carbon footprint
Jurdy: Cut your carbon footprint
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Recycled sex toys create a buzz
Is this the ultimate in recycling? Even the adult industry is jumping on the green bandwagon with the environmentally friendly disposal of sex toys. The project is being led by sex toy manaufacturer Dreamscapes, which has started a way for people to pop their used or broken (there’s an
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Shell plans 1,000Mw Dutch carbon capture power plant
Oil giant Shell and Dutch energy company Essent are to study the feasibility of a 1,000MW carbon capture and storage (CCS) power plant in the Netherlands. The companies say most of the CO2 produced by the power plant would be captured and stored underground. Coal and solid biomass would
prison work programs
U.S. jailbirds go solar
Looking for a sizeable and dependable workforce to help build the solar-energy industry? Look no further than the U.S. prison system (largest in the world — we’re number one!) Anyway, that’s what Spire Corporation, a solar company based in Bedford, Massachusetts, has decided to do. Spire announced this
california
Green data centre nets million-dollar-plus rebate
Who says it doesn’t pay to go green in a down economy? Try telling that to NetApp, a California-based Internet services company that’s received a $1.43 million (U.S.) rebate check from the utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) thanks to its energy-saving data centre.
green jobs
Obama's green recovery plan: efficient buildings, more broadband
In his radio address on the U.S. economy this past weekend, President-elect Barack Obama outlined the key elements in his plan to create jobs and pull the nation out of recession. Among the top goals, he said, are to make public buildings throughout the U.S. more energy efficient
solar
Dark clouds forecast by solar cell maker
we’ve all been anxiously watching the cleantech and renewable energy sector for signs of the impact of the recession and global financial crisis and there was some bad news today when the world’s largest solar cell manufacturer Q-Cells cut its profit forecast and gave a gloomy forecast going
Evopod tidal energy converter gets investment boost
UK marine energy company Aquamarine Power has made a “significant investment” in Ocean Flow Energy to help commercialise and launch a full scale version of the Evopod semi-submersible electricity generator. Ocean Flow Energy’s Evopod’s patented low motion hull makes it suitable for generating electricity in exposed, deep water
hydrogen
UK hydrogen 'mini-grid' installs wind turbine
The UK’s first hydrogen ‘mini-grid’, based in Yorkshire, took delivery this week of the wind turbine that will be used to generate the electricity needed to produce hydrogen. The second hand wind turbine was transported from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham to its new home at the Environmental Energy Technology
Indianapolis
Indy welcomes new 'sustainable' airport
See the accompanying photo of the Indianapolis Airport, circa the 1950s? Well, the airport in Indiana is today much less black and white, and much more green. The recently opened new $1.1 billion Indianapolis International Airport boasts a slew of improvements that, if they don’t make airline travel
emissions reductions
Five steps to a greener fleet
How can you remake a corporate auto fleet to be greener and more cost-effective? The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is offering a five-step guide to help businesses do just that. “Greening Fleets: A Roadmap to Lower Costs and Cleaner Corporate Fleets” offers a framework that has been developed by EDF
clean energy
Your computer could help develop a better solar cell
Virtual computer networks can do more than help in the search for little green men or aid in humanitarian-focused research. IBM and Harvard University are hoping to tap the power of virtual networks to develop a cheap yet effective plastic solar cell. Harvard’s Clean Energy Project will use IBM’