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• An Unusual Two For One: Controlling Weeds While Generating Energy

  

  Working with Coretec Inc., a manufacturer that specializes in energy-saving machinery and systems, Fuji Electric announced last December that they had come up... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• What Does the Natural Gas Boom Mean for Sustainability?

  

  Both NPR and the New York Times ran stories last week that highlighted the role of natural gas in the U.S. energy economy. NPR interviewed Amy Myers Jaffe,... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Department of Energy to Fund Wireless EV Charging

  

  Nikola Tesla, a major proponent of alternating currents (as in AC of AC/DC; no not the band), envisioned wireless transmission of electricity more than a centur... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Double Set of Five Friday Facts: Natural Gas Leads the Pack

  

  When looking at which energy source provides the most energy to the American economy, natural gas topped the charts for 2010 (the most recent year for which dat... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Bamboo Keyboard from iZen

  

  You spilled soda on your wireless keyboard and that darn M key keeps sticking.You broke down and bought a new iPad, then realized you didn’t want to compose lon... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• CFL Bulb Recycling Around 2 Percent

  

  With all the attention compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) get for saving energy, it seems like the importance of recycling them has taken a back seat. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Weather Disasters Set Record for Costs in 2011

  

  2011 saw a slew of natural disasters in the U.S. that brought a record of 14 separate weather events with costs exceeding $1 billion each. From hurricanes and... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Ball State Completes Largest Geothermal Installation

  

  A few years back we wrote an article about Ball State University’s plan to replace their coal-fired boilers with a geothermal system. As it turns out, the time... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Eco-Marathon Challenges Students to Create Ultra Fuel-Efficient Transport

  When energy efficiency and fuel economy come to mind, big oil is not always the first image that pops up. However, Shell Oil has been supporting the... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Building for the Next 500 Years

  

  While attending a United States Green Building Council (USGBC) meeting recently, someone mentioned that a local university was building to a 500 year standard. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• EPA’s P3: Planet, Prosperity, People

  

  by Eric Wilson on April 7th, 2012 In the vein of honesty, the three words under our logo, “People. Planet. Profit.” are not our own. John Elkington is credited... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Five Friday Facts: Technology and US Fuel

  

  The incredible drop in imported liquid fuels such as oil over the last 6 years is due in large part to technological breakthroughs in drilling and recovery... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• EPA Closer to Approving 15 Percent Ethanol-Gasoline Blend

  

  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently gave approval to 20 fuel and fuel additive manufacturers registering ethanol to use in the production of E15—... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Apple To Use Bloom Energy Fuel Cells At New Data Center

  

  In a following up to our post in February about the green data center Apple is planning to build in North Carolina, a few more interesting details about the... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• LightSail Energy, Storing the Wind and Sun

  

  The days of a single dominant energy source are just about over. In the U.S., no one source provides a majority of the energy that is converted into... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Number Of Green Jobs In U.S. Measured For First Time

  

  The numbers have been crunched by the Labor Department and the results are in: green jobs accounted for an eye-poppingly low 2.4% of the United States’ total... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Learning to Embrace The Slow Life

  

  I was washing dishes the other day and bemoaning how time consuming it was. This sparked one of those internal conversations that seem to dominate my thoughts... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• April 2012 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events

  

  When thinking about mining, sustainability is not the first word that comes to mind. For that very reason, the Sustainable Mining Conference in London presents... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Five Friday Facts: Tour De Fat

  

  Earlier this week, the 2012 Tour de Fat dates were released. Organized by sustainability heroes New Belgium Brewing, the Tour is a celebration of bicyclists. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Energy Star Program Celebrates 20th Anniversary

  

  Since being created by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1992, the Energy Star program and its partners have helped save Americans nearly $230 billio... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT