Posts Tagged with "Green"

Convert your car to an electric car

Friday, May 30, 2008

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Spending too much on gas? Maybe it’s time you switch to electric… MetaEfficient has a great post about how to convert your car to an eco-friendly vehicle. Snip from MetaEfficient: Basically, electric conversion involves removing the entire internal combustion engine from a vehicle, installing an electric motor in its place, and also adding a large bank of batteries. [...]

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Calculate Your Impact in the Environment

Thursday, May 22, 2008

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You’ve read the news—everyone wants to be green now. But do you really know how your personal choices are adding up? What about the choices of your fellow citizens? How well are people around the globe adopting behaviors that can make the world a more environmentally sustainable place? National Geographic and the international polling firm GlobeScan [...]

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Parking lot solar system

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

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The Envision Solar Grove is a highly customizable, aesthetically-designed, photovoltaic-integrated parking lot solar system. Originally designed for Kyocera Solar, the simple elegance of the Solar Grove lends itself to a variety of surroundings and terrain that could otherwise prove challenging to more standard designs. The design is based on a  graceful analogy, known as “biomimicry” — just as [...]

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Space Vegetables Could Solve World’s Food Crisis

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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The seeds from which these giant veggies grew were fired into space, where they orbited the Earth for two weeks. Once they returned they were cultivated in hothouses, producing the monster specimens seen here. China, which is behind the space fruit and veg, says they could be the answer to the world’s food crisis. China has [...]

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Beer Bottle Solar Hot Water Heater

Monday, May 12, 2008

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“I invented this for my mother. I wanted her to shower comfortably,” says Ma Yanjun, a Chinese farmer. The bottles are connected to each other by a plastic tubing so that water flows through them. Sunlight heats the water as is passes slowly through the bottles before flowing into the bathroom as hot water. He [...]

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Dongwang, the 100% solar town

Saturday, May 10, 2008

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Donggwang, a little Korean town, has achieved what even the most powerful countries in the world are still struggling to accomplish: total energy independence with clean technology. The village’s forty houses and the school all have large solar panels covering their roofs. In 2004, the government helped to install solar systems in Donggwang, paying 70% [...]

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The Zero Energy Media Wall

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

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GreenPix – Zero Energy Media Wall – is a groundbreaking project applying sustainable and digital media technology to the curtain wall of Xicui entertainment complex in Beijing, near the site of the 2008 Olympics. Featuring the largest color LED display worldwide and the first photovoltaic system integrated into a glass curtain wall in China, the building [...]

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Top 10 Green Gadgets

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

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All these gadgets have the benefit of being eco friendly as they don’t use any batteries. 10 – LightShip – Solar Powered Light 9 – SolarStore – Inflatable Solar Panels 8 – Electricity Free Fridge 7 – Solar Cooker – Flame Free BBQ 6 – Wind-Up MP3 Player 5 – Personal Wind Turbine 4 – Solar-Powered MP3 Player 3 – Fiber Optic Solar [...]

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Hypermiling to save fuel…

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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As U.S. gasoline prices hit records on almost a daily basis, an increasing number of motorists are following a radical driving technique designed to eke out every last mile from a tank of fuel. Known as “hypermiling,” the method can double gas mileage, even in gas-guzzling vehicles that would normally get less than 20 mpg.

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The Story Of Stuff

Saturday, April 19, 2008

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My friend Kriss forwarded me a link to a video showing the story of stuff. I’m usually very cautious at watching what Kriss sends me because she’s a hippie and her ideal of “saving the planet” is just too much for me sometimes. But I clicked and watched the full 20 minute video, which, I have [...]

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