LA Times Emerald City Blog reports a journey by a raft made of thousands of water bottles departing from Long Beach to Hawaii.
From the YouTube description:
Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Joel Paschal depart from the Long Beach Aquarium in California for Hawaii on a raft of 15,000 plastic bottles in order to help call attention […]
UK Guardian reports a possible breakthrough that could offset any warming effects of carbon dioxide emissions. A prototype that would remove more CO2 from the air than the device’s carbon cost to build and operate is planned to be demonstrated within two years. A diagram of the “CO2 Extractor” and a description of its discovery […]
Media star Daryl Hannah is known to geeks mostly as the replicant from Blade Runner and to green activists for her protesting the bulldozing of the South Central Farm by living in a tree on the site until she was removed by the authorities so another warehouse could be built.
I find the natural pest repellent […]
Paypal founder Peter Thiel is funding The Seasteading Institute to investigate the legal and technical advantages of living offshore in off-grid artificial habitats.
It might sound like the setting for the videogame Bioshock, but the institute isn’t playing around: It plans to splash a prototype into the San Francisco Bay within the next two years, the […]
Food aid is not being delivered because of fuel costs, and the cost of food is skyrocketing by itself. Biofuel from corn or even switchgrass requires turning agricultural land into not very efficient fields dedicated to fuel production instead. Kurzweil AI reports a Physorg article about genetically altered cyanobacterium (blue-green algae) that produces cellulose and […]
The U.S. is no longer number 1, according to a University of California research team quoted in this BBC online story.
We’ve got to try harder! Er, I mean to stop China’s reckless industry, that is.
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Green Living Expo is in Los Angeles this weekend. Free Admission!
“Over 200 exhibits.” Organic food, alternative energy, sustainable fashions, clean household goods, music, art, and health products.
I’ll be wandering around there since I’m in town.
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Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow posted an article, “Can aviation go green with algae-based biofuels?” about biojet aviation fuel for Virgin Atlantic.
The link to a World Changing story, “Taking Aloft With Sustainable Biojet”, describes the next test:
When the Air New Zealand test takes place, it will be with a second generation feedstock. Of the possibilities, two […]
Off Grid story from March 22 (again, not an April Fool’s Day joke) about personal nuclear reactors.
Think I’m lying? How about this Gizmodo story?
Stephen Years quotes a Santa Fe Reporter article about Los Alamos based Hyperion’s planned product.
The portable nuclear reactor is the size of a hot tub. It’s shaped like a sake cup, filled […]
Eco Chick’s Starre Vartan was on what looks like a local Fox News affiliate in New York, talking about eco friendly consumer choices such as eliminating water bottles, junk mail, overly packaged wipes, shoes, and my favorite: switching to a laptop computer instead of a desktop. Done that!
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Adelaide over at the Wild Charlock blog covers green-related weirdness in Portland, Oregon. Her latest post is a link to an Awareness Test from the U.K. that has some relevance for transportation alternatives.
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Toxic Trailers is a great resource about the health effects of formaldehyde and other chemicals found in RVs used as emergency housing for hurricane Katrina victims. The trailer toxicity issue continues to get national TV coverage.
To the site’s credit, they also link to skeptical articles from the RV industry, quoting:
Air samples were taken daily on […]
AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water from PhysOrg.com
(AP) A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones - have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
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An inspiring documentary on the Cradle to Cradle design concept.
Click image of the view of Earth from Apollo 8 over Rama’s interior to see a list of O’Neill cylinders and other space habitats.
The Story of Stuff, an entertaining video presentation, illustrates among many other concepts, the limitations of recycling. For every barrel you recycle, 70 barrels of waste were required in manufacturing the item. […]
Digg reports that a story in ecogeek describes success with nanocrystal LEDs, further explained at New Scientist.
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My WordPress setup doesn’t like to edit these embedded objects, so I’m reposting fresh to fix the weird layout problems. Sigh.
The above episode (number 106) of The Boaters TV discusses international ship pollution regulations and follows with a story about the upcoming Independence 60 solar luxury yacht.
Occasional green boating stories appear, but especially noteworthy in […]
Clarence Eckerson, Jr. of Steetfilms writes of Bogotá, Colombia’s Ciclovia, “a weekly event in which over 70 miles of city streets are closed to traffic where residents come out to walk, bike, run, skate, recreate, picnic, and talk with family, neighbors & strangers…it is simply one of the most moving experiences I have had in […]
Oh, happy day! (If you’re a prison stock investor.) Digg links to a New York Times story reporting that more than 1 out of 100 Americans are in jail. So forget the 750 per 100,000 I mentioned before, it’s up to over 1,000!
See also the SVTC campaign against toxic prison sweatshops.
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There have been several BBC online reports this week about polluters in China.
The first was official concern about the pollution impact of the Beijing Olympics.
The next day a report about a river running red due to pollution.
And today an announcement of a plan to log industrial pollution sources.
Water supplies to about 200,000 people in central […]
Jeffrey Yago, in an article at Backwoods Home, describes how inefficient incandescent bulbs are being phased out in some states by 2010, and federally by 2012. But there are problems with the most common replacement.
In past articles I have also described how the more energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps being promoted to replace these incandescent light […]
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