Monthly Archives: May 2010

Ostara Aims to Stave Off Peak Phosphorous.Forget peak oil. The next big crisis is peak phosphorous–a shortage of mined phosphorous for fertilizer. The problem is so bad that supply won’t be able to meet agricultural demand within the next 30 to 40 years. But a Robert F. Kennedy Jr.-backed startup called Ostara thinks it...
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The Electric Drive Vehicle Deployment Act of 2010, introduced in Congress this week, has a simple goal to electrify half of all cars and trucks on U.S. roads by 2030, and a basic strategy: focus the might of the federal government on a small number of pilot communities around the country, subsidizing the buildout...
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CSM -  An investigation has found that individuals and businesses who are feeding a $700 million global market in offsets are often buying vague promises instead of the reductions in greenhouse gases they expect. They are buying into projects that are never completed, or paying for ones that would have been done anyhow, the...
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Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide and is estimated to kill 5 million persons each year. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), if current trends continue, by 2030 tobacco use could cause 8 million deaths annually (1). WHO created World No Tobacco Day in 1987 to draw global attention...
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Some gave their all and some gave everything to protect our freedom…Thank you.
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Unstoppable energy consumption with no “change” in sight…  World marketed energy consumption grows 49 percent between 2007 and 2035, driven by economic growth in the developing nations of the world, according to the Reference case projection from the International Energy Outlook 2010 (IEO2010) released today by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). “Renewables are...
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In 2007, (before the economic collapse) nearly 13 million low-income persons paid more than half their monthly income for rent, lived in severely substandard housing, or both. In a report to Congress, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development found that these “worst case housing needs” grew significantly between 2001 and 2007. .....
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Jeff Kart, Tree Hugger – Getting some outdoor time is not only good for the soul, it’s probably good for the mind.  Research from The Sage Colleges in Troy, New York, suggests that exposure to a natural soil bacterium called Mycobacterium vaccae can increase learning behavior. Another reason to enjoy, and protect, the great...
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While Cellphones may not cancer… this does sound plausible. Telegraph, UK -  Britain has seen a 15 per cent decline in its bee population in the last two years Their disappearance has caused alarm throughout Europe and North America where campaigners have blamed agricultural pesticides, climate change and the advent of genetically modified crops...
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a study published in Environmental Science & Technology, researchers reported that harmful nitrosamines form from quaternary amines, which are found in many consumer products, and since pretreatment with ozone or chlorine does not reduce the amount of nitrosamines that form, many of these nitrosamines end up in drinking water, wastewater and recreational water. One...
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WashingtonTimes – The climate certainly has warmed considerably in the past 10,000 years (when the last Ice Age ended), but much less since 1850 (the end of the Little Ice Age). No one disputes these facts. But the climate has not warmed during the past decade, in spite of the steady rise in human-caused...
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S. 3372, A bill to modify the date on which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and applicable states may require permits for discharges on certain vessels  Under current law, permit requirements related to certain discharges from fishing vessels and nonrecreational vessels less than 79 feet in length will become effective on July...
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Photo: Japan Electric Vehicle Club The Daihatsu Mira EV Broke Its Own Record An electric car went 623.76 miles (1,003 kilometers) on one charge, and on top of that it was a conversion done by the Tokyo-based Japan Electric Vehicle Club (link in Japanese), a group of EV enthusiasts. If they can do it,...
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WDNR - Eight straight years of drought in northern Wisconsin is causing many people to ask what is happening to the fish, wildlife and recreation dependent on water. A 12-month drought cumulative effects scale — known as the Palmer Drought Index (exit DNR) — shows below average precipitation again for 2010. The May index...
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On April 2, 2010, Senator Lautenberg, introduced The Safe Chemicals Act of 2010 bill to Congress, (developed by EPA’s Lisa Jackson, Chairman Waxman, Senator Boxer, Congressman Rush and others) which is slated to be passed without major modifications. This bill represents yet another burden placed on US organizations by Federal agencies who are clearly motivated...
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“There are an awful lot of people who think we have the best medical system in the world,” said Dr. Christopher Murray, who directs the institute and is an author of the study. “The data is so contrary to that.”Singapore, the country with the lowest child mortality rate in the world at 2.5 deaths...
