Technology
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The green revolution sweeps into the bathroom
Climate Change News Digest &bull 5 Hours AgoHelen Knight, clean tech correspondent The humble toilet could be set for an upgrade. Environmentally-friendly "NoMix" toilets that separate urine and faeces could help to reduce pollution and save water. And support is growing for the adoption of the techno-toilets,… Full Story »
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Green tech can't shake the bubble question
CNET GreenTech blog &bull Yesterday
If there was consensus among panelists, it was that have already been "mini bubbles," driven either by overzealous investors or government subsidies. The most recent examples are solar, where dozens of companies were formed over the past few years, and corn ethanol, an industry which grew rapidly based on supportive government polices.… Full Story »
Dimensions of Sustainability: Architecture, Form, Technology, Environment and Culture
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CBS Evening News on China's Lead in the Clean Energy Race
WattHead &bull Yesterday
CBS correspondent Celia Hatton reports, "China is the country cashing in on the green revolution." The video echoes the findings of a recent report on clean tech competitiveness by Breakthrough Institute and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, "Rising Tigers,… Full Story »
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Green Building: The difference between cost and value
Environmental Economics &bull Yesterday
From CNN.com: Lots of people, especially those trying to battle high utility bills, believe in energy-efficient homebuilding. But there's something holding green technology back: It simply costs more to include it than it adds to resale value. Appraisals for newly… Full Story »
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Green Job Spider Puts Green Techies to Work
GoodCleanTech &bull Mar 9, 2010
With green technology booming, so are jobs in the green tech industry. To capitalize on that and provide easy access to over 50 green-job boards scattered across the Internet is new job search engine Green Job Spider. Job listings are… Full Story »
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Daniel R. Headrick - Power Over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present
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Wanted: GWPF assistant director to reveal thinktank's funding
www.guardian.co.uk via @radixextreme &bull Mar 9, 2010The Global Warming Policy Foundation calls for transparency among climate scientists but refuses to make public its donors. The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the thinktank set up last November "to bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist, and all too often depressingly intolerant", goes from strength to strength, it would seem. Just a few days after its chairman, Nigel Lawson, and director, Benny Peiser, appeared before the science and technology select committee to answer questions about the inquiry into the climate science emails hacked from the University of East Anglia, a… Full Story »
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New Combustion System Greatly Boosts Gas Mileage, Company Says
Climate Change News Digest &bull Mar 9, 2010Transonic Combustion's new fuel-injection technology Khosla and other venture capitalists, says it has invented a new fuel injection system that heats and pressurizes gasoline before injecting it into the combustion chamber, placing the fuel in a "supercritical" state that allows… Full Story »
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Can South Africa Green The World Cup?
www.care2.com via @777inks &bull Mar 9, 2010Hello, I saw this on Care2 and thought you'd like it as well. Despite the coveted flashes of gold, silver and bronze, many people were concerned with another color at the recent 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver- green.Although the Vancouver Olympic Commitee pledged to offset 118,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, is was discovered that this figure amounted to less than half of Games-related emissions (Greenr.ca).Still,… Full Story »
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Best Rank Creates New, Environmentally-Friendly Cloud-Based Site Search Technology
RE: Wind Power News &bull Mar 9, 2010
Best Rank's new Cloud-Based Site Search technology is the first development of a cloud-based software product suite to reduce costs along with environmental impact. Full Story »
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BRADEN ALLENBY - Reconstructing Earth: Technology And Environment In The Age Of Humans
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More Venture Capital Money to Flow into Energy Efficiency
greentechadvocates.com via @GreenTechSteve &bull Mar 8, 2010Recent Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) research finds that 70 percent Americans are concerned about the cost of their monthly electricity bills and that a majority of Americans are interested in technology that would lower their energy bills and manage their… Full Story »
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The Newest Hybrid Model
Peak Oil News (3) &bull Mar 8, 2010
But that is not its real novelty. The solar array is being grafted onto the back of the nations largest fossil-fuel power plant, fired by natural gas. It is an experiment in whether conventional power generation can be married with… Full Story »
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EPA Using OpenECU from Pi Shurlok in Engine and Hybrid Development Programs
Green Car Congress &bull Mar 8, 2010
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been using Pi Shurlok's OpenECU M460 and G850 control modules for the past year to support technology development programs in the areas of Advanced Engine Control and Hybrid Vehicle Powertrain Control. As... Full Story »
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Sustainable Living: Monbiot, solar panels, and consumerism
sustliving.blogspot.com via @smartecoliving &bull Mar 8, 2010We are washing away the foundations of our existence on every front. It is high time we move from crashing about on the planet like a bull in china shop and find a way to go forward with intent. We must find systems of living based on sustainability. The systems and tools exist, it is up to each of us to adopt them. This was posted in over on facebook on Dave Hampton's profile in reference to the post from George Monbiot regarding feed in tariffs on monbiot.com. I've seen others get bogged down in a single leg of the… Full Story »
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Will Surging Smart Grid Investments Result in Surging Electric Prices?
Alternative Energy Stocks &bull Mar 6, 2010John Petersen The electric power system in the U.S. is dirty, antiquated, stupid, unstable, and a security nightmare. After years of discussion and debate, consensus now holds that the generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure will need hundreds of billions in new investment to reduce emissions, improve reliability, minimize waste and inefficiency, improve security, and facilitate the integration of wind,… Full Story »
Scott Drake - The Third Skin: Architecture, Technology & Environment
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To Achieve Energy Efficiency, HVAC Must be Retrofitted
hvac-retrofits.com via @DYBDave &bull Mar 5, 2010When it comes to energy efficiency, HVAC systems are typically way down the pecking order. Such systems have a considerable challenge as they need to regulate air temperature, humidity and flow within a hostile environment. The systems rely on a series of external triggers and thermostats and… Full Story »
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Use DIY Solar Panels To Generate Electricity For Your Home
www.alternativeenergyhq.com via @Sunenergy4all &bull Mar 4, 2010If you're new here at Alternative Energy HQ, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed for all the latest updates on energy news. And be sure and grab a copy of our free ebook on Alternative Energy. The opt in is over there on the left side of… Full Story »
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Energy efficiency starts at home
www.kdhnews.com via @BTUresearch &bull Feb 23, 2010From staff and wire reportsColder temperatures and higher electric bills have many Central Texas residents steamed at Oncor and retail electric providers like TXU.But, as Oncor representatives have pointed out in informational sessions around the area in the past couple of weeks, customers have a lot more power… Full Story »
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Canada's Oil Sands Threaten To Speed Global Warming
www.care2.com via @care2 &bull Feb 22, 2010Hello, I saw this on Care2 and thought you'd like it as well. The Canadian province of Alberta is home to a form of oil that's considered the dirtiest on earth. It's called the oil sands, also known as tar… Full Story »
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Facebook update: Renewable energy now | Greenpeace International
www.greenpeace.org via @BellsSrbija &bull Feb 22, 2010International Facebook recently announced it will build a massive data centre in Oregon, U.S., packed full of the latest energy efficient computers to serve the hundreds of millions of friends connecting on their near-addictive social networking website. But the company plans to run… Full Story »
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Aguanomics: Future of Irrigated Agriculture pt2
Aguanomics &bull Feb 20, 2010Lower Tule River Irrigation District applies water in perhaps a "wasteful" manner. But what he showed was that Pixley Irrigation District next door pumps heavily from the aquifer that the two districts share, and pumps most heavily near the border. So while making LTRID more efficient may seem like a good idea, in this case basin wide efficiency is higher than field level efficiency because PID reuses LTRIDs percolation. I have learned recently that LTRID… Full Story »
