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All Posts Tagged With: "green roof"

The Daily Five: Friday, 04 December, 2009

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Cheapest Car to Go Hybrid; Google to Move Into Clean Energy; CMT-380 plug-in diesel hybrid supercar; Boosting Biofuels; Thermeleon roof tiles

Tata Nano: World’s Cheapest Car to Go Hybrid Not sure if this is at all necessary, but hey – who am I to judge? If all goes according to plan, the ultra-cheap hybrid stands to [...]

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The Daily Five: Thursday, 05 November, 2009

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World’s Tallest Green Roof; Solar Powered Monorail; Waiting Lists For Think City and Aptera; Solar Power When the Sun Goes Down; Honda designers talk about EV concepts
Sears Tower May Sport World’s Tallest Green Roof The Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, is spending about $200 million to $300 million to upgrade its energy [...]

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Green Roofs Shown To Offset Climate Change Pollution.

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Research done at Michigan State University in East Lansing has determined that filling rooftops with plants and dirt can help to pull heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. If this isn’t a reason to install green roofs on every single building that can hold them, I don’t know what is!

From the report at Discovery [...]

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The Daily Five: Wednesday, 30 September, 2009

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Mazda Kiyora Concept; Target Center Green Roof; Congestion Tax Boosts Alt-Fuel Vehicles; Smart Energy Dryers; First Fat-to-Fuel Plant
Mazda Unveils Kiyora Concept Mazda has unveiled the Kiyora, a lightweight concept car powered by a new 1.3 liter SKY-G direct injection engine that could achieve 75 miles per gallon on the U.S. test cycle.
Minnesota’s Target Center Completes [...]

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The Daily Five: Thursday, 16 July, 2009

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Eco-Friendly Cool Air; NY green rooftop; Bliss Trek helps you save fuel; Solar-powered cargo ship; Incentives for EVs in Canada
Eco-Friendly Cool Air. Artica is a natural cooling, ventilation and heat recovery system which boasts of using less than 10% of the energy of a conventional air conditioning system. Its ratio of thermal to electrical [...]

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