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[image credit: Jelle at Flickr under a Creative Commons license] Researchers at Michigan State University are working on technology that could help small farms transform animal waste from pollutant to fuel. Through funding from both public and anonymous, private sources, MSU is planning an Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center. The Center will test methods [...]
In a time when stock prices, gas prices and more change dramatically within days, hours and minutes, it’s hard to imagine that anyone five years ago could have had a cogent take on today’s troubles. Until you watch Jared Diamond’s talk on why societies fail, given in February 2003 in Monterey, California. Diamond, in case [...]
[Image credit: Colin at Flickr under a Creative Commons license] The Home Depot is holding a contest for videos on home energy conservation. For the first prize video, the Atlanta-based chain is offering $5000 in Home Depot gift certificates towards energy-saving products at Home Depot and up to $2000 for installed insulation or radiant barrier [...]
Businesses, organizations, and individuals in Colorado can offset their greenhouse gas emissions and support local clean energy with carbon offset credits from Project C. “Global warming is our generation’s greatest environmental challenge. The scientific evidence that human activities are the principal cause of a warming planet is clear, and we will see the effects here [...]
The following video is from our friends at ViroPOP. Head over to their website for more great clips with host Jessica Williamson. $268 bottle of water, anyone? Going once… going twice…. Just as growth in the US bottled water market is finally dropping off, Greenland has made the bewildering move to bottle and export 1 [...]