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PopSci: Sweaty Fuel Plant Sweating biofuels for a greener future Joule Unlimited The tiny single-cell plants eat, reproduce, and then sweat fuel PopSci: Considering the debate over how corn-derived ethanol competes with growing corn to support livestock and humans, this approach sounds a good deal more promising. It’s also an intriguingly different approach from...
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EarlyWarning Oil on rebound The rate of recovery I currently estimate at 2.9 mbd/year, with a 90% confidence interval of mbd/yr (using the same approach as in previous months).  It still appears to me that the most likely outcome is that this recovery will continue and exceed the 2008 peak of liquid...
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…Just mention subsidies and most people’s eyes glaze over. But government subsidies transfer hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to large farmers who grow just a few types of crops, creating some of the country’s least deserving welfare recipients. Subsidies set price minimums and ensure that corn, soy, wheat, and rice producers get paid...
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NaxNews: “The thing that comes out from the exhaust is the same that we breathe,” said design student Edwin Yi Yuan, referring to the Green Speed Air motorcycle, a concept bike intended to run on compressed air. A rotary air engine fed by high-pressure air tanks means no gas, no combustion, no exhaust–and no...
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Want nature to supply you with 130-150 degree hot water? shows you how to get just that by building a compost heap that heats water. Finding himself the proud owner of a dump truck of green wood chips went about building his own version of Jean Pain’s thermal compost pile. The idea...
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The CMT 380X Blackbird is one wicked hybrid car! Looking like it just rolled off the set of the next Batman film, the Blackbird is the brainchild of Electronic Arts Chief Creative Director . Starting from a kit car base — the Factory Five Racing GTM chassis — created a unique 230...
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The U.S. Census Bureau reported today that the dependency ratio, or the number of people 65 and older to every 100 people of traditional working ages, is projected to climb rapidly from 22 in 2010 to 35 in 2030. This time period coincides with the time when baby boomers are moving into the 65...
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PopSci -  the largest completed analysis to date of brain tumor (glioma and meningioma) risk in relation to mobile phone use concludes: “Overall, no increase in risk of either glioma or meningioma was observed in association with use of mobile phones.  (Filed under “I told you so..” This result is in line with the...
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PopSci An underwater energy extractor that doesn’t harm sea life ECO-Auger John B. Carnett Today’s featured Invention Award winner is the ECO-Auger, which accesses tidal energy without harming marine life. Anderson had used a revolving horizontal corkscrew to feed plastic to machines in his New Jersey factory and knew that ancient Egyptian farmers used...
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Are we really choosing to continue to invest in impractical, hightech and financially implausible solutions to our economic and energy crisis while we can create millions of jobs, save billions of dollars, and be energy independent IF we want to…. while www.architecture2030.org may not give all the best answers, they do produce inarguable math...
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Mens health’s “Harmful Drinks in America” is a series of photos of sugary beverages next to their caloric equivalent in junk food.  Here’s a 280 calorie Rockstar Energy Drink alongside a mountain of 6 Krispy Kreme donuts. Of course, that’s nothing compared to the 345 calorie Arizona Kiwi Strawberry drink (equivalent to 7 bowls...
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Sixty-two percent of Americans think that the country should reduce spending in order to cut the deficit.  What do they think we should cut?  Nothing that can make a dent…. Kevin Drum at Mother Jones reminds us that foreign aid is about one percent of the U.S. budget. …there were only four areas...
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This callous disregard for the First Amendment represents a fundamental threat the very fabric of the country and is even more alarming considering the position of Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan with regard to free speech. During the Citizens United vs. FEC case, Kagan’s office argued that the government can ban books and...
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GizMag: A wind turbine that uses boundary layers instead of blades to generate power has been patented by Solar Aero, a New Hampshire based not-for-profit scientific research organization. Modeled on the 1913 Tesla steam turbine, the Fuller turbine is virtually silent and completely enclosed, which avoids many of the drawbacks of bladed turbines such...
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TreeHugger: Lester Walker’s 1981 classic American Shelter, (still in print!) American Shelter I do not mean this as any criticism of Blu Homes; I think they deserve praise. If modern prefab is going to catch on it has to be affordable, and the way to do that is to maximize the efficiency. There is...
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Photo via cytech Intel has given a lot of lip service to reducing the carbon footprint of the IT industry. Thankfully, the company is walking the walk as well – and taking big strides. The progress includes cutting its overall carbon footprint by 24% in 2009, and trimming its energy use by 9% during...
