published March 13, 2009 and has No Comments
Want to reduce pollution and fight climate change? Coal-to-liquid fuel won't do it. Photo: Addictive Picasso via flickr In addition to all of the oral presentations and the Copenhagen Climate Congress over the past couple of days, there were dozens of poster presentations. These are just what they sound like, a large poster summarizing a piece of research. One ...
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published March 13, 2009 and has No Comments
The fact is, a conference on emerging technology didn't have to talk about green at all. There's a whole lot of cool techy stuff coming out that doesn't have much to do with being green. But the theme of green permeated the conference, which means sustainability is part of everything important happening in the technology world. And that's a ...
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published March 12, 2009 and has No Comments
In amidst all the academic presentations and statements by high-profile politicians and climate change campaigners, there were a couple of booths set up displaying some interesting products. If you're like me and enjoy playing around with interactive maps and interested in energy issues, then EnergyMap should be right up your alley. While concentrating on Danish companies, it details projects ...
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published March 8, 2009 and has No Comments
R/V Polarstern – a floating large scale laboratory. Image credit: AWI , Alfred Wegener Institute Surprising how often ideological opposites rely on similar tactics. It's happening now with environmental lobbyists opposing field experiments to validate a non-violent and potentially cost-effective way to put Patient Earth in the Climate Emergency Room: where stabilization and prognosis for a long term cure ...
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published March 5, 2009 and has No Comments
Crane moving chicken litter in power plant fuel hall during Fibrominn Grand Opening, Benson, Minnesota . Image credit: Fibrowatt USA. The poo-burn requirement is according to a story from the The News & Observer , Activists fight small power plants. Chicken waste as fuel draws fire Fibrowatt USA , a Pennsylvania subsidiary of New Hampsire's Homeland Renewable Energy , ...
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published March 5, 2009 and has No Comments
Source There used to be a big debate about which is better-paper or plastic bags; now we know the answer is neither- bring your own. Perhaps the debate going on now about virgin vs recycled toilet paper is similar- the best solution is to use neither. Christian Wolmar writes in the Guardian that "If everyone in the world used ...
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