Air quality improved, officials say (1)
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Download Free PDF Book from Amazon - Blue Planet Run (6)
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Don’t miss this. Blue Planet Run is a book with over 250 awe-inspiring photographs captured by some of the world’s top photojournalists. The idea is to help you know about water problems faced by people in different parts of the globe. Here are some pictures from the ‘Blue Planet Run’ book: 40 billion - The number of hours spent each year in Africa due to the need to collect water. People wrestle in Delhi for ...
P. Kim Bui shared as favorite YellowPagesGoesGreen Like Do Not Call List for Giant Wastes of Paper [Environment] (8)
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The various yellow and white pages organizations deliver a whopping 540 million unsolicited books every year, and web site YellowPagesGoesGreen aims to prevent this gigantic and obsolete waste of paper from landing at your doorstep. There is no national service similar to the previously mentioned Do Not Call Registry for opting out of the yellow pages, but most individual yellow and white page organizations claim that you can opt out. What YellowPagesGoesGreen does is provide ...
M2E Power promises phones that charge when you walk (1)
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Sick of recharging your phone every day? Sick of the battery slowly losing power all day long? It comes with the territory with batteries, unfortunately. That may not always be the case, however. Imagine if your phone charged itself up as you walked around, never requiring a recharge at an outlet. It may be possible in the not too distant future thanks to motion-powered electronics in development by M2E Power. The tech is based on ...
Sierra Club sells its soul - - but for how cheap? (1)
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Clorox is the latest company trying to take advantage of the current desire to be eco-conscious, and decided a good way to sell more product would be obtaining an endorsement from the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club agreed to lend its name, and the Sierra Club logo now appears on every Green Works product. No big deal you say? Just a creative way for the Sierra Club to earn some money it can put to ...
A Plague of Jellyfish Headed for the U.K. [Climate Disaster] (5)
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Last year, roaming mega-packs of jellyfish wiped out an entire Irish salmon farm stocked with 100,000 fish and forced the closures of several beaches in the U.K. In some areas, jellyfish have become so populous that they've taken over: 90 percent of the Black Sea's fauna are jellyfish (pictured). Of course climate change and overfishing are the cause. Warmer waters plus the elimination of the jellyfish's natural predators allow the delicate, stinging creatures to reproduce ...
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Alex said:
Yeek. And yes, eat 'em.
Coinstar Calls Cashing In Change 'Recycling' [Greenwashing] (2)
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Douglas writes, "Coinstar wants you to 'recycle' your coins in their machines, and save the environment! Minus their 8.9% fee of course." They even have a little wizard on their website that estimates how many parts of the environment—water, energy consumption, and geological waste—you save by putting those coins back into circulation, instead of hoarding them like the polar bear murderer you are. They don't provide any source for these estimates, though, and we're not ...
15 Astonishing Real-Life Applications of Nanotechnology (20)
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Let’s get small! Rapid advances in the exciting field of nanotechnology are allowing us to shrink everyday objects to previously-unimaginably small dimensions. When objects and distances fall in the range of 1 to 100 nanometers (a nanometer is a billionth of a meter), Newtonian Physics gives way to Quantum Physics - with real-life applications in fields as diverse as medicine, robotics, and even artificial intelligence. Here are 15 of the most astonishing such real-life applications ...
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Brian said:
The nano-hornet is freaky
Ideas to Toss: Virtual Community Watch. Preserving Earth (1)
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There was sometime back when was doing a rough math on how many live camera streams there are. There are some that are pointed towards the “habitat” of the Loch Ness Monster, there are enough live traffic camera, and plenty of them pointed towards a birds nest or so. And if you take the example of Justin.tv (which seems to be inspired by The Truman Show), even people are willing to play their part in ...
LinkNotes: Solar Islands (10)
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Giant discs covered in solar panels and launched at sea to capture the sun's rays and create electricity and hydrogen could be visible on the coastline of the United Arab Emirates in a number of years. The concept is being developed by the Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology, Inc (CSEM).CSEMClipped from: CSEM --> microtechnology: electronic: swiss center electronics: biochem: biochemical: biochemistry: bio: bioengineering: biomolecule: molecule: detection: detect: diagnostic: electrochem: electrochemical:microsystem: nanotechnology: optic: optical: pharmacetical: ...
New Tech Converts Heat into Electricity, Saves You Gas [Science] (5)
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Furukawa, a Tokyo-based tech company, has developed a thermoelectric conversion material that's said to be able to boost the fuel efficiency of cars by 2% by converting about 7% of exhaust heat into electricity. Unlike conventional thermoelectric conversion materials, which warm up as a whole when one side is exposed to heat, this new material generates energy via the difference in temperature between its two sides. Apparently, that makes it much more efficient. They're currently ...
Lamp Made Out of its Own Packaging [Package Lamp] (4)
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Reviewing gadgets on a normal basis, you really come to realize how incredible wasteful all the packaging is. Something is shipped to you in a box that's packed with styrofoam. Inside it, you find another box packed with more styrofoam and whatever good you ordered. But this Package Lamp is different. It has no extra packaging because it is the packaging. An egg-cartony, paper pulp box, the container is shaped like a lamp and thereby ...
Real-Life Oxygen Destroyer Kills Ocean Creatures [Mega Marine Biology] (1)
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If you've ever seen the original Godzilla movie from 1954, you know that the heroic scientists deploy a weapon called the "oxygen destroyer" (pictured) that sucks all oxygen from the water and suffocates the Big G. Now it turns out that weapon isn't as ridiculous as you thought: In fact, scientists have identified countless "oxygen dead zones" in the oceans created rapidly by chemicals and plants that suck air out of the water. Once oxygen ...
LEDs Magazine on the promise of the Light Emitting Diode (1)
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In the April 2008 issue of LEDs Magazine (yes, I just discovered this article — when did you catch it?), Noah Davis writes that “there are few good alternatives to the beam control provided by conventional lighting fixtures in the theatre.” And then he proceeds to explain it all to us — why it is the way it is, how conventional lighting works and doesn’t work, and why LEDs will help save the world. Davis ...
"Dead Zones" Multiplying Fast, Coastal Water Study Says (4)
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Holy Futuristic Automobiles, Batman (1)
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Ok...if they can make cars look like that (and not chow down on the environment to get from A to B), I'll give up my bike and start driving again, and stop complaining about how cars uglify the urban environment. I still want wider sidewalks, though. Walking will never go out of style.Which reminds me...Forgive the slightly vapid post, but the future is looking mighty sexy right about now...(Both found via Core77)