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I posted about a year ago about this… and we are STILL waiting.  Last year PR said we would see it soon and for “$4,500″ Now it’s later and $6,500 – Whats the deal? EarthAlt Honeywell Windtronics’ compact for 25 percent household’s energy needs with only 2 miles per hour of wind speeds, unveiled...
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CNN - Children exposed to higher levels of a type of pesticide found in trace amounts on commercially grown fruit and vegetables are more likely to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder than children with less exposure, a nationwide study suggests. Organophosphates are “designed” to have toxic effects on the nervous system, says the lead...
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The consequences or our digital desires…. Undercover report from Apple’s nightmare factory in China Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly sent 20-year-old reporter Liu Zhi Yi undercover in Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, China. For 28 days, he experienced dreadful conditions that the factory’s 400,000 employees endure, churning out iPods, iPads, and iPhones for Apple nonstop. Please...
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A bill that would have applied green building standards to public projects died Wednesday when Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed the proposal. State Rep. Louis Molepske Jr., D-Stevens Point, chided members of Doyle’s administration for not raising concerns about the bill while the Legislature was in session this year. Molepske was an author of the...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on May 13 that its final Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule will require only the largest new and modified sources of greenhouse gases to control emissions. During the first half of 2011, the rule limits the application of prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) requirements to sources that already must...
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Several reports are showing that the clean energy sector remained strong globally in 2009 and during the first quarter of 2010. Bloomberg New Energy Finance found that investments in clean energy increased 31% in the first quarter of 2010 over the same period in 2009. Read full at EERE
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Researchers at Delft University of Technology have discovered a type of bacteria called Anammox that can directly destroy the ammonium into nitrogen in sewage treatment processes. The process can also generate up to 24Wh to serve sustainable sewage treatment plants. As we all know that the sewage treatment process typically uses a variety of...
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“The next best thing” - industrial design students at of the University of Illinois are boasting that it can make a Electronic Waste  ‘algae bioreactor’  that produces algae for Biofuel that “could replace U.S. petroleum demand with biodiesel.” Waste Electronic parts serve as a reservoir to cultivate algae that can be used to make...
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MotherJones - What unites the Vatican, lefties, conservatives, environmentalists, and scientists in a conspiracy of silence? Population. “Overpopulation, combined with overconsumption, is the elephant in the room,” says Paul Ehrlich, 42 years after he wrote his controversial book, The Population Bomb. “We don’t talk about overpopulation because of real fears from the past—of racism,...
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M. Simon at IEC Fusion Technology The Italians and Russians are working on a cheaper version of ITER. Russia and Italy have entered into an agreement to build a new fusion reactor outside Moscow that could become the first such reactor to achieve ignition, the point where a fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining instead of...
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From Next Big Future Pathway Genomics with have genetic testing kits selling at Walgreens Pharmacy. Walgreen will start offering the kits in about 6000 stores (It will not be available in New York because of a state law) * Walgreen plans to offer Pathway’s Insight Saliva Collection Kit at retail from $20 to $30....
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WDNR – With each breath of air, Wisconsin residents have good reason to celebrate the accomplishments of 40 years of cleaner air, according to state environmental officials. May is Clean Air Month and 2010 is the 40th anniversary of the landmark Clean Air Act of 1970. “We breathe cleaner air today because of 40...
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If the average person was told of the massive toll that prescription drugs take on their liver, kidneys and cardiovascular system… they would take ALL precautions first and use drugs as only a LAST resort. It is why this will be the first generation outlived by their parents. Image from the GOOD  “Drugged Culture”...
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Boing2 A capsule summary of the energy policies of the last 8 US presidents from Michael Milken’s presentation at the global conference on “America’s Energy Future.” * In 1974 with 36.1% of oil from foreign sources, President Richard Nixon said, “At the end of this decade, in the year 1980, the United States will...
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Boing2 - a report that a particularly intense burst of natural gas caused the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to be shut down over fears of an explosion “just weeks before a similar release succeeded in destroying and sinking the platform and sent millions of gallons of oil on a collision course with Louisiana and...
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Bonig2 – Crazy, but it has been done: ” the Soviet Union, a major oil exporter, used this method five times to deal with petrocalamities. The first happened in Uzbekistan, on September 30, 1966 with a blast 1.5 times the strength of the Hiroshima bomb and at a depth of 1.5 kilometers. KP also...
