• fireplace

    Electricity-Generated Heat: More Wasteful than Useful?

    Friday, January 27, 2012

    A heating system powered by electricity is one of the cleanest ways of providing heat for cooking and temperature control. There are no fumes, no harmful gases, and there is a considerably lower chance for any accidental explosion. Or is it? Turns out that generating heat using electricity is one of the most wasteful things [...]

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  • Bioplastic

    The Perfect Plastic

    Thursday, January 26, 2012

    Ever since Belgium chemist Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite in 1905, plastic has been the “the material of a thousand uses” for humans. Plastic has been used from plane cockpits in World War II  to prosthetic implants and even life saving medical devices. One can see the usefulness of plastics all around in almost every aspect [...]

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  • oil spills

    Cleaning Future Oil Spills with these Four New Cleaning Agents

    Thursday, January 26, 2012

    On the fateful day of April 20, 2010, an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig occurred, with the ensuing events turning out to be one of the worst oil spills in history. In the wake of the environmental nightmare, some 585,000 tons of crude oil were released during a three-month period, spreading across the [...]

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  • Weather Modification: Wise or Unwise?

    Weather Modification: Wise or Unwise?

    Thursday, January 26, 2012

    “You lads look good and mournful now, don’t you, eh? And feel kinda mournful, too. Didn’t I say we’d missed the equalnoxials and we’d pay for it?…When you lads’ve farmed, like me, for forty years, you won’t be so damn cheerful when you see a spell of good weather.” So rants Old John Hawley in [...]

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  • electric vehicle at parade

    Reasonable Explanations Behind Futuristic EV Designs

    Thursday, January 26, 2012

    When you look at, let’s say a Chevy Volt, or a Nissan Leaf, would you recognize right away that they are electric vehicles if you haven’t heard of them yet? You probably won’t, because these EV’s have a standard design of a typical automobile. And yet, car show after car show, it is always fascinating [...]

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  • Green PIzza

    Green Pizza

    Wednesday, January 25, 2012

    Pizza has been a trademark for the modern lifestyle, a pop culture icon, and even the answer to life’s most mysterious questions. To some people, there are a few things that will equal a family sized, quattro formaggi pizza with mozzarella, gorgonzola, fontina, stracchino and tomatoes as one of life’s best pleasures. Others like it heavy [...]

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Green Technology

Bioplastic
Jan
26

The Perfect Plastic

Ever since Belgium chemist Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite in 1905, plastic has been the “the material of a thousand uses” for humans. Plastic has been used from plane cockpits in World War II  to prosthetic implants and even life saving medical devices. One can see the usefulness of plastics all around in almost every aspect [...]

Read More
oil spills
Jan
26

Cleaning Future Oil Spills with these Four New Cleaning Agents

On the fateful day of April 20, 2010, an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig occurred, with the ensuing events turning out to be one of the worst oil spills in history. In the wake of the environmental nightmare, some 585,000 tons of crude oil were released during a three-month period, spreading across the [...]

Read More
electric vehicle at parade
Jan
26

Reasonable Explanations Behind Futuristic EV Designs

When you look at, let’s say a Chevy Volt, or a Nissan Leaf, would you recognize right away that they are electric vehicles if you haven’t heard of them yet? You probably won’t, because these EV’s have a standard design of a typical automobile. And yet, car show after car show, it is always fascinating [...]

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lithium battery
Jan
24

Potential Green Advantages of Modern Lithium-based Batteries

Lithium is a commonly known element that has a multitude of uses in today’s modern world. Although primarily used in glass and ceramics, we most often hear the element when it is associated with batteries. But even with such benefits, lithium is actually a corrosive metal, and should not be handled using your bare hands. [...]

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Green Tips

Green PIzza
Jan
25

Green Pizza

Pizza has been a trademark for the modern lifestyle, a pop culture icon, and even the answer to life’s most mysterious questions. To some people, there are a few things that will equal a family sized, quattro formaggi pizza with mozzarella, gorgonzola, fontina, stracchino and tomatoes as one of life’s best pleasures. Others like it heavy [...]

Beyond Locavore: Foraging 101
Jan
24

Beyond Locavore: Foraging 101

How do you survive without provisions in a deserted island in the middle of nowhere? You would probably do what our ancestors did a long time ago before McDonalds and Pizza Hut … you would forage. Foraging.org adopts this definition from Dictionary.com. “[Foraging is] the acquisition of food by hunting, fishing, or the gathering of [...]

Jan
19

Environmental Rap Superhero Mr. Eco – Prince of Fresh Air

Move aside Captain Planet there is a new environmental superhero, Mr. Eco. What are Mr. Eco’s superpowers? Rapping. Brett “Mr. Eco” Edwards is an environmental rap superhero from Fresno California. He is a junior at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where he is an intern for the Alliance to Save Energy’s Green Campus Program and [...]

brussels
Jan
19

How to Become a Green Power Couple

You’ve heard of power couples like Brad Pitt and Angelina, Will Smith and Jada to name a few. What does it take to be a power couple? In the celebrity world, it is usually two people that have fame, good looks, money, and sometimes talent. Well in the green world, it is a little different. [...]



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