“To find out whether San Francisco’s phenomenal recycling success was real, I asked San Francisco’s waste contractor if I could track one week’s worth of my own trash in real time… and so began my odyssey into a world of waste.”
Five basic questions to answer in order to systematically integrate sustainable energy solutions
For reasons of ensuring sustainable access to energy for the future and preventing environmental damage, we as a society need to change the way we use energy. This change involves both developing new technologies and introducing these technologies into everyday use in an intelligent, systematic way. Instinctively, we focus on developing new technologies perhaps because these are the most tangible actions in bringing about transformation. However, the systematic integration component is equally important if we want to be successful in our aims
EPEAT rating to rank TVs' eco-features
A consortium of manufacturers and retailers is working on an environmental rating for TVs that goes beyond just power consumption to include everything from packaging to amount of toxic material used.
The Nobel Laureate Symposium Series on Global Sustainability Urges Action on Climate
Participants called for a Great Transformation aimed at bring about technical, economic, political and cultural changes to meet the double challenge of environmental destabilization and persistent underdevelopment.
Why Environmental Understanding, or "Framing," Matters: An Evaluation of the EcoAmerica Summary Report
EcoAmerica is soon to make public a report on the framing of the environment called “Climate and Energy Truths: Our Common Future.”
Shell waves the green flag in race to build most fuel-efficient car
More than 200 teams from 29 countries battle for Eco-marathon prize where a gallon of petrol can last thousands of miles.
The Power of a Brazilian Wind
Offshore wind turbines offer huge potential as a renewable energy source in today’s world, but the number of offshore wind farms is surprisingly small. Here, three scientists look at the wind resources off the southeast coast of Brazil as a possible sight that could one day provide Brazil with clean, carbon-free electricity.
NASA Envisions "Clean Energy" From Algae Grown in Waste Water
Astronauts were inspired by their living quarters to create a process that produces clean biofuels.
Solar-Powered Irrigation System Unveiled At U.S. National Arboretum
The U.S. National Arboretum is “going green” with the installation of solar-powered drip irrigation system that will save electricity and water at the 446-acre facility operated by the Agricultural Research Service in Washington, DC.
Sniffing Out Geothermal Energy Resources from the Surface, Sky and Space
In Sniffing out Geothermal Energy Resources from the Surface, Sky and Space, energy writer Peter Fairley travels to Paris to do on-the-scene reporting about the progress of geothermal energy in France and elsewhere. Fairley, the editor of the energy web journal Carbon-Nation, shows that geothermal is enjoying a renaissance among experts in many parts of the world as an effective alternative to fossil fuels that also reduces CO2 emissions.