I recently learned of an incredible project and I’d like to know what Celsias thinks of it. Here is a basic introduction taken from: http://www.thevenusproject.com/ The Venus Project advocates an alternative vision for a sustainable new world civilization unlike any social system that has gone before. Although this description is ...
Started by Red Keane last month, about Architecture, Clean Technologies, Energy Saving, Green energy, Solar
It's 10am, do you know where your electricity has been? Does your provider buy electricity from power plants using coal sourced from mountain top removal, MTR, operations. Coal is bad enough on it's own merits as a climate destroying fossil fuel but the "ecocide" of mountaintop removal is completely out ...
Started by C Robb W. last month, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Deforestation, Industry, Politics, Pollution, Protest
Using our tradmarked project delivery method called Total Project Management: Driven to the POWER of g, we continue to deliver buildings that are at least LEED Gold Certified below conventional budgets Northland Pines High School - Eagle River, WI -23% below the national average cost of all public high schools ...
Started by Pete Hoffman last month, about Air Quality, Architecture, Design, Economics, Education, Emissions, Energy Saving, Finance, Green energy, Industry, Recycling
According to Grist (http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/8/29/83614/5859) Palin: - Opposed a statewide ballot initiative to prohibit or restrict new mining operations that could affect salmon in the state's streams and rivers - Has pushed to build a natural-gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope - Got the state legislature to pass a bill to ...
Started by Leslie B. in August, about Coal & Oil, Environment & Wildlife, Politics
This is the topic of an Oxford-style debate on solving the world’s energy crisis at the Economist -http://www.economist.com/debate/index.cfm?action=hall&debate_id=11&sa_campaign=debateseries/debate11/spr/blog/tb13 The argument for solving our energy needs with today's technology is made by Joseph J. Romm, Senior Fellow at the Centre for American Progress and the argument for the need for technology ...
Started by Leslie B. in August, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Economics, Energy Saving, Industry, Politics
"Properly functioning markets allocate resources efficiently, but they cannot determine the sustainable scale; that can be achieved only by government policy." - Herman Daly Human beings are the strangest of creatures. We make observations about our surroundings or about our behaviors, these observations become cast into theory, and then these ...
Started by John V. in August, about Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Architecture, Consumerism, Economics, Energy Saving
I saw this question asked on another blog, and I must admit - I have no idea how many kwh's we use. I'm not even sure my metering provides this data. Do you know what your kwh per day usage is? How are you measuring this? What household items do ...
Started by Peter D. in August, about Energy Saving
One of the lecturers, Peter Harper, at my last module for my MSc stressed the importance of developing carbon capture and storage as a last ditch effort to mitigate anthropogenic climate change. Others discussed the looming need for planetary engineering proposals and a willingness to consider implementation of such schemes. ...
Started by C Robb W. in August, about Biofuels, Carbon Sequestration, Coal & Oil, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environmental Disasters
What are the necessary steps for me to convert my car to run on biodiesel? What are the prices, parts, and labor involved?
Started by Riley Smith in July, about Biofuels, Energy Saving, Transport
Here's another new invention to add to the pile: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=hydrogen-power-on-the-cheap We [have] figured out a way just using a glass of water at room temperature, under atmospheric pressure," Nocera says. "This thing [a thin film of cobalt and phosphate on an electrode] just churns away making [oxygen] from water. According ...
Started by Peter D. in August, about Clean Technologies, Energy Saving
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