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Home Made Wind Generator | Home Solar Power - Home Made Energy Review
easyhomemadesolarpower.com via @homemade_energy &bull Feb 23, 2010When I first came across the Home Made Energy report I thought that the authors were out of there minds. I always knew that it was possible to be able to build your own solar panels and wind turbines from home although I was always under the impression that they… Full Story »
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Fighting global warming the wrong way
www.ginosaronglobalwarming.org via @ginosar &bull Feb 21, 2010Dr. Matania Ginosar is an Environmental Scientist and Electrical Engineer. He has been manager of RD in Advanced Electronics, a Manager of the Solar Energy Office of the California Energy Commission and a Manager of Wind Energy for the California Energy Commission. This blog contains his thoughts on environmental issues, mostly in the… Full Story »
Sander Mertens - Wind Energy In The Built Environment: Concentrator Effects of Buildings
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Clipper confirms plans for wind turbine factory on Tyne for ...
Resources for a sustainable future &bull Feb 20, 2010The American company said it would invest in a testing facility at Walker, on the banks of the Tyne near Newcastle, for what it claims are the worlds largest turbine blades. Each of Windpowers Britannia turbines would be able to… Full Story »
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Wind Watch: Citizens' task force calls for wind power moratorium
National Wind Watch: News &bull Feb 20, 2010Augusta ? For Ethan Hall, who lives 3,500 feet from a wind turbine on Vinalhaven, being subjected to the turbines sound is like listening to a drippy faucet torture. I wouldnt be here if it was easy to get used to, Hall said at a Feb. 19 press conference… Full Story »
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Tales of the Riverbank - STWR
STWR Home Page &bull Feb 20, 2010In the current financial system, money follows the route towards the highest profit, regardless of the social and environmental consequences. Governments must foster alternatives to commercial banks in order to make finance serve the interests of the people, argues Molly Scott Cato. The collapse of the banking system was spectacular, but the banks have been failing us insidiously for years. As the Royal Bank of Sustainability report makes clear, they have long been directing money towards environmentally and socially destructive projects instead of investing in a safe future for humankind. As we are now the owners of huge quantities of… Full Story »
Wind Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment
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Coop Himmelb(l)au's Town Town Office Tower generates surplus energy
Ecofriend.org &bull Feb 19, 2010
Designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au, the Town Town Tower is a proposal for a sustainable office building to be developed in Erdberg, Austria. The crystalline building is the architect's implementation of an ultra-efficient building system, which upon completion will generate more… Full Story »
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Energy and Global Warming News for February 16: Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car - Nissan CEO predicts 10% of new cars in 2020 will be EVs; Saudi Arabia preparing for oil demand to peak
Climate Progress &bull Feb 16, 2010
The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations. In nearby Silicon Valley, companies are ordering workplace charging stations in the belief that their employees will be first in line when electric cars begin arriving in showrooms. And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing "heat maps" of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars. As automakers prepare… Full Story »
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Sloan Valve Tests Rooftop Aeroturbines
Jetson Green &bull Feb 15, 2010
A daily updated magazine that's obsessed with green building and everything related to it, including sustainable architecture, good design, green prefab, and eco-friendly development. Sloan Valve Company, manufacturer of water-efficient plumbing products, including the AQUS greywater system, last summer installed… Full Story »
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Gary Neville's Zero-Carbon Underground Home Blends Into the Earth
Inhabitat &bull Feb 12, 2010
Bolton Council in the United Kingdom may soon see the construction of its first zero-carbon underground home. Designed by Make Architects for green enthusiast and British football star Gary Neville, the one-story, nearly 8,000 sq ft structure has been designed… Full Story »
Venus II: Geology, Geophysics, Atmosphere, and Solar Wind Environment
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Small Wind Turbine Farm Nearly Complete at Quinnipiac University
Jetson Green &bull Feb 10, 2010
A daily updated magazine that's obsessed with green building and everything related to it, including sustainable architecture, good design, green prefab, and eco-friendly development. Adobe's installation of 20 small wind turbines on the sixth floor of their headquarters building made… Full Story »
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Town Town Office Tower bags sustainability prize at the MIPIM awards
Green Diary &bull Feb 9, 2010
The Town Town Office Tower, Vienna, Austria was declared the Sustainability Winner for MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards 2010. All thanks to the designer COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Wolf D. Prix / W. Partner ZT GmbH, who created an energy-active system… Full Story »
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Clean Energy and Green Jobs in 2010
Green Business &bull Feb 8, 2010
Green energy is taking center stage as 2010 gets underway. The Obama administration is making good on their promises that were made in 2009. There are critics who point out that the pace of these changes is too slow, and although they… Full Story »
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First LEED Platinum Home in Indiana
Jetson Green &bull Feb 5, 2010
A daily updated magazine that's obsessed with green building and everything related to it, including sustainable architecture, good design, green prefab, and eco-friendly development. A little over a month ago, this home received the first LEED Platinum certification for a… Full Story »
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Indiana's First LEED Platinum Home
Jetson Green &bull Feb 5, 2010
A little over a month ago, this home received the first LEED Platinum certification for a home in the state of Indiana. Located in Franklin, the 2,000 square-foot contemporary residence... Full Story »
Thornton W. Burgess - Old Mother West Wind and 6 Other Stories: The Adventures of Prickly Porky, the Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack, the Adventures of Bobby Raccoon, the Adventures of Jerry Muskrat
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Interior Secretary Sees Little Hope for Consensus on Wind Farm
NYT: Environment &bull Feb 3, 2010
Ken Salazar toured Nantucket Sound on a Coast Guard cutter, surveying the area where the proposed project would loom. Full Story »
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Green Jobs in Texas: More Than Just Talk
Environmental Defense Fund &bull Jan 29, 2010
When I started working on the Texas Green Jobs Guidebook last spring, talking to community college and workforce development folks around the state quickly made it clear that there was serious lack of information on what a green job is… Full Story »
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First Look: Honeywell Wind Turbine
Jetson Green &bull Jan 28, 2010
Not much has changed since our last update on the Honeywell Wind Turbine, except WindTronics released this video showing the gearless blade tip system at work. It's spinning nicely, and... Full Story »
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Is Your Co-Worker an Alien?
Mother Jones: The Blue Marble &bull Jan 28, 2010
Prepare to have your mind blown. A new Scientific American article by Paul Davies suggests that life as we know it on earth did not necessarily come from a single source. In fact, proof of extraterrestrial life could be "right… Full Story »
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Rooftop Devices Deployed to Store Energy as Ice
TreeHugger &bull Jan 27, 2010Okay, so it's not as sexy as a wind turbine. But it could be just as useful Photo via Green Inc Several power companies in Southern California and one in Colorado have recently signed a contract that will deploy rooftop… Full Story »
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Easy Wind Power Systems | The Article Highway
thearticlehighway.com via @gvaonline &bull Jan 27, 2010As our society matures and we begin to understand and appreciate that everything we do will have an impact on our environment, we are starting to look for better ways of suppling our energy needs. Using wind turbines might just be one of those alternative… Full Story »
