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Three and a half years after New Orleans was devastated by post-Katrina levee failures, the Big Easy is still working to bounce back … and it’s coming back greener than ever. (Did you know, by the way, that President Barack Obama’s pick for head of the Environmental Protection Agency — Linda Jackson — grew up [...]
The environmental group Together Green wants to empower kids to make a difference. An offshoot of the Audubon Society, they’re running the national Pennies for the Planet campaign to do just that. [Creative Commons photo by Mindsay Mohan] The campaign, first launched in 1995, wants to “help today’s communities nurture tomorrow’s environmental leaders” by giving [...]
Off-shore wind power could generate enough electricity to supply every home in the UK by the end of the next decade, the government announced. One of 30 wind turbines in the Kentish Flats wind farm, which produces up to 90 MW of renewable energy for the UK. Another 5,000-7,000 wind turbines could generate enough electricity [...]
English tours at Japan’s largest eco-fair show international visitors the hottest green gadgets from a country renown for technological innovation. At RICOH booth, we saw the demonstration of a new erasable advance paper. Printed document on this advance paper can be erased by ironing and be ready for another round of printing. I had an [...]
The January 8th, 2009 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern central Costa Rica places the Crucitas gold mine project in a new light. Crucitas is located about 60 miles north of the earthquake’s epicenter so the Crucitas area was not impacted significantly. But could it have been? The Associated Press reported that the 82 mega-watt Cariblanco hydroelectric [...]
