10 eco-building innovations: plug-in floors, giant bunnies and flying hostels
Green building is in, and it’s astounding how many innovative and eco-friendly designers are out there. Here are
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Cheers and jeers for UK transport plans
As environmental groups decry today’s OK for a third runway at Heathrow airport, others are cheering accompanying decisions — including
Study: emerging economies more eager to act on global warming
We’ve all heard plenty about how people in developing countries are eager to catch up to the developed-nation
Online gaming could cut world energy consumption
Now here’s a novel energy-saving idea that just might work brilliantly: making efficiency improvements the object of a
Paper: solar industry not as clean as it needs to be
Hmm, it seems as though kicking this fossil fuel habit through renewables isn’t so straightforward after all: right on
Try the CD cases, hold the soy sauce
As if the food-versus-fuel debate weren’t enough already, along comes some new fodder for a potential food-
Home wind energy claims often just hot air, study finds
Done right, home-based wind turbines can be an effective way to produce energy and reduce your carbon footprint. Sadly,
You may all now Google without guilt
More head-spinning updates on the “Google searches are melting the planet” brouhaha: the research that reportedly found two Google
New biofuel plants tap corn cobs, old power poles
Hmmm, let’s see … we’ve tapped corn, algae and sugarcane for biofuels. What’s next? How about corn cobs
Toyota says the "P" word (as in "peak oil")
Plug-in and hybrid vehicles are taking center stage at this week’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit,
Stanford starts new, $100 million energy institute
Stanford University announced this week that it’s establishing a new institute to focus solely on energy issues. The Precourt
Honda unveils Insight, the "more affordable" hybrid
Going green with your choice of vehicle won’t require as much of the other kind of green, as in