September 1, 2010 – 8:40 am
One mantra of the decade has been that small businesses can save money, increase sales, and improve brand and company value by implementing simple social and environmental business sustainability practices. This philosophy is so true. Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner of Taiga Company a sustainability consultant who works with small businesses and advises on [...]
August 17, 2010 – 9:30 am
One environmentally destructive practice, onto which a light has been shed due to the BP oil spill in the gulf is Oil Sands Development in Alberta, Canada. Oil Sands Extraction, according to a 2008 report, leaks approximately three million gallons of contaminated water into surrounding rivers and groundwater each day. Well, in addition to this, [...]
Can green homes actually become affordable? “To stand out in a still sluggish housing market, more builders are beginning to offer average-priced, ultra-efficient homes.” Writes Wendy Koch a reporter and editor from USA Today. Green One Construction Services, based in Beaverton, Oregon, is currently working on a zero-net-energy development of eighteen homes designed to produce [...]
A new facility in the UK, Adnams Bio Energy anaerobic digestion plan, using brewery waste and local food waste will begin producing renewable gas which can be used as liquid fuel among other things. Working in partnership with National Grid, the facility expects to generate up to 4.8 million kilowatt-hours of energy per year – [...]
We are on the heels of the hot sunny summer season – and what with global warming, things are only going to be getting hotter. Let’s face it, you’re going to want something cold to drink – and if you’re anything like me, you’ll go for a beer. Since environmentalists love The Ancient Brew of [...]
President George W. Bush has made very few public appearances since leaving Washington last year. He hit the motivational speaker circuit last fall, and spoke at the Safari Club International Annual Hunters’ Convention in Reno, Nevada in January. Next month, he will appear at the 2010 national conference of the wind power industry in Dallas, [...]
November 9, 2009 – 3:43 pm
I need not strain myself by explaining that people and governments are both stubborn when it comes to going green. Global warming is nearly an impossible sell and as for energy, well, “if it ain’t cheap, it won’t compete.” Governments, worldwide apparently do not have the cajones to legislate a significant cut in oil consumption. [...]
October 16, 2009 – 5:41 pm
The Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid. It is touted as the most advanced minivan ever created. You can put either gasoline it, or hydrogen, doesn’t matter which. (Different tanks. Can’t mix gasoline and hydrogen in the same tank. Bad news.) It runs on both. If you fill it with hydrogen, it becomes a zero-emissions vehicle, [...]
October 8, 2009 – 12:19 pm
If you remember New Energy Technologies and their electricity generating speed bump, you may now rest assured that they’re getting some help. They’d probably see it as competition, but Israeli firm Innowattech has successfully tested its own method of generating electricity from road traffic. The test took place on a 10 meter stretch of Highway [...]
October 3, 2009 – 2:59 pm
In the past, we reported on manure powered dairy farms. Now, in Israel, they’re developing a chicken waste powered coop with wind turbines and solar sells. Being touted as the “Coop of the Future,” the Agrotop coop also has special egg collection chutes designed to enable birds to more easily lay eggs – and nearly [...]
