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How Much Energy Goes Into Making a Bottle of Water?
Researchers have calculated that the energy required to produce bottled water is up to 2,000 times more than the energy required to produce tap water.
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Obama expected to kill key Bush EPA program
The Obama administration intends to close an EPA program heavily promoted by the Bush Administration that rewards voluntary pollution controls by hundreds of corporations with reduced environmental inspections and less stringent regulation, according to EPA sources and internal emails.
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Even without the overwhelming environmental case against airport expansion, the economic case is crumbling too
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IBM and the Marine Institute Ireland have completed the SmartBay pilot information system to monitor wave conditions, marine life and pollution levels in and around Galway Bay. This real-time advanced analytics pilot is turning mountains of data into intelligence, paving the way for smarter environmental management and development of the bay.
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ReGeneration – Real Insight: The world’s most affordable hybrid…from Honda
The cost of entry to Hybrid-land (next to Fuelcellandia) just got a whole lot cheaper. Beginning March 24, the 2010 Honda Insight will be on sale, with the entry-level LX model selling for $19,800. That makes it the lowest-priced hybrid on U.S. roads.
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Scientists at IBM Research, together with collaborators from Central Glass, KACST and the University of Texas, Austin have created a new membrane that filters out salts as well as potentially harmful toxins in water such as arsenic while using less energy than other forms of water purification.
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Monbiot.com » A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere are saying the same thing: it’s over. The years in which more than two degrees of global warming could have been prevented have passed, the opportunities squandered by denial and delay. On current trajectories we’ll be lucky to get away with four degrees. Mitigation (limiting greenhouse gas pollution) has failed; now we must adapt to what nature sends our way. If we can.
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Obama: It’s Not About the “F***ing” Light Bulbs! : TreeHugger
Obama is sick and tired of having to save the planet by switching to energy-efficient bulbs. During the primaries, Newsweek overheard a very unscripted Obama talking about the debates:
I don’t consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, ‘You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.’ So when Brian Williams is asking me about what’s a personal thing that you’ve done [that's green], and I say, you know, ‘Well, I planted a bunch of trees.’ And he says, ‘I’m talking about personal.’ What I’m thinking in my head is, ‘Well, the truth is, Brian, we can’t solve global warming because I f—ing changed light bulbs in my house. It’s because of something collective’.
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Mr. Raftery,
I have found that sometimes Green as in bottom-line dollar will get attention where rational, environmental sometimes fails.
Regarding the Bottled Water post, some decision-makersmay not be compelled by the obvious wasted energy (and landfill pollution, etc) to change, but when bottom-line dollar savings are presented, the constraint dissolves.
At my business location, our Green Team provided cost of cleansed tap cost ($200/month) vs bottled water cost ($5000/month). What was not possible previously was done. We switched back to cleansed tap water saving our company approximately $50,000 per year.
Each victory such as above feeds the next. Strive and things will happen.
Thank you for your work.
Best Regards,
Wayne Olson