How to build a solar hydrogen home

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How to build a solar hydrogen home

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments

We all need inspiration to green up our lives. So I’ll point you to this article about Michael Strizki whose house is deemed to be the first solar-hydrogen unit in the United States. This feat of eco-consciousness is enabled by an assortment of technologies such as solar panels, a hydrogen fuel cell, storage tanks and […]

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Tags: Inspiration · Solar power · Hydrogen

Four day work week

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Birmingham, Alabama is shifting to a four-day, ten-hour-a-day work week.
Another great energy savings idea. If everyone did not do their commute (average of 30 miles one way) one day a week, that would probably be at least a 10% reduction in miles driven. (If you figure that commuter driving is one half […]

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Tags: miscellaneous · transportation · Inspiration · Initiatives

One green company: MediaSource

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Media Source is one company that has become more green. It has done this by not only trying to green its processes, but also by giving its employees some green options as well.
This is a Public Relations firm that uses less paper than most. As someone who has been in the marketing world, […]

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Tags: miscellaneous · Inspiration

World Environment Day

June 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Today is World Environment Day, organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the slogan for this year is “CO2, Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy”. New Zealand is this year’s host, with events taking place in the city of Wellington. The objective of the day is to highlight resources and […]

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Tags: environment · Inspiration · Carbon emissions · Initiatives · Green consumption

Soil microbes could help power Africa

May 12th, 2008 · No Comments

A group of Harvard students proposing a technology called Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) won one of the 16 awards in a competition to bring innovative lighting products to Africans without access to electricity. And do you know how much of the African continent goes without power? A staggering 74 per cent.
The results of the Development […]

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Tags: alternative energy · Inspiration · Solar power · Microbial fuel cells