Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the monthly archives:
Flush hour: Oslo to run buses powered by biomethane from human sewage | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Free, friendly and non-fossil – biomethane from human waste will soon power public transport in the capital city
tags: oslo, human waste, biomethane
NASA Mission to Help Unravel Key Carbon, Climate Mysteries
NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide is in [...]
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Analysis shows exposure to ash from TVA spill could have ’severe health implications’
A report by Duke University scientists who analyzed water and ash samples from last month’s coal sludge spill in eastern Tennessee concludes that “exposure to radium- and arsenic-containing particulates in the ash could have severe health implications†in the affected areas.
tags: coal, coal [...]
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Brent Crude price Aug 08 – Jan 09
Chart generated by thisismoney.co.uk
Posts on The Oil Drum and iStockAnalyst in the last couple of days point out something interesting.
From The Oil Drum’s post:
Nobuo Tanaka, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today…
Oil at near $40 a barrel has slowed investment in oil projects, he [...]
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Co-op bans eight pesticides after worldwide beehive collapse | Environment | guardian.co.uk
First UK supermarket chain – and Britain’s biggest farmer – to prohibit chemicals implicated in the death of over one-third of British bees
tags: bee, co-op, pesticides
Better Place || Denmark
Better Place Denmark closed approximately €103 million Euro (770 million Danish Kroner) in equity and convertible [...]
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As mentioned previously, buildings account for 38% of CO2 emissions in the United States, buildings consume 70% of the electricity load in the U.S and CO2 emissions from buildings are projected to grow faster than any other sector over the next 25 years.
Cisco has decided to tackle this problem, by turning its networking infrastructure kit [...]
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More firms pay attention to social responsibility — china.org.cn
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is fast becoming a buzzword in China’s business circles, and yesterday, research financed by Oxfam, Hong Kong published a review of China’s CSR practice entitled A Journey to Discover Values: Study of Sustainability Reporting in China.
tags: china, csr, corporate social responsibility
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Palm oil may be single most immediate threat to the greatest number of species
Efforts to slow the rapid expansion of oil palm plantations at the expense of natural forests across Southeast Asia are being hindered by industry-sponsored disinformation campaigns, argue scientists writing in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. The authors, Lian Pin Koh [...]
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The Energy Roadmap – Austin based Graphene Energy raises $500K for Ultracapacitors
Austin, Texas based Graphene Energy has raised $500,000 to expand its vision of bringing graphene-based ultracapacitors to market. Capacitors are a class of energy storage devices that hold physical charges of electricity.
tags: graphene, graphene energy, capacitors, ultra capacitors
Will Green Enterprises Survive the Economic [...]
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