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The escalating and inelastic demand for energy to fuel economic activities exerts pressures on its limited supply. The skyrocketing prices of petroleum products results in the depletion of non renewable energy sources and the continued investigation and use of renewable and Innovation results. Environmentalists have warned that the bio fuel ... keep reading
Written by Naseem Sheikh this week, about Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Industry & Business
After smart tech takes over the home and the car, gadget gardening looks like it could be the next frontier. This new gardening prototype is an interactive algae farm, that hosts micro and macro-algal organisms as well as bioluminescent bacteria. Designed to engage notions of urban renewable energy and agriculture ... keep reading
Written by Emma Hutchings/ PSFK this month, about Architecture, Art & Culture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Lifestyle & Behavior
Scientists have developed and implanted into a living insect — the False Death's Head Cockroach — a miniature fuel cell that converts naturally occurring sugar in the insect and oxygen from the air into electricity. They term it an advance toward a source of electricity that could, in principle, be collected ... keep reading
Written by Celsias this month, about Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Design, Education
Protecting the land of highest priority for biodiversity conservation also delivers significant, life-sustaining services and income to the world’s most impoverished people, according to a new study published this month in the journal, BioScience. Yet conservation efforts and poverty alleviation efforts are both at risk of failing, since this ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Children and Families, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Lifestyle & Behavior
Kristin Shrader-Frechette of the University of Notre Dame is rigorous in the presentation of her argument in What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power. In recent times a number of leading environmentalists have concluded nuclear power has to be employed to enable the transition away ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Art & Culture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading
The Earth’s temperature is rising. We can argue about whether it is a short-term or long-term trend, or whether it is natural variation or man-induced, but it is warming. But now it’s our duty to pay something to cure our mother earth. A normal person helps it by ... keep reading
Written by Naseem Sheikh in December 2011, about Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape
Canada has announced its intention to withdraw from the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), sandbagging the other signatories to the convention. The Kyoto protocol, initially adopted in Kyoto, Japan in 1997, was designed to combat global warming with the agreement allowing countries like China and India take voluntary ... keep reading
Written by John C.K. Daly in December 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Art & Culture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy
The U.S. biofuel industry has long been stymied by the lack of USDA federal crop insurance, leaving only the most adventurous farmers willing to plant renewable energy crops. Biofuel sources currently under development include algae, jatropha and camelina. Of the three, camelina is increasingly emerging as the frontrunner in ... keep reading
Written by John C.K. Daly in December 2011, about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Food, Industry & Business, Politics & Government
Within discussions on sustainable transportation, high speed light rails and electric vehicles are the sexy topic of choice. Buses generally are seen as necessary components of public transit, especially for lower income families, but are often viewed as dirty and visually unattractive. Their noise, excessive emissions, or in the case ... keep reading
Written by Riley Smith in December 2011, about Architecture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Coal & Oil, Design, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Energy Saving, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Transport, Travel (1 comment)
The U.S. Navy pumped 20,000 gallons of algae-based fuel into a destroyer ship and launched its biggest biofuel test yet last week. It was a 20 hour trip along the California coast. Next year the US Navy is planning to unveil a small carrier strike group of small ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in November 2011, about Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Economics, Industry & Business, Transport, War
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