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While the US oil spill is no Chernobyl, it is still toxic: biologist“There will be no Chernobyl in the Mississippi Delta,” Gulf Coast Research Laboratory marine biologist Joe Griffitt told AFP Friday, referring to the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine that killed at least 4,000 people and contaminated over two million. “But my concern...
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The new regulatory agenda for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will result in new worker protections against at most a small handful of health hazards by the end of the presidential term, leaving untouched the absence of standards for thousands of chemicals and hundreds of existing standards that are much weaker...
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The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) released a new report today, Total Cost of Fire in the United States, which finds that in 2007, after adjusting for inflation, the core total cost of fire has increased by 86 percent since 1980. The complete total cost of fire for 2007 is estimated at $347 billion,...
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Population the 800lb gorilla…  “Estimating Impacts of Population Growth on Ecosystem Services for the Community of Albemarle County and Charlottesville, VA,” produced by Advocates for Sustainable Albemarle Population, as far is known, is the first such study ever undertaken to examine the effects of a community’s projected growth on its ecosystem services, and to...
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There are just so many examples of the principle of there really being no ‘away’ when it comes to plastic waste.The great state- and small country-sized floating plastic garbage patches in the Pacific and Atlantic are gaining publicity, but here’s another example. In this video from the Plastic Pollution Coalition, globetrotting surfing legends Chris...
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Next100 – Cheaper Way to Split WaterThe current tech to make H2 is immensely expensive to ever dream of replacing current energy sources… and while finding a cheaper way to make H2 will help its future, cheaper electrolysis could also be an ideal companion to a big wind farm that produces lots of energy...
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Inhabitat - Maybe Gross, but diffidently genius! Wearing adult diapers just got a whole lot cooler — a Japanese company called Super Faith has developed a miraculous system that turns used diapers into a clean fuel source in about 24 hours. The elderly care industry in Japan is growing and along with it the...
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Next100: As China goes, so goes the planet Earth. …China’s environmental course will make or break global efforts to coordinate an effective means of controlling greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Bottom line: it’s easy to sound virtuous in a survey. What counts is where you put your money. The world is waiting to...
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If there were an easier available place to find new oil than a mile beneath the sea, they’d be drilling there. - Get used to it, baby.  Related Quote :Oil Spill Much Worse Than We’ve Been Told: “Official Estimates for the Flow of Oil … May be Just a Drop in the Bucket”… lead...
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Consumerist Researchers from the University of Essex have found that as little as 5 minutes outside can improve your self esteem and mood, say Reuters. The study concluded that 5 minutes in a park was beneficial. They found that the greatest health changes occurred in the young and the mentally ill, although people of...
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While my MOM is #1  the U.S. ranked No. 28 in the survey.   GreenChange The rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. (one in 4,800), as well as the country's less generous maternity leave policies, were responsible for the low ranking.   A U.S. woman is more than five times more likely to...
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Here is a table from my friends at Variant Perception in London, from data from The Economist. Notice that France is over 8%. Germany is almost 6%. Wow.  I reproduced graphs that projected interest-rate payments as a percentage of GDP rising rather dramatically over the next 30 years, to levels that, quite frankly, cannot...
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Chart from CDC says enough...I think it’s fun to look at the anti social trend chart trend next to this one. Anyone else see a correlation?
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Alan Caplan May be wrong about oil, but is he right about renewables? Caplan – Some believe we’ve found all the world’s oil reserves already…Others point to a trillion barrels of the sticky stuff, known to be sitting under the oilsands right here in Alberta plus an estimated several trillion barrels more not yet...
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$75 million: The liability cap for BP for the Gulf oil spill, for damages such as lost wages and economic suffering $5.6 billion: BP’s first-quarter profits, a 135 percent increase over the first quarter of 2009 OIL Quote of the Week  Gulf spill will “forever” change drilling-BP exec Related: Gulf incident prompts policy-change efforts  ...
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…according to a new report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). “Sadly, new data doesn’t point to new results — atrazine can be found everywhere we look,” said Jennifer Sass, PhD, NRDC Senior Scientist and an author of the report.“   Banned by the European Union, atrazine is the most commonly...
