An Associated Press investigation found pharmaceuticals in nearly ever drinking water supply that they tested, including those of 24 major metropolitan areas across the nation. Nancy Cordes reports.
Perhaps eco-newb is a bit much. The gentleman in the story after all does sell locally grown produce. Those of us green minded folk, who are subconsciously drawn to exploring the unlimited resourceful ways of minimizing our contribution to pollution, are often times reminded just how gratifying our work of educating on sustainable ideals can [...]
Mike Adams wrote a fantastic article over at NaturalNews.com detailing the tricks and psychological secrets used by the food and dye chemical industries to fool you into believing your purchase is the nutritionally optimal choice.
It takes little sense to see just how non green the traditional combustion engine fossil fuel driven lawn mowers are. So those are obviously the lamest of all lawn care tools. And, the eco-friendlier reel mowers are too labor intensive for most large yards, try your hand at a solar charged electric lawn mower. This was an engineering project put together with step by assembly instructions including pictures.
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 that could potentially cost pennies a yard, be imprinted on flexible materials and still draw energy after the sun has set.
Mitsubishi Motors, Mitsubishi Corporation and battery supplier GS Yuasa Corporation have been planning a joint venture company to get the ball rolling on much needed large format and fast recharge lithium-ion batteries with an electric car application in mind.
On December 12, 2007 they formally solidified the deal into Lithium Energy Japan. This is phenomenal news for the EV car industry.
Already, Nanosolar says that they can sell panels for roughly $1 per watt, which will result in $2 per watt installations. Suddenly, that starts to look a lot like the $2.1 per watt that it costs to build a coal plant.
And that is extremely exciting news.
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This is how to make passive solar heater for under $20 or so. It is basically a greenhouse box. Simple yet brilliant. It is environmentally friendly (after it is assembled), green, handy, forehead slappingly easy to make, and even an awesome project for shop class. Ok so it will not become school curriculum, but most agree it should be damn it! grumble government subsidies grumble greed and priorities and blah…watch this and learn!
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