans and vegetarians [...]
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. [...]
Farm Factory
United States Farm Factory Facts The number of Farm Factories is decreasing, but the size of existing Farm Factories is increasing. Vegans and vegetarians are fighting against Factory Farms by avoiding meat. Lets take a look at Factory Farm data across the US. •There are 4 factory-farmed chickens for every single American. •U.S. hog factory [...]
Desertec EU-MENA
A network of scientists from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EU-MENA) developed the globally implementable DESERTEC Concept for the Mediterranean region. A long-term objective is to meet a considerable part of electricity demand in MENA countries and to cover about 15 percent of Europe’s energy demand with clean power from deserts by 2050. [...]
First Wind
First Wind is an independent North American wind energy company that has 13 Wind Farm across the country and is planning on growing. (See Map for locations) Based in Boston, First Wind has developed and operates 735 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity at 13 wind energy projects in New York, New England, Utah, Vermont and [...]
Vision 2040- Shipping
Global shipping companies unite for ‘Vision for 2040’ to address shipping industry emissions. The Sustainable Shipping Iniative (SSI) signatories are: 1 ABN AMRO bank N.V.2 BP Shipping 3 Bunge 4 Cargill 5 Carnival 6 China Navigation Co. 7 Daewoo Shipbuilding 8 Gearbulk 9 Lloyd’s Register 10 Maersk Line 11 Rio Tinto Marine 12 Royal Sun [...]
Taipei 101- Largest Green Building
Taipei 101 may no longer be the world’s tallest building but now it has another coveted title to its credit-“World’s tallest green building”. In 2007 Burj Khalifa which is 828 m high surpassed the Taipei 101 (506 m high) to become the world’s tallest building. Taiwan has invested $1.8 million in energy efficiency upgrades which [...]
Eco Skis
Skiing may not be the greenest activity in the world. Artificial snow can easily be considered a waste of fresh water. Ski lifts burn a lot of electricity taking people up a mountain just to go back down it again and traveling to the mountains may emit a lot of carbon emissions. But now, eco-friendly [...]
Population Carbon Footprint
The 7 billionth baby is expected to arrive around Halloween in 2011. Spooky! It’s easy to blame developing countries, but if you want to find the source of the population problem, check the mirror.Population isn’t just about counting heads. The impact of humanity on the environment is not determined solely by how many of us [...]
“Plastic Ocean” by Charles Moore
Charles Moore has done more than anyone could imagine after his historic discovery of the monster two-million square mile Great North Pacific Garbage Patch in 1997.Moore, skipper of ORV Alguita, a 50-foot Tasmania-built catamaran, first comes upon some of that plastic on his way back from a trans-Pacific sailing race, when the strongest El Niño [...]
John Hardy Bamboo
John Hardy is multimillion-dollar jewelry company that has set the bar for eco-consciousness in luxury goods, prompting the Financial Times to name it one of the top 100 green businesses in the world. “Green” is the new black…especially when it comes to the Angela by John Hardy Jewelry Collection. It has stunning sterling silver designs [...]
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