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Radioactive water that leaked from the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant has now reached a major underground aquifer, at concentrations 50 times higher than those allowed by law, that supplies drinking water to much of southern New Jersey, the state’s environmental chief said Friday. Please read more at GreenChange   The radioactive water leaks...
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THIS IS A MUST READ - .I.E gov, edu and public safety officials who read this blog. The 240-page report by the President’s Cancer Panel is the first to focus on environmental causes of cancer. The panel, created by an act of Congress in 1971, is charged with monitoring the multi-billion-dollar National Cancer Program...
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PopSci our infrastructures are far better tuned for the hydrocarbon fuels of the past century than the renewables of the next. So why don’t we just make fuels that work in our existing technology from renewable energy? A German-Austrian research collaboration has engineered a means to turn electricity from wind a solar resources into...
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Electric cars haven’t killed the engine as we know it, yet. In fact, the century-old technology is getting stronger every year With all the focus on hybrids and electric cars, you might assume that the internal combustion (IC) engine was headed for extinction. Yet more than 99 percent of the world’s new cars still...
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USDA Algal blooms that feed on nutrient-rich manure and fertilizer runoff can deplete oxygen in the water when they die, creating inhospitable dead zones — but the same green scum might also serve as a preventive solution upstream. A microbiologist with the U.S. Agricultural Research Service used algae to recover almost 100 percent of...
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Afrigadget is a great web site for low tech solutions that you can use off the grid.  Let’s face it, there is not much high tech in Africa outside the big cities. So ‘scuse me for mentioning it but  Afrigadget’s latest story  has come up with a neat way of turning chicken sh1t into...
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40 Years in the making…. at some point we have to understand these are three wars we’ll never win…
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Peugeot BB1 Concept car is an electric car born from a mix and match of a scooter & a car. Designed to tackle all issues of the modern world faced by people on a daily basis in order to offer maximum versatility…More photos & info after the jump.
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Environmental protection and traffic flow could emerge as conflicting priorities with a wetland in the way of a Waukesha bypass.“They really need the highway to go in,” said David Bahl, plant manager at Weldall Mfg. Inc. and a member of the planning group. “But my first concern is doing it without destroying the wetlands.”...
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The Fuller Wind Turbine that is bladeless wind turbine developed by Solar Aero has been patented by a company in New Hampshire. Fuller Wind Turbine will replace the weakness of bladed wind turbines such as noise, radar interference, visual pollution and wildlife injuries but still produce high efficiency. Actually the Fuller Wind Turbine is...
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Welcome to hell ― or Centralia, Pennsylvania, where the coal mine started to burn underground in 1962. The mine fire is still burning today beneath a ghost town. The Post Office even revoked Centralia’s zip code. Most of the buildings were lost to fires or acts of nature. In 2010, only five homes remain....
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Special interest lobbying, policies that favor new construction over repairs, and the appeal of ribbon-cuttings push America to build new highways and bridges faster than it keeps up older ones. The result? A crumbling infrastructure, with 45 percent of the nation’s roads – 80 percent in metropolitan areas – in “less than good” condition...
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The ECHO interactive site provides basic information about smaller Clean Water Act direct dischargers (known as “non-majors”). For those users who are using screen readers or prefer the raw data, this page is also available in HTML Format, 2008 ANCR (for smaller permittees)(PDF) (15pp, 141KB, About PDF), or as a Data Table. Information included...
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Historic cuts to teachers & libraries ohh my…
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Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Affect Employment, Economic Brief The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has analyzed the research on the effects that policies to reduce green house gases would have on employment and concluded that total employment during the next few decades would decline with such policies. Effects on Total Employment By...
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S. 624,  Water for the World Act of 2009 Cost estimate…would set a target of enabling first-time access to improved water supply and sanitation, on a sustainable basis, for 100 million people in high-priority countries over six years. CBO assumes that each year over the 2011-2016 period the Congress would appropriate the amounts necessary...
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National Center for Policy Analysis A big supporter of green jobs, President Obama has regularly touted legislation containing provisions to subsidize green job creation.  Unfortunately, there is growing evidence that government support of green industries will cost more jobs than it creates, according to a new analysis by the National Center for Policy Analysis.…President Obama...
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MIT researchers are exploring a new technology funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the National Science Foundation, which they call a thermopower wave, that may convert chemical energy to fuel cells for micro-machines, sensors and emergency communication beacons. “We envision these thermopower wave devices enabling a new generation of energy...
