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Looking for more proof that Barack Obama understands the real challenges we’re facing when it comes to energy, food, the environment and sustainability? Then check out these comments from his interview last week with Time’s Joe Klein: “I was just reading an article in the New York Times by Michael Pollen (sic) about food and [...]
[Image credit: Pirate Alice at Flickr, Creative Commons license] According to the US Department of Energy, over 1/3 of Americans’ energy bills goes towards heating their homes. By taking steps to reduce the energy devoted to home heating, you can lower your CO2 emissions by hundreds to thousands of pounds. As temperatures drop this winter, [...]
US Firm Better Place is working with Australian power company AGL and investors Macquarie Capital Group to develop a $667 million Australian electric car charging network. Under the plan being developed, Better Place will use its scalable model (currently adopted in Denmark and Israel) to build the electric vehicle network, AGL will deliver electricity from [...]
So many hard-working and innovative people have stepped in with projects to help rebuild New Orleans in the wake of the devastating 2005 levee failures, but the Fundred Dollar Bill Project is beyond unique. The project’s goal is to encourage schoolchildren across the U.S. to create their own version of a $100 bill dubbed a [...]
My interest was recently piqued by an article at Inhabitat about a temple in Thailand built from one million — yes, that’s right: one million — used glass bottles. Building with glass sounds so intriguing, but does it really make sense? A little online snooping helped deliver the answer: it sure does.
