With the rise of an economy placing an increasing importance in environmental sustainability, there also comes a need for leaders educated in matters of green technology. For this, community colleges have begun offering training through new courses and degree programs.
According to a March 2010 report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory financed by the Energy [...]
Eight years ago, there seemed to be no hope for the Sumatran tiger. With only 500 tigers believed to be in existence, it was claimed that the magnificent animal would be extinct by 2014. This year, the opinion has taken a 180-degree turn as announced at the recent Bali Tiger Summit. Findings have shown that [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on September 4th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Community, Environment, global
The streets of London are littered with irresponsibly discarded chewing gum. More than 30,000 pieces of gum get stuck on Oxford Street alone everyday and it costs a fortune – £150 million to be exact – to hose all of it off each year. Seeing these statistics, and perhaps because she was tired of getting [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on September 3rd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Environment, innovation, innovative
A new species of microbe is flourishing in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico. Studies say it may help increase the cleanup speed of the massive oil spill caused by a drilling rig explosion last April.
Scientists discovered the new microbe while studying the underwater dispersion of the millions of gallons of oil that have [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on September 1st, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Environment, research
Over the last few years, New York has been experiencing an influx of bikers. No, the ones that travel at break-neck speeds on the highway, but simple bicycle riders. While the NYC Department of Transportation has already taken steps to design safer, better-performing streets for motorists, pedestrians and bicycle riders, Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to [...]
Filed under: Community, Environment, News on August 30th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Community, Environment
The latest contribution towards the development of clean energy was unveiled in Scotland earlier in the month. Weighing 1430 tons and sizing up at nearly 75 feet tall, the AK1000 is described as the largest tidal power turbine. Its developer, the Atlantis Resources Corporation, says that the device’s 60 foot rotors can generate one megawatt [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 25th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: clean energy, energy, Environment, innovation, sustainability, Technology
Sometimes, the quirkiest projects can open avenues into more interesting finds, such as in the case of Michael J. Haas and his dairy-to-diesel research. “It was something we wanted to show could be done,” said Michael J. Haas, a research biochemist at the United States Department of Agriculture who came up with the idea. [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 19th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: clean energy, Environment, innovation, sustainability
A survey conducted by The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) highlighted the importance of “natural capital” to companies based in biodiversity-rich developing economies. According to the report, nearly half of the CEOs in Latin America and Africa saw the decline of biodiversity as a threat to business growth. In contrast, only 20 percent of [...]
Filed under: Business, Environment, News on August 13th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Business, economy, Environment, sustainability
Like creating a miniature volcano using paper mâché and a careful mixture of white vinegar and baking soda, making a battery out of a potato is a quintessential school science experiment. Centuries after its discovery as an effective conductor of electricity, researchers from the University of Jerusalem in Israel are saying the potato battery can [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Technology on August 11th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: clean energy, Community, energy, Environment, sustainability
While most would agree that using rechargeable batteries is already better for the environment than using single use alkaline batteries, Apple has designed a battery charger that presents an improvement over traditional battery charging stations.
With a power-management system that cuts the power when the batteries are fully-charged, the new battery charger nearly eliminates the [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 9th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: clean energy, efficiency, energy, Environment, Technology
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.