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In 2009, the United States saw their largest absolute and percentage decline (405 million metric tons or 7.0 percent) in energy-related emissions since the start of U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) comprehensive record of annual energy data that begins in 1949 “The large decline in emissions was driven by the economic downturn, combined with...
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According to McAfee and ICF International, annual spam energy use totals 33 billion kilowatt-hours (KWh). That’s equivalent to the electricity used in 2.4 million homes in the United States, with the same GHG emissions as 3.1 million passenger cars using two billion United States gallons of gasoline. Read the full post at Matter Network....
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U.S. farmers are dealing with a superweed epidemic, and it’s not as groovy as it sounds on first read. Ubiquitous use of the weed killer Roundup over time has spawned herbicide-resistant superweeds , much as heavy use of antibiotics over past decades has bred drug-resistant germs and bacteria.  Roundup — which was created by...
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DailyReporter: Company executives, project managers and safety directors could face up to 20 years in prison for work site accidents… if a federal bill becomes law. The Protecting America’s Workers Act, introduced by Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., would let the Occupational Safety and Health Administration enforce stiffer penalties for willful safety violations that result...
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Most people who are trying to change the world stick to one area, for example they might either work to preserve biodiversity in rainforests or do social justice with poor farmers. But Dr. Ivette Perfecto was never satisfied with having to choose between helping people or preserving nature. Professor of Ecology and Natural Resources...
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(WhooHoo The Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Agriculture  announced a new interagency agreement promoting renewable energy generation and slashing greenhouse gas emissions from livestock operations.  The agreement expands the work of the AgStar program, a joint EPA-USDA effort that helps livestock producers reduce methane emissions from their operations. “We want to seize...
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 the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is releasing 15 years of data providing details of workplace exposure to toxic chemicals. The data is comprised of measurements taken by OSHA compliance officers during the course of inspections. It includes exposure levels to hazardous chemicals including asbestos, benzene, beryllium, cadmium, lead, nickel, silica,...
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Senior Safety Compliance ManagerThe office is located in Sheboygan County. Approximately 50% travel,usually back in the office by 5PM. The job will take the candidate statewide to complete project-related work. Salary range is $55,000 to $85,000 per year. Minimum Requirements of Employer: Education: Bachelors Degree Require in Occupational Health & Safety or a related...
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Ouch… “Fortunately, experience has taught me that the market can remain irrational longer than I can remain solvent. So I’ll just watch the predictable train wreck from the sidelines.” – AltEnergyStocks I haven’t seen so many finely sculpted curves and unspoken assumptions since the tax shelter forecasts of the early-80s. The only clear message...
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Tony Hayward, chief executive officer of BP, about the effect of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on the company’s efforts to rehabilitate its image after the 2005 Texas City refinery explosion and a 2006 pipeline leak in AlaskaNew York Times: VIA Cal-OSHA Comment: I have met 100′s of EHS professionals...
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Piezo Shower is a very creative implementation of piezoelectric technology that is being developed by the Mexico, Finland and Germany designers. A shower system that utilizes the flow of water itself to produce electricity to heat the water. Piezo Shower consists of tubing embedded with a circuit of piezoelectric nano-wires. The piezoelectricity and fibers...
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Are we five or ten years off? Renewable and sustainable energy may be the only thing that can save Armenia’s future, yet they are moving towards a death blow of Nuclear… Cold facts fuel Armenia’s future … Its aging nuclear reactor, is due to be decommissioned in 2016.“The number one problem for us in...
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Science Daily – Each year the world produces about 130 million kilo of ethene, the most important raw material for plastics. This gigantic industry is currently dependent on crude oil. And that is running out. Dutch researcher Tymen Tiemersma might have found a solution for this problem. With his new reactor we can produce...
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Jeff Vail  Details benefits of projects like PlanG. With clear concise vision that we can reduce energy consumption and not only prosper but also dramatically improve the quality and quantity of our lives.  Jeff Vail – outlines a number of topics for discussion. All of them relate to the potential to change our social,...
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Mongabay News Human hair offers eco-friendly way to battle Gulf oil spill and Hair salons enlisted in eco-friendly approach to Gulf oil spill clean-up Also see Mongabay’s wrap up of The Oily History of Offshore Operations: From Venezuela to the Gulf
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