Eco minded habitat

Per press release, edited slightly:Mesa Power LLP, a company created by T. Boone Pickens, has placed an order with General Electric to purchase 667, 1.5 megawatt wind turbines for the worlds largest wind farm, capable of generating 1,000 megawatts, nameplate, of electricity, enough to power more ...

Per Fluor Corporation press release:Fluor Corporation, Dallas, TX, (NYSE: FLR) announced Wednesday that it has signed a contract with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) to design and construct the 500 megawatt (MW) Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm. The venture is the world's largest offshore w ...

Per DuPont press release:DuPont (NYSE: DD) announced that it will soon begin construction on a research center in Hong Kong and a manufacturing facility in Shenzhen to support the rapidly growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy industry. . . . DuPont expects growth in the photovoltaic market to.. ...

Using SUNRGI's propriety technology it is possible to produce large amounts of electricity from solar radiation at a wholesale price of US $0.05 / kWh is the lead headline on SUNGRI's website. The system is called Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics ™ or XCPV™. XCPV efficiently concentrates sunlig ...

General Motors Corp. and Mascoma Corp. today announced a strategic relationship to develop cellulosic ethanol focused on Mascoma's single-step biochemical conversion of non-grain biomass into low-carbon alternative fuels to help address increasing energy demand. Mascoma's single-step... [[ ...

Looking for an eco-friendly end to your life?  Forget a pine coffin, weave your own final resting place from willows.  UK based Musgrove Willows is offering a course where you weave your own coffin, which doubles as a “blanket box” while you wait to die.  Except for the fact I want t ...

When my daughter started preschool last year, my life as a craft collector began. From rock monsters to paper plate people, our family grew by the day. While I always welcomed the creative creatures and inventions into our home, I was disappointed that many of them were adorned with things that ...

I feel the consumerism of back to school season like a stiff wind in my face. I’m sending my oldest off to preschool, and after 3 years of not caring what she is wearing except for holidays and birthdays, forgetting to brush her hair for days on end, and rarely buying things new for her, ...

Add another contender to the alternative aviation fuel race: Swift Enterprises. The company, which is based in Indiana, has developed a renewable jet fuel made from landfill waste, sorghum, algae, woodchips, and other feedstocks. Swift’s biofuel currently costs $60 per gallon to produce, ...

Honestly, “natural” seems to be about a common a word as “green” these days and hands up who besides me is getting tired of the all the rhetoric? Being a natural brand should mean something and that’s exactly the position of Alima Pure. Not content with being &#8216 ...

A new type of architecture is gaining in popularity, thanks to visionaries such as architect Vincent Callebaut that blend design and technology to create a new definition for the term “green building”. Callebaut’s latest project uses green technologies and systems that are more than just example ...

A new kind of waste treatment system has been developed by Viridis Waste Control LLC, that holds the potential to improve water quality, reduce landfill usage, and to provide a large supply of renewable fuel. The process is called Septage Bioreactor Landfill technology, and it does something tha ...

Earlier this week online giant Amazon.com released a digital reader called the Kindle, a device that has great potential to revolutionize the way we read. While ebook readers aren’t new, Amazon’s offering brings several new features to the table. Chief among the green features of thi ...

Scientists at the University of Manchester have conducted a study looking at the effect global warming will have on our major cities, and say a modest increase in the number of urban parks and street trees could offset decades of predicted temperature rises. The study has calculated that a mere ...

Jerry Woodall, an engineer from Purdue University, has developed a method that uses an aluminum alloy to extract hydrogen from water on contact. This process eliminates the need to transport or store hydrogen gas, 2 things that have been major obstacles to achieving the much anticipated hydrogen ...

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According to Shoppers' Guide to Pesticides in Produce (by Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization that advocates for policies that protect global and individual health), there are twelve foods (out of the 43 different fruit and vegetable categories) had the lowest pesticide load wh ...

Allergies are year-round nuisances and if you’re one of the nearly 40 million people who will sneeze and sniffle their way through the next few months, here are a few simple home hints to help keep sneezes at bay: 1. Keep the house cool and dry to reduce the presence of dust mites and mo ...

All real chocolate is made from cacao and eaten in its pure raw form is extremely rich with anti-oxidants and magnesium. Cacao is a natural source of antioxidants - polyphenols, catechin, epicatechin and gallic acid. These antioxidants are essential to deneutralize free radicals and help to prov ...

Garlic has its reputation for its strong taste and aroma and it should be one food that you should be eating every day. Garlic has antibacterial, antiviral and anti-fungal properties and clearly, garlic can give you optimal health benefits when eaten fresh. Here is why:

Within the last couple months, The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. and Vornado/Charles E. Smith released their shiny new design for what could be Washington D.C.'s first LEED Platinum office...

How To: Demystifying residential wind power. Businesses find gold in green design. Taking it easy on the planet with eco-rentals. Is prefab housing ready for the primetime? Boston's biggest property...

We don't really talk about small gadgetry and knickknacks on this website, but this solar cell tree charger by Vivien Muller is, I think, kind of different. You can use...

Remember earlier this week when we talked about the Margarido House, you know that posh, modern home that's about to be the first LEED-H Platinum home in Northern California? Well,...

Check these urban townhomes out. They're pretty interesting. The design here is part of a development called Sky Hill, a twelve townhome community in Midtown Atlanta. Designed by Kuo Diedrich,...

For much of the past two years, we (meaning most of the world) have been complaining about high oil prices.  As the price per barrel climbed past once unthinkable milestones - $75, $100, $125 and then nearly $150 - the complaints grew louder and louder. Now that the price of a barrel of crude o ...

Falling gasoline prices have come as a welcome relief to many families, especially in the midst of the current financial and economic upheaval.  Since the middle of July, the price of gas has fallen from a record high of $4.12 to today’s price of $2.39 per gallon - a decline of nearly 42%. ...

Over the past four months, we’ve seen an unprecedented decline in the price of gasoline.  After hitting its record high of $4.12 on July 14, the national average price of gas has fallen over 40%, and now stands at $2.40 per gallon. The last time gas prices were this low was back in March ...

The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline now stands at $2.40 per gallon - a price not seen since early March 2007. Gasoline prices are now down nearly 42% from the record highs set back in mid-July of this year.  Over the past month, the price of gas has fallen by [. ...

The Big 3 American car manufacturers - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - used to be the backbone of the American economy.  They were the prototypical blue collar, middle class employers, where a hard day’s work meant putting together a great American product for a good wage and benefits. ...

What I mean is, if we can come from MLK's time to an African-American taking center stage at the DNC as potential first lady, maybe we can change the way we treat the habitat and each other. What an amazing--and...

A few weeks ago, I asked readers, "If a friend decided they wanted to do something about the environment, how would you tell him or her to start?" So just in case you or a friend wants to start, here...

I've said this before: it wouldn't be so bad if, while wrecking the planet, we could at least say we were having one hell of a party. But I'm not sure we are. So many of us are working way...

Now that I've finished the draft of my book, we're finally on holiday. What we used to do, before the No Impact project, was fly to France to stay with friends. But the long haul flight made enough carbon emissions...

Zero sum game: A situation or interaction in which one participant's gains result only from another's equivalent losses. Sometimes, we imagine business works that way. But what a sad, sorry way to look at the world. And if we do...