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Ten Green Motorcycles Full On Fun, Low On Emissions – Ecofriend
An average motorcycle gets about double the mileage of even the most fuel efficient cars but the downside is that they emit about 15 times more pollution than an average four-wheeler. Ecofriendly motorcycles have been in vogue for quite some time now and are a big hit among environment lovers. If you are crazy about two-wheelers but at the same time are looking for the best environmentally benign products, then hit the break for a list of the 10 best ecofriendly motorcycles.
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GE appliances to connect to smart grid via Tendril | Green Tech – CNET News
Imagine a refrigerator smart enough to cut your electricity bills.
Smart-grid start-up Tendril and General Electric later this year will test a smart-grid system that will allow GE’s networked home appliances to take advantage of cheaper electricity rates, the companies announced Wednesday.
The joint development deal calls for GE to speak to Tendril’s smart-grid software in a range of GE appliances–dishwashers, washing machines, refrigerators, and water heaters–over Zigbee wireless networks.
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Zerocarbonista – Viva the next industrial revolution
Green Britain day comes to us courtesy of EDF. That’s Electricite de France to give them their full name. EDF is a French, state owned nuclear power company. They are also the world’s biggest corporate producer of nuclear waste, and one of it’s biggest traders and burners of coal – with a tiny tiny fleet of windmills (0.7% of their generation). And to promote this campaign they’ve ‘borrowed’ (as Fred Pearce gently puts it in this week’s Guardian) someone else’s logo – the green union jack. This flag symbolises two things, Green and British. EDF are of course neither.
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Mmm, beer … now with clean energy | Energy and Fuel
As if we needed any more reasons to love beer, along comes this one: it’s a promising source of clean energy.
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Secretive Russia-Burma mine could displace thousands
Russian and Italian engineering companies are reportedly working together to develop a massive iron ore mine that will “decimate†Mount Pinpet or “Pinetree Mountain†in the eastern Burmese state of Shan.
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About 49% of Americans believe the Earth is getting warmer because of the burning of fossil fuels and other human activity, the survey by the Pew Research Centre and the American Association for the Advancement of Science said. Some 36% attributed global warming to natural changes in the atmosphere and another 10% said there was no clear evidence that the earth was indeed undergoing climate change.
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Washington State To Get The World’s Largest PV Plant, Will Power 45,000 Homes – Ecofriend
A team of private investors have announced plans to develop a more conventional solar power plant that will be capable of generating 75MW of power, outshining the current world record holder in Spain, which generates about 60MW.
The solar photovoltaic plant, dubbed Teenaway Solar Reserve, is set to become the largest plant in its category when it is constructed on 400 acres of formerly-logged private property four miles north of Cle Elum, in Kittitas County, Washington
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Ashes cricketers could be caught out by climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk
t’s hard to think of a sport more vulnerable to such changes than cricket. After all, it’s a game in which subtle variations in atmospheric conditions can play a huge role in determining both the type of match played and the outcome.But what will happen to the pitches and playing conditions in Australia, for example, if extreme drought conditions persist and become an annual occurrence? What will happen to the game in England and Wales if our summers see more in the way of heatwaves and less frequent, but more torrential downpours, as the Met Office seems to believe likely?
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Global warming impacting Greenlanders’ daily lives – Yahoo! News
From his trawler that motors along the Nuuk fjord, fisherman Johannes Heilmann has watched helplessly in recent years as climate change takes its toll on Greenland.
Global warming is occurring twice as fast in the Arctic as in the rest of the world.
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US rewards for Filipino whistleblowers of polluting ship – Yahoo! News
Three Filipino crew members who reported their ship illegally dumping waste oil into the Gulf of Mexico have received financial rewards of up to 90,000 dollars each, the US embassy said Thursday.
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Solar power and the Sahara desert: The start of something big? | The Economist
IT IS an old idea. Build solar power stations in the Sahara desert and transport the electricity produced to Europe using high-voltage, direct-current (HVDC) cables. It is simple in theory, but hard in practice—and very, very costly. But it is a carbon-dioxide-free way of making a lot of electricity, and a collecting area the size of Austria could supply the world.
A meeting on July 13th might get the ball rolling
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Eco Cars: Teenager Mods Ford Escort To Run On Electricity – Ecofriend
17-year-old Andrew Loader wanted an electric vehicle not because of its low impact on the environment, but because he didn’t want to spend too much on gas.
The need turned Andrew into an automobile engineer, when he converted his clapped-out Ford Escort to run on electricity using some batteries, an old forklift motor and automobile engineering skills from the internet.
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GreenMonk news roundup 07/11/2009 http://bit.ly/rtxEk
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I’m curious about the intersection between Carbon Measurement and Carbon Credit Trading on the one hand, and outsourcing of hardware / services on the other – whether that be directly via hosting data and applications in external datacentres or the cloud or by directly replacing internal applications with external SAAS providers.
I can reliably measure my own Carbon production, based on power consumption and source of that power. Can Amazon (AWS) or Google (Docs or gmail) tell me what my share of their Carbon Production was ?
Depending on the proportion of my IT workload that goes throught the cloud, this could be an important metric of my ‘greenness’. Certainly, I would consider that it should be included in any calculations that determine whether a company has under used or over used their carbon credits.
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I’m curious about the intersection between Carbon Measurement and Carbon Credit Trading on the one hand, and outsourcing of hardware / services on the other – whether that be directly via hosting data and applications in external datacentres or the cloud or by directly replacing internal applications with external SAAS providers.
I can reliably measure my own Carbon production, based on power consumption and source of that power. Can Amazon (AWS) or Google (Docs or gmail) tell me what my share of their Carbon Production was ?
Depending on the proportion of my IT workload that goes throught the cloud, this could be an important metric of my ‘greenness’. Certainly, I would consider that it should be included in any calculations that determine whether a company has under used or over used their carbon credits.
This comment was originally posted on http://www.accmanpro.com/)“>AccMan
Excellent point Martin. To Tom’s original thought, he’d not seen any data centre information that makes any of this clear. We’re all early in this game so it’s hard to see how this will pan out. I’m guessing much will depend on legislation.
This comment was originally posted on http://www.accmanpro.com/)“>AccMan
Excellent point Martin. To Tom’s original thought, he’d not seen any data centre information that makes any of this clear. We’re all early in this game so it’s hard to see how this will pan out. I’m guessing much will depend on legislation.
This comment was originally posted on AccMan