Belo Monte going forward?Brazil awarded a domestic consortium on Tuesday rights to build the world’s third-largest hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rain forest in a chaotic auction amid criticism the dam is an environmentally hazardous money loser. […]
Ontario Solar Power could match US Nuclear Power Queen’s University Applied Sustainability Research Group located in Kingston, Canada comes out with two studies that claim solar power in southeastern Ontario can be created in abundance. The natural question is how much abundance? The answer is mind-boggling. Southeastern Ontario has the potential to produce almost as […]
Water into Hydrogen Fuel with Waste Energy With each passing day, scientists are coming out with unique solutions to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels. They are now thinking of turning stray forms of energy such as noise or random vibrations from the environment into useful form of energy. They want to use piezoelectric effect […]
NASAs Puffin: The Personal Electric Air Vehicle Mark Moore, an aerospace engineer, is the person who dreamed about the Puffin. Puffin is a single seated electric powered airplane. Moore conceptualized the idea of electric aircraft for his doctoral degree. Operating it from your house is as simple as taking out your car from the garage. […]
For Earth Day’s 40th anniversary, colleges vow to be climate neutral.As of Earth Day, more than 650 colleges and universities have pledged to become “climate-neutral,” meaning that they will eventually stop adding carbon dioxide and other climate-warming gases to the atmosphere.
Energy Day and Night from Solar/Fuel Cell CombinationSplitting Water by efficient, catalyzed electrolysis to give […]
EPA Finalizes the 2008 National U.S. Greenhouse Gas InventoryThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the15th annual U.S. greenhouse gas inventory report, which shows a drop in overall emissions of 2.9 percent from 2007 to 2008. The downward trend is attributed to a decrease in carbon dioxide emissions associated with fuel and electricity consumption. […]
Biofuels and Carbon Capture from Frog Foam? Since time immemorial human beings are trying to use solar energy for their survival and day to day use. We know that green plants create their own food and energy with the help of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis happens in the presence of sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. The end […]
Indias Disappearing TigersI admit Id hoped for something a little more exciting after a seven-and-a-half-hour journey from New Delhi to one of Indias best-known wildlife parks. Its not that we didnt see any wildlife when we made the trek late last month to the Corbett National Park in the northern state of Uttaranchal. […]
Walmart suppliers have questions, we have answers: Join the Sustainability Index webinar on WednesdayIn July 2009, Walmart began the development of a sustainable product index called the Sustainability Index. Like most folks in the corporate sustainability world, I was incredibly impressed and excited about the prospects of this mean, green, sustainability machine. But I was […]