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MrBabyMan
Sleek Solar and Wind-Powered Hybrid Street Lamps
inhabitat.com — Designed and manufactured by Urban Green Energy, these solar/wind-powered street lamps are mounted upon a standard galvanized steel pole that can be made locally and easily swapped with older street lamps. The lamps use renewable energy to provide light and are capable of operating completely off-grid. More…
janinekahn
adrian67
WordsnCollision
The Dirty Truth About Carbon Capture
huffingtonpost.com — There's much to love about carbon capture, in theory. But what most people love about carbon capture is also what's wrong with it. Carbon capture continues our dependence on coal-fired power plants, and does little to change the status quo. In other words, carbon capture does nothing to get us off the coal standard. More…
Bukowsky
itc518
Bike Powered Bus Rides!
yankodesign.com — A public-rental bicycle concept that uses a pretty simple dynamo in the wheel combined with some circuitry in the bike that generates a generous amount of power that’s then saved on the bike until it’s parked. Once the bike is returned to its rental spot, parked, hooked up, it provides power to the nearby hybrid bus system! More…
naturalpapaFollow the Crop System Puts Biofuel Refinery in the Fields
greenlivingideas.com — A new biofuel production system, dubbed “Follow the Crop”, aims to reduce costs of production and increase income of small to medium growers by bringing the biorefinery right into the fields. The new system would open the biofuels market to smallholders, who could put marginal lands into biofuel crops without committing to large scale planting. More…
'Rosetta Stone' Of Bacterial Communication Discovered
sciencedaily.com — The Rosetta Stone of bacterial communication may have been found. Although they have no sensory organs, bacteria can get a good idea about what's going on in their neighborhood and communicate with each other, mainly by secreting and taking in chemicals from their surrounding environment. More…
chris1234New, Highly Toxic Pesticide: 4780 Times More Potent Than CO2
enn.com — Dow AgroSciences proposes using sulfuryl fluoride to sterilize soil in farm fields. They want to release 32,435 lbs of sulfuryl fluoride on 65 acres of test plots in Florida, Georgia, Texas, and California. Releasing just 10% of that amount into the air would be equivalent to releasing 15.5 million pounds of carbon dioxide! More…
biofriendlyblog
FI5HERMAN
The surface of the moon, here on Earth [SLIDESHOW]
news.cnet.com — Formed from thousands of years of activity along the "Great Rift" of the Snake River Plain, lava "welled up,"according to a National Park Service brochure, "to produce this vast ocean of rock. The most recent eruption occurred a mere 2,000 years ago, and geologists believe that future events are likely."This smooth flowing lava is known as pahoehoe More…
HotterDigg
The Dark Age of Manned Space Exploration: 1969-2009
fanboy.com — As a child who spent most of his life after the Apollo project it’s my humble opinion that over the last 40 years we’ve been living a micro-dark age of space exploration. To me the 40th Anniversary of Apollo isn’t a cause for celebration, but is in fact a funeral for NASA which has been a shadow of its former self. More…
mklopez
Proposed Pesticide 5000x More Potent Greenhouse Gas than CO2
planetsave.com — A group of public health and environmental advocates are asking the U.S. (EPA) to deny a request for a permit from Dow AgroSciences which would allowing the company to release large amounts of sulfuryl fluoride, a toxic pesticide, onto farm fields in four states. “The hazards of using sulfuryl fluoride in agriculture have not been evaluated.” More…
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