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Fortune Brainstorm Green: breaking news
Think all-electric vehicles coming to the U.S. |
David Roberts |
21 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, cars, innovation, electric vehicles, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Fortune Brainstorm Green
Shai Agassi talks electric cars in Israel |
David Roberts |
21 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, climate, Israel, electric vehicles, oil, energy, innovation (all these topics) |
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A new carbon sequestration method
Coal and bottled water -- better together! |
Gar Lipow |
01 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, funnies, green products, health, innovation (all these topics) |
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Urban Decay
Boston looks to generate electricity from indoor composting |
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26 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:07 PM on 26 Mar 2008 The city of Boston is looking to build an urban, indoor composting facility. Most cities, if they compost at all, transport food and yard waste in gas-guzzling trucks to dumps outside the city limits, where energy and methane from decomposing biomass get lost to the atmosphere. The first-of-its-kind proposed Boston facility would generate electricity from rotting leaves and fruit, enough to ... |
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| Topics: Boston, energy, innovation, news, placemaking, urban planning, waste (all these topics) |
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Water problem? What water problem?
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David Roberts |
26 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: funnies, health, innovation, water crisis, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Whatever Floats Your Boat
Sail-powered cargo ship returns home, wave-powered vessel sets off |
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17 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:20 PM on 17 Mar 2008 A cargo ship partially powered by a gigantic kite-like sail has completed a 12,000-mile roundtrip voyage across the Atlantic. Captain Lutz Heldt, who says the ship used around 20 percent less fuel thanks to kite power, says, "We can once again actually 'sail' with cargo ships, thus opening a new chapter in the history of commercial shipping." Not to be outdone, ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, innovation, news, wind power (all these topics) |
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Fighting Dirty
An interview with the founders of Method green home-care products |
Sarah van Schagen |
14 Mar 2008 |
Grist Feature |
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| Topics: art, business, consumerism, green cleaning, green living, green products, innovation, interview (all these topics) |
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This guy has it figured out
The SOZEV/train combo commute |
biodiversivist |
13 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: bikes, electric vehicles, green living, innovation, placemaking, tech (all these topics) |
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Keep your laws off my germ-resistant hook
EPA versus the antimicrobial keychain |
Tia Ghose |
06 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: health, innovation, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Blow by Blow
Company creates global map of wind patterns |
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04 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:11 AM on 04 Mar 2008 Any way the wind blows, weather-consulting service 3Tier wants to map it. The company has created a global map of weather patterns that's available free on the internet, allowing anyone to check whether there's strong enough air movement -- and transmission capacity -- to power property in a certain area. 3Tier plans to do a similar project to show the potential of solar energy, to keep the renewable-energ ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, greenish companies, innovation, news, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics) |
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Falling elephants
View the winners of the '60 Seconds to Save the Earth' ecospot contest |
Joseph Romm |
03 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: innovation, climate, art (all these topics) |
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The Velorution Will Be Incentivized
Wisconsin college gives away bikes to students who pledge not to drive |
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14 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:25 AM on 14 Feb 2008 Photo: iStockphoto Ripon College, a private liberal-arts school in Wisconsin, has launched a program to give new bikes to first-year students who pledge not to bring their cars to campus for the year. Prompted by concerns that the school might have to expand parking lots into green space if the growing student population keeps driving to (and parking at) sc ... |
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| Topics: bikes, education, innovation, news, Wisconsin (all these topics) |
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The subsidy tease, part I
Congress needs to stop flirting with the renewable energy industry |
Joseph Romm |
13 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, climate, energy, innovation, legislation, politics, renewable energy, tech (all these topics) |
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Theo Jansen's creatures
Wind-powered autonomous artificial life |
Jerome Woody |
12 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: art, brilliance, energy, innovation, wind power (all these topics) |
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He's So Transparent
Prince Charles appears as hologram to speak in Abu Dhabi |
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22 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 2:50 PM on 22 Jan 2008 Prince Charles recently spoke to political leaders at the World Future energy summit in Abu Dhabi. But swallow your cries of jet-setting hypocrisy: Chas appeared as a hologram. "Scientists are now saying that the problem of climate change is now so grave and so urgent that we have less than 10 years to slow, stop, and reverse greenhouse-gas emissions," said the virtual prince. ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, innovation, news (all these topics) |
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Search and Deploy
Google announces expansion of philanthropic goals beyond alternative energy |
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18 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 5:55 AM on 18 Jan 2008 Google has announced it's expanding the goals of its philanthropic arm, Google.org, beyond alternative energy to include fighting disease, averting pandemics and other mass crises, and alleviating poverty in the developing world. Along with the expansion of its mission, Google.org announced some of the recipients of the first round of grants and investments yesterday, t ... |
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| Topics: business, innovation, news (all these topics) |
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The Fleiss is right
Former Hollywood madam to open wind-powered brothel |
Sarah van Schagen |
17 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, celebrity, energy, innovation, sex, wind power (all these topics) |
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Major advance in plug-in hybrid design
Watch CBS this Saturday for breaking electric-car news |
Joseph Romm |
11 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, innovation, TV (all these topics) |
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But what about the less attractive countries?
Swedish company to warm buildings using body heat |
Adam Browning |
09 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, energy, innovation, renewable energy, Sweden (all these topics) |
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Backin' the saddle again
British supermarket expands bike-trailer program |
Katharine Wroth |
09 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: bikes, consumerism, green living, innovation, shopping, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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The future is ... less far in the future
New nanoantennas capture sun's energy 24-7; are cheap; are not yet for sale |
David Roberts |
09 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: energy, innovation, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, tech (all these topics) |
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For reals?
Toshiba said to have developed mini nuclear reactor |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
04 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, energy, innovation, Japan, nuclear power (all these topics) |
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The year ahead
What will it take to make 2008 great? |
Joseph Romm |
04 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: brilliance, carbon trading, climate, energy, George Bush, green living, innovation, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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Send this to your local government and public works department
Finally, something to do with all the damn asphalt |
JMG |
03 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, energy, innovation, Netherlands, solar thermal power (all these topics) |
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Moving Kite Along
Cargo ship to use massive kite-like sail on trans-Atlantic voyage |
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02 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:10 AM on 02 Jan 2008 A huge cargo ship is set to cross the Atlantic Ocean this month with some help from a massive kite-like sail that could offset up to 15 percent of its fuel use on the journey. It's hardly a return to purely wind-powered shipping, but it's a start for the hugely polluting maritime shipping industry. "This is a serious attempt to reduce bunker [fuel] costs and polluting emissi ... |
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| Topics: innovation, news, wind power (all these topics) |
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