Efficiency
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How To Choose The Best RV Solar Panels
homessuitehomes.com via @home_power &bull YesterdayWhatever activity you very much, it is probably a solar system available to electricity. The most popular RV solar panels, which helps these large vessels of the power of the sun can. If you help them save money and help the environment are concerned, you should see options for… 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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Dimensions of Sustainability: Architecture, Form, Technology, Environment and Culture
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New York Governor promises $40 million to improve energy efficiency
www.energyefficiencynews.com via @frugalelectric &bull Mar 5, 2010New York Governor David A. Paterson yesterday announced a $40 million investment to improve the energy efficiency of the state's schools, universities and colleges, hospitals and not-for-profit agencies. The 118 projects, funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA),… 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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Jordan Army Fights to Save the World by Attacking Climate Change
twilightearth.com via @MrGChampion &bull Feb 22, 2010By making military equipment more efficient through upgrading engines, old vehicles and using energy saving technologies, Jordan is a stand alone amongst 30 developing countries. The plan is not without it detractors though.You cannot expand the number of vehicles and… Full Story »
Daniel R. Headrick - Power Over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present
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New green economics.
Claimants Action South Wales &bull Feb 20, 2010New green economics.Friday 05 February 2010 Alan Simpson Whatever connects the controversy about how fast the glaciers are melting with the results of the latest British Social Attitudes Survey, it certainly isn't the latest Tory campaign poster "We can't go on like this" that links all three in confusion and insecurity. The British public have - rightly - become far more accepting of homosexuality and co-habitation rather than marriage. Caricatures that once presented these as a threat to the very fabric of society have largely melted away. We are beginning to see that what undermines society and relationships is a… 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 »
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Aloha Analytics: A New Electric Utility Paradigm
Aloha Analytics &bull Feb 20, 2010Focus on realistic energy and resource issues, local to global. Have an eye in this area for spotting trends and zeroing in on controlling, good information. Electric utilities operate now much as they did a century agobut the environment in which they operate is changing dramatically. Now more than ever before, utilities whose regulators reward them in the traditional way for selling more electricity risk losing revenue as customers use their electricity more efficiently. Climate change and energy security concerns, coupled with advances in disruptive technologies, may make conventional power-generating assets uncompetitive to build or even to run. Potential competitors… Full Story »
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Cotton Gin
Textile Technology Spinning &bull Feb 20, 2010Cotton fibers must be separated from the seed (ginned) before they can be used to manufacture textile goods. The first machine to gin cotton was the Churka gin. The Churka gin was most efficient when handling naked seeded varieties with loosely attached fibers. Early American settlers found that the fuzzy seeded varieties that yielded best in this country were difficult to gin on a roller gin. Consequently, the fiber was generally pulled from the seed (ginned) by hand until Eli Whitney patented his gin in 1794. Whitney's gin used spikes on a hand-driven cylinder to remove fibers from the seed.… Full Story »
BRADEN ALLENBY - Reconstructing Earth: Technology And Environment In The Age Of Humans
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After Life ArchitectureBoston
ArchitectureBoston &bull Feb 20, 2010When F. Scott Fitzgerald famously declared that ?there are no second acts in American life,? it may still have been largely true ? at least with regard to the built environment. The remark is attributed to notes Fitzgerald made while working on his unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, in the 1930s. And at that time, the United States was still plowing westward. There was enough frontier spirit left to keep Americans from dwelling too much on the past, when there was still so much of the country left to be settled. After the long deprivations of World War II, and… Full Story »
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Herman Daly
Adbusters Article Archive &bull Feb 20, 2010Herman Daly is one of the founders of the interdisciplinary field of ecological economics. Formerly a senior economist for the World Bank, he moved to the University of Maryland, College Park in 1994. He received the Right Livelihood Award (the ?Alternative Nobel Prize?) in 1996 for his work in developing ecological economics, incorporating ?the key elements of ethics, quality of life, environment and community.? The following excerpts are from his interview with ecological economist TomGreen. Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world. Poverty? Just grow the economy (increase the… Full Story »
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Two Ridiculously Simple Ways to Catapult Your Energy Levels
My Efficient Planet &bull Feb 20, 2010As a health researcher and health activist, as well as the host of the T.V. show Balanced Health, I get hundreds of questions from people every month. Not surprisingly, the most common question I get is How can I have more energy? It is the biggest outcry of the adult generation I WANT MORE ENERGY! That is understandable. Many infomercials have approached the subject. So have the pharmaceutical industry, designer coffee chains and specialty drink companies. Websters defines energy as the capacity of doing work. Energy can be obtained externally or produced internally. Energy from the outside, or external energy,… Full Story »
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EcoZone Kiosk.......Where, What, Why?
