All Posts Tagged With: "Water"
The Daily Five: Monday, 16 November, 2009
Eco-friendly Christmas tree; Streetlights powered by trash; Wind farm completed in Utah; Water on the Moon!; Electric Ave at the Auto Show
Eco-friendly reusable Christmas tree These folding, reusable Christmas trees and ornaments are made in Finland from sustainably harvested FSC certified wood.
203 MW Wind Farm Completed in Utah First Wind’s Milford Wind Corridor project has [...]
The Daily Five: Monday, 10 August, 2009
Corn-based biodegradable plastic…cellphone; Sustainable Paint Process from Ford; Evolve Ladybug Showerhead Adaptor; Lamborghini Hybrid; Shipping container homes
Corn-based biodegradable plastic…cellphone. Samsung and Sprint plan to roll out their new Reclaim, an under-$50 phone featuring a case made of corn-based biodegradable plastic. However, 60% of the case is still non-biodegradable plastic, so I am a little [...]
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 29 July, 2009
Nissan EV; Human-powered monorail; Smart-tech for water savings; Solar-powered moon rover; Passive solar home.
Nissan readies its zero emission car for debut. Another EV coming from another foreign carmaker – and we wonder why American manufacturers are having trouble keeping afloat! Expected to garner a 100-mile range, the lithium-ion battery powered car will hit dealer [...]
The Daily Five: Thursday, 23 July, 2009
Wyndham goes wind-powered; Greenest building ever?; Toyota’s cheap fuel cell car; Cleaner Fuel for Ships ; Getting water out of the air.
Wyndham’s New HQ Powered 100% by Wind Energy. Powered 100% by wind energy, Wyndham Worldwide’s new headquarters in Parsippany, N.J., highlights the company’s commitment to environmental sustainability with a number of green features. Now [...]
The Daily Five: Friday, 12 June, 2009
Using bacteria to clean the air; No-charge cellphones; Climate change cutting into wind power; Water droplet resort creates H2O out of thin air; Unused computer power to study climate change.
Bio-Reaction Industries has come up with a way to clean the air using bacteria. The system relies on microbes to eat carbon-based molecules. Air containing VOC’s [...]
The Daily Five: Monday, 8 June, 2009
Subway powered by renewable energy; hybrid scooters; new energy bill a gamechanger for solar industry; a plug-less sink; turning a 2-liter bottle into a light bulb
First renewable-energy powered subway in the world. Metro de Bilbao, the company that manages the subway system in Spain, says that all energy they used in 2008 was from renewable [...]
The Daily Five: Sunday, 13 July, 2008
CleanTech Week in Review: T. Boone Pickens pitches taxpayers for a Texas-sized handout; Toyota’s labor practices come under fire; and is Peak Water for real?
Read Article | CommentsThe Daily Five: Friday, 11 July, 2008
Industry experts thing gasoline prices will recede — eventually; a train that never stops, not even for passengers; and a vending machine for common bike parts.
Read Article | CommentsL.A. Water Supply: Toilet-to-Tap, Take 2
Los Angeles has been known for years for having an unsustainable lifestyle; the city’s water is brought by aqueduct from over 200 miles away. Will the mayor’s ambitious new plan save the day?
Read Article | CommentsWill Desalination End Worries Over Freshwater?
Desalination is essential to surviving in Saudi Arabia–can it be adapted to run cheap and clean in other parts of the world?
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