published June 16, 2009 and has No Comments
Nikos Spiridakis, the 11 year old director of this PSA, was honored with the status of UN Junior Goodwill Ambassador Last Thursday evening at the United Nations several renewable energy luminaries—and some TreeHugger favorites—were honored at the IREO Renewable Energy Awards . That's the
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IREO Renewable Energy Awards Honors Industry's Best, Brightest (and Youngest)
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published June 16, 2009 and has No Comments
image: Desertec Utilizing the vast solar power potential of the Sahara has been a twinkle in the eye of many a European politician for a while now. Even though the logistics of building huge solar power arrays in the desert and then transmitting that electricity back across the Mediterranean isn't exactly simple, to say the least. Well, a consortium ...
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published June 15, 2009 and has No Comments
Samsung Crest Solar phone; image via Unwired View News has come out that rather than Samsung sending out their (sorta) solar-powered Blue Earth phone to the market of patiently waiting greenies, they're sending out a much cheaper Crest Solar . Like the Blue Earth, it incorporates a solar cell that can gather about 5 minutes of talk time from ...
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published June 15, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Joshua Davis See that water tower in the photo above? Most of New York City's buildings of a certain era have them. And Dr Majid Rashidi of Cleveland State University has a plan for them: Use them to generate wind power . Well, maybe not those towers specifically, but towers no more obtrusive than them. Here's how:...
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published June 15, 2009 and has No Comments
Biogas is growing more popular - photo via fordonsgas . Swedes are fond of making sweeping proclamations - oil-free by 2050 , they promised, and now Skåne, the country's southernmost region, is claiming it will end its dependence on fossil fuels by 2020 - just 11 years away. It's a bit of greenwash, in that it means the region ...
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published June 13, 2009 and has No Comments
Build Your Own Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Ahh - Green Power Science. It's a while since I checked in on husband-and-wife team Dan and Denise Rojas, the folks who previously brought us video of ten second solar flash cooked eggs , a
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DIY Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (Video)
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published June 12, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Sneakerboxx In an illuminating piece over at the Atlantic, political reporter Marc Ambinder runs down a list of the Republicans who are most influential in the White House. Predictably, they’re mostly the more moderate GOPers that get Obama’s ear—but there was something else that formed a common theme amongst them. And that's the fact that most of ...
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published June 12, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Alternative Energy Are there any other words that people are more tired of hearing than ‘green jobs’? I mean, they’re a great thing, and a key to our nation’s future economic success, but the term gets tossed around so much, people are starting to wonder where they actually are. And where is that? Put simply: on the ...
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published June 12, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Alternative Energy Are there any other words that people are more tired of hearing than ‘green jobs’? I mean, they’re a great thing, and a key to our nation’s future economic success, but the term gets tossed around so much, people are starting to wonder where they actually are. And where is that? Put simply: on the ...
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published June 11, 2009 and has No Comments
Chile is announcing the first solar thermal plant in South America. Photo: Alex Lang . Seems like a good week for South America in terms of encouragement of renewable energies. Yesterday we mentioned the announcement by a Spanish company to build in Argentina what could be the world's largest wind park . Now, we bring you the news that ...
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