Park City Mountain Resort &bull Feb 20, 2010Glad to finally have our new EcoZone Kiosk up and running.Ive had hopes of having an information center such as this for several years but we had issues with locations and structures. Thankfully the structure onour Plaza (by the corner… Full Story »
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Going Green: Building A House With Sustainable House Plans
My Efficient Planet &bull Feb 20, 2010Years ago the idea of building a home with green principles seemed a bold investment. Now that everyone and every organization in the world unites to find ways to lessen global warming, the same idea has made a great impact… Full Story »
Scott Drake - The Third Skin: Architecture, Technology & Environment
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Method for Irrigation Scheduling Based on Soil Moisture Data ...
Stevens Water Monitoring Systems, Inc. &bull Feb 20, 2010The water requirements of crops are dependent on evapotranspiration (ET), soil chemistry, and the crop?s maximum allowable depletion (MAD). Direct measurements of root zone soil moisture, water application along with published ET values and soil textures, can be used in a soil water… Full Story »
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Cash For Appliances From Energysavers.gov, Do You Qualify?
My Efficient Planet &bull Feb 20, 2010Cash for Appliances is one of the newest programs brought to you from Energysavers.gov for homeowners who would like to receive a rebate on some of their home appliances that they are replacing, such as closthes washer, refrigeratiors and dishwashers. Different states have rebate programs that allow different items, so check your states… Full Story »
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Practical Bioethics: A Dispute over Dartmouth Data
Practical Bioethics &bull Feb 20, 2010An analysis written in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that much of the Dartmouth Atlas research is flawed and that it should not be used to compare the relative efficiency of hospitals. This is an academic argument. What the Dartmouth Atlas (DA) data show are that higher payments do not… Full Story »
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Green roof opportunities
REM - Real Estate Magazine &bull Feb 20, 2010Last year saw a batch of landmark environmental legislation passed all over North America. In the summer the United States House passed the Waxman Markey Act, and in December New York?s City Council passed a package of four green energy bills requiring energy audits and efficiency retrofits on buildings 50,000 square feet or larger. In Canada, Ontario passed the Green Energy Act in May, and during the same month Toronto enacted legislation requiring green roofs on new developments of 2,000 square metres… Full Story »
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Colin Ward - 1924-2010
Slugger O'Toole &bull Feb 20, 2010A few bits and pieces have come my way over the last few days whilst Ive been away for the mid term break. Not least the choice of Trevor Ringland as the UUs preferred candidate for East Belfast and Paula Bradshaw for South And as most publicised Mike Nesbitts late run in Strangford has also put some noses out of joint. Each, in their own way indicate a determination from the top to signal a change. High profile candidates in the two Robinson seats demonstrate an appetite for a fight. It remains to be seen whether those two candidates can… Full Story »
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Does California's Best Hope for Renewable Energy Lay in Mexico ...
LA Flaneur &bull Feb 20, 2010In the latest issue of High Country News, I write about Californias efforts to import green energy from Mexico. Local protests and NIMBY activism make building just about any new energy project in California politically impossible. Activists in the Mojave region of Southern California are currently fighting plans to build solar farms that could provide thousands of megawatts of… Full Story »
