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• Benjamin Franklin Would Be Proud; Generating Electricity with Kites

  

  Windlift, a start-up in North Carolina is following the “think different” mantra by creating a unique way to generate power off the grid: kites. Now this is no... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Common Misconceptions About Alternative Energy Sources

  

  While alternative energy sources seem to be the in-thing today, not all the press it has gotten is good. Everything has pros and cons. However, it’s just as... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• University of Maryland Wins the 2011 Solar Decathlon

  

  Much like the World Track and Field Championships, which are held every other odd-numbered year and boast the world’s greatest athlete (i.e. the decathlon... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• The Green Apple

  

  Yesterday, I briefly attended the CEATEC exhibition in Tokyo that focused on electronics and had a lot of green technologies on display: solar panels, EV... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Five Friday Facts: Sewer Water, Drought, and San Antonio

  

  Even in the middle of a historic drought, San Antonio, Texas has managed to keep the San Antonio River flowing through the River Walk area of downtown. What’s... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Review of Organic IPA from Eel River Brewing Company

  

  After a long lay off, Revolutionary Spirits returns with its latest column reviewing a beer from Eel River Brewing Company (ERB), the first certified organic... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Book Review: Alice Waters’s Edible Schoolyard

  

  Toward the end of the summer I started reading Alice Waters’s Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea from Chronicle Books. It’s not long, but it is powerful. Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• MIT Invention Harvests Energy from Vibrations

  

  Bridges, overpasses, walkways…we’ve all felt the rumble or the shaking as people and vehicles cross these structures. Slightly nerve-wracking and sometimes... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Los Angeles to Build 1st Carbon Neutral Stadium

  

  Several past posts have dealt with the idea of sports stadiums and arenas. Some of these have highlighted the advancements in green building techniques that hav... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Beer Wrapped in Roadkill: The Ultimate in Recycling Or Ultimately Grotesque?

  

  What to do with animals hit and killed by vehicles on the roads? Throw them in the woods to decompose? Leave them on the road to eventually be flattened away... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Google Invests Big in the Green Energy Revolution

  

  Last week, Google announced a $75 million “initial investment” in San Francisco-based Clean Power Financethat will help as many as 3,000 homeowners secure... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT, TECH

• Sustainability – Hijacked by the Establishment

  

  Sustainability has (un)officially become a buzzword. It feels like this happened a few years back, perhaps around the time 2nd Green Revolution was founded.... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2011 BUSINESS, ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• October 2011 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events

  

  As we mentioned earlier this week, the 21st annual Solar Tour is taking place throughout the Washington DC area. This is one of several events in and around... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Five Friday Facts: The Nature of Design

  

  A friend recently lent me her copy of David Orr’s The Nature of Design. I read and reviewed his 1994 book, Earth in Mind several months back. In the first few... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Subaru Aims for 30 Percent Fuel Economy Boost by 2015

  

  With the lowest Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) ranking for imported passenger cars from Asia in 2011 (30.6 miles per gallon), Subaru has announced plans... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• 21st Annual Tour of Solar Homes Oct. 1st & 2nd in Washington, D.C.

  For those living in the Washington, D.C. area, you can visit any of 50 energy-efficient homes around the region this weekend to learn about solar power. Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Electric Cars – A Practical Man’s Epiphany

  

  The green movement was a nonstarter for me. The generation gap was never more evident than at my house. While my son studies green technologies at school, I... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Cleanest Air in the World

  

  In a ranking released by the World Health Organization (WHO) this week, Estonia topped the list as the country with the best overall air quality. Mauritius was... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• EcoFreek, Your Search Engine for Reusing and Repurposing

  

  In an attempt to broaden the reduce, recycle, reuse mantra, Ecofreek.com offers web denizens a portal to search for used items that are listed on the web. Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Sprout City Farms Fundraiser Through September 30th

  

  Sprout City Farms (SCF), an urban agriculture nonprofit organization in Denver, Colorado, manages a one-acre organic vegetable and herb farm on the grounds of... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT