January 2009
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Greening Chicago One Roof at a Time →
“Since 2005, Chicago has embarked upon an ambitious plan to turn the city’s barren rooftops into urban oases. Thanks in large part to Mayor Richard M. Daley’s incentive program offering $5,000 grants to residences and small businesses, as well as requirements that some large retailers install green roofs as part of doing business in the city, Chicago now has more living green roofs than any...
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Scientists Given Go-Ahead for Ocean Fertilization... →
i would be more comfortable with this experiment if it were done in a closed environment that if something goes horribly awry, an entire ecosystem is not destroyed.
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Human Sewage to Power Buses in Norway →
it seems this country’s newest green fuel is actually brown [i’m sorry, i couldn’t help myself!]: “In Oslo, air pollution from public and private transport has increased by approximately 10% since 2000, contributing to more than 50% of total CO2 emissions in the city. With Norway’s ambitious target of being carbon neutral by 2050 Oslo City Council began investigating...
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Spring Gardens Start With Winter Reading →
a great list of books to get your healthy garden going. i, for one, hope to take up Square Foot Gardening this spring.
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Recycled Roof Shingles Find New Use in Boulder... →
“The project, a first for Colorado, is being launched with funding from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Alternative Technology Program. In partnership with the Boulder County Transportation Department, Colorado Department of Transportation and 3R Roofing, the Roofs to Roads Project will pave a road using recycled asphalt tear-off shingles (RAS). The project will...
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New Research Adds to Indictment Against Bisphenol... →
this is a must read for anyone, especially those with little tykes running around.
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World's First Hybrid Tugboat: 44 Percent Less... →
(via reform)
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Solar Cells as thin as film negatives →
hydeordie:
A scientist has discovered a way to capture energy using cells broken down, spliced, cubed, and reassembled into a transparent “film” that can be used on office building windows, airplanes, “power generating pants” and more. The possibilities are endless. An upstart in North Carolina has picked up the rights and I can not wait until this is up and running. The potential of this...
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Kohler Web Campaign to Help Homeowners Save Water →
“For each person who visits the SaveWaterAmerica.com site and takes a 3-question quiz about their water use, the company will offer one dollar’s worth of water-saving products to Habitat for Humanity.”
take the quiz! according to my results, i could save 20,774 gallons of water per year which works out to $114/year. that’s pretty darn good.
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Capturing the power of whirlpools | Yahoo! Green →
in attempting to create a water purification system that uses a vortex to draw out contaminants, Franz Zotloterer also created a new form of small scale hydropower.
“Instead of channeling the water directly through a turbine, vortex hydropower creates a spinning vortex, and draws energy from the swirling water. This approach makes it possible to generate energy without completely blocking...
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