We are nearing the end of the fossil fuel era, and with this, solar power is high on the list of alternatives for an energy source.
You can gradually turn your home into a more energy efficient habitat through simple steps, one project at a time. For example, start with your garage door by checking to see what material it is made of, whether it is insulated, and does it have weather stripping.
Inventors created a robot bird that has the ability to take off and fly by flapping its wings. The focus on the research involving this robot bird is learning how to maximize energy efficiency and how to conserve resources. The hope to be able to take the dynamics and qualities of this project and transfer them to create new technologies with hybrid vehicles.
Cement is everywhere. The foundations of our buildings, the driveways that lead beyond suburban garage doors, the walls of our schools, and the mortar joints between every brick we lay contain a binding substance we call Portland cement. Cement is the binding agent used to hold together the tough aggregate (rocky gravel) in the concrete we can use for just about everything in modern construction. It seems harmless enough. We don’t have to cut down trees to build with it.…
For some reason, watersheds seem to be popular places to put down pavement. Housing developments, grocery stores, and shopping malls require places to drive and places to park, which means those places end up getting paved. Where water used to infiltrate into the soil, trickle down through natural water-filtering aquifers and rejoin the reservoirs that serve our thirsty civilization, now rain falls on oily pavement. Paved areas prevent water from sinking into the soil beneath them and create deluges of polluted runoff that strip away topsoil, contaminate waterways, and eventually disrupt ecosystems for miles around all paved human developments.
With tsunamis and earthquakes crippling cities and disrupting power in Japan, the Japanese are glad to have something to celebrate. Toyota’s new “Prius-a” or “Prius Alpha” series contains two models called “Prius V” and “Prius+.” The release event took place in a spacious Tokyo garden and celebrated the release of the models despite production delays. Executive Satoru Mouri said despite earthquake damage to key parts suppliers, their current production capacity of their new lithium ion batteries has reached one thousand…
PepsiCo announced this week that it will now offer five options of eco-friendly, compostable and recyclable cups to Foodservice customers in the United States.
Internet search giant Google is well known for it's investments in clean energy and sustainable living. Google's latest green initiative is a partnership with the US Energy Department to use Google Maps to display electric vehicle charging stations.
Microsoft is considered one of the most recognizable global brands throughout the world. It is difficult to find a home or office globally without Microsoft products. In 2008, Microsoft hired Rob Bernard, the first ‘chief environmental strategist’ for this global brand. Bernard heads the study of cloud computing for the company which can reduce energy use and emissions in large organizations up to 30 percent.
The global population is estimated to stand at 6.7 billion, what’s more, this figure will rise to approximately 9 billion by 2050. How we go about feeding all of these humans is an increasing concern. What we do know is that our current farming methods are not efficient enough to produce adequate food for the world’s population. It is believed that eco-farming, or ‘agroecology’, could double the crop yield in poor countries over the course of a decade.