Read the rest of 7 Ways Super Bowl XLVI is Going Green! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "wind power", 7 ways the superbowl is going green, composting, eco superbowl, football, green super bowl, green superbowl, indianapolis, news,... Sigue leyendo

Proposed oil sands monitoring by 2015. Click to enlarge. The Government of Canada and Government of Alberta unveiled “The Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring” in a partnership to improve environmental monitoring in t... Sigue leyendo

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There’s a cottage industry in solar research involving the manipulation of quantum dots. Solar cells using these tiny particles of semiconductors are much less expensive to produce than traditional ones, because they can be made using simple chemi... Sigue leyendo

There are many unintended consequences as fuel supplies become more scarce and expensive. (With a h/t to Rune Likvern), I see that those Greeks who are being starved of affordable fuel are starting to chop trees down for warmth and income. This so... Sigue leyendo

India has a Solar Mission to install 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022. Solar electricity is already cheaper than electricity produced with diesel generators. These optimistic figures from India, the second most populated country in the world, has ... Sigue leyendo

The IAEA commemorated World Cancer Day with a special event held at its headquarters in Vienna. The event highlighted important achievements in the past year in global efforts to fight cancer in developing countries, and featured activities of the... Sigue leyendo

'Those seeking a more tranquil 2012 oil market may be disappointed' – IEA Deputy Executive Director The relative stability in oil prices may be fragile, the IEA’s Deputy Executive Director has warned, with much depending on whether economic malais... Sigue leyendo

Last August Tendril, a US-based energy platform company, announced that they were opening their API’s and launching an energy application developer program. The idea is to allow developers to build on Tendril’s cloud platform and to deploy the dev... Sigue leyendo

It makes sense; They have great views, lots of exposure to wind and sun, and think of all the exercise you'll get climbing up. Sigue leyendo

A bill on information technology (IT) waste has been introduced in the state legislative of the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS) that is similar to a law adopted in 2008 by its neighbor, Paraná. The bill would require producers, ... Sigue leyendo

For being such a seemingly ordinary vehicle, the wheelbarrow has a surprisingly exciting history. This is especially true in the East, where it became a universal means of transportation for both passengers and goods, even over long distances.... Sigue leyendo

Cameron SinclairAfter a long hiatus we are coming back. In September my organization, Architecture for Humanity acquired Worldchanging and all its assets. Starting in November we will begin to merge this site with Open Architecture Network to crea... Sigue leyendo

The head of Norway’s oil agency has sounded the alarm over high drilling costs on the country’s continental shelf that are putting a serious restraint on its ability to tap new reserves to reverse a production decline. At the same time, offshore o... Sigue leyendo

This is a guest post by Rebecca Anderson, ACE Sierra's Educator and Team ScientistThis is weird. Today at 1:51 pm Eastern time a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck northwest of Richmond, VA. It was felt as far north as New York City. Being a native... Sigue leyendo

The Latin American Platform on Climate inpartnership with the University of Brown launches its new multi-lingual blog (Spanish, Portuguese &English), Intercambio Climático,at the Cancún Climate Change Conference. Intercambio Climático dra... Sigue leyendo

Se avecina una nueva privatización en Rusia, que estaría contemplando a muchas empresas relacionadas con el sector energético. Esto debido a que el Gobierno de Rusia enfrenta graves problemas presupuestarios, por lo que está contemplando (en ... Sigue leyendo

It has been a while—quite awhile—since I’ve made a posting. read more Sigue leyendo

We've moved house. Please visit Making Waves in it's new home. This blog is archived. Looking forward to seeing you at the new location.... Sigue leyendo

Ways that the iPad help reduce energy consumption around the World....Apps to Control Energy Use:Control4: Home automationZipCar ReservationsVisibleEnergy UFO Power Center Sigue leyendo

Confession time: I am sort of a journal fiend. I feel incomplete leaving the house without some sort of notebook for jotting down ideas. It’s fun to buy a journal, but my inner crafter sometimes wishes I’d get it together to make my very own recy... Sigue leyendo

Confession time: I am sort of a journal fiend. I feel incomplete leaving the house without some sort of notebook for jotting down ideas. It’s fun to buy a journal, but my inner crafter sometimes wishes I’d get it together to make my very own recy... Sigue leyendo

A WelHops study some years ago assessed the needs of the elderly regarding the buildings and surroundings in which they wish to live. Still as relevant today as it was when it was carried out, this study ran from May 2005 to September 2007 as part... Sigue leyendo

Amazon carbon sink threatened by drought Science Centric (6 Mar 2009 15:44 GMT) - The Amazon is surprisingly sensitive to drought, according to new research conducted throughout the world’s largest tropical forest. The 30-year study, published to... Sigue leyendo

This week has been dominated by questions of replication and of what standards are required to serve the interests of transparency and/or science (not necessarily the same thing). Possibly a recent example of replication would be helpful in showin... Sigue leyendo

Well, we'll probably still need roads, but maybe not gas. The term "air cars" sounds very futuristic, a la flying cars and auto-lace tennis shoes. But while the technology isn't anything too new (basically stored compressed air is gradually releas... Sigue leyendo

An item of interest to ethanol producers and other supporters of ethanol is this announcement by EPA, as further clarified by this announcement by EERE:The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on November 17 that the 2009 renewable... Sigue leyendo

If you don't know who Michael Pollan is google him. Then read his books, specifically his most recent, An Omnivores Dilemma and In Defense of Food.If you're not a book reader, you should be. But if you want the abbreviated version of these books a... Sigue leyendo

Governor Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey today announced his plan to triple the state’s offshore wind goal.    At the same time, the Gov. Corzine highlighted last week’s selection of Garden State Offshore Energy (GSOE) as the receipient of a grant in... Sigue leyendo

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory, along with partners at Microcontinuum Inc. (Cambridge, MA) and Patrick Pinhero of the University of Missouri, are developing a novel way to collect energy from the sun with a technology tha... Sigue leyendo