Eco and Green Blogs
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- MIT has been researching into creating natural cell like solar cells which are able to reassemble themselves and the research so far looks...
- Basically, if it gets any lower it will be ZERO..
- IPCC must reform, recommends IAC 3 days agoAn independent review said the scientists who produce the periodic United Nations reports on climate change (IPCC) should be more open to...
- Alternative Solar Energy 7 days agoAlternative Solar Energy - this phrase often creates images of hippies and flower power... We look at what it really means.
- California approves the first U.S. Thermal Solar Plant.
- solar power efficiency 10 days agoWhat are the factors that are important in efficiently harvesting solar power - we look at what they are..
- Special Interest Groups 10 days agoTo make it easier to find information on certain important topics we have made a set of SIG's (Special Interest Groups)...
- New Rainwater harvesting calculator 23 days agoThis new calculator allows you to work out the practical tank size given average per month rainfall, your roof area and expected monthly...
- Drumbeat: September 3, 2010 49 minutes agoWe need a better understanding of the 'environmentalist's paradox' We hear lots of concerned chatter these days – not least, here on this site -...
Tags: miscellaneous, drumbeat - This week a study on peak oil by a German military think tank was leaked on the Internet. The document shows that the German government is closely...
Tags: politics, main, supply/production, original - The annotations to the ROV feeds from BP are becoming a little more descriptive, particularly with those related to the Q4000, which will be playing...
Tags: main, environment/sustainability, oil spill, deepwater horizon - Drumbeat: September 2, 2010 one day agoJudge rules against U.S. government on oil drilling HOUSTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the U.S. government's request to dismiss...
Tags: miscellaneous, drumbeat - Ethanol Blend E85 Case Study: Iowa 2 days agoIowa - The Saudi Arabia of Ethanol Iowa is to corn ethanol what Saudi Arabia is to oil. At present Iowa has the capacity to produce 3.5 billion gallons...
Tags: main, alternative energy, ethanol, flex fuel
EcoGeeks believe that technology can help solve the largest crisis that our planet has ever faced, which...
- Port of Long Beach Retrofitting Old Tugboats 21 hours agoAfter debuting the world's first hybrid tugboat in 2009, the Port of Long Beach is partnering again with Foss Maritime Company to retrofit an existing...
- Where's My Air Car!? one day agoIt sounds like a good idea: Use electricity to compress air, stuff it in a tank and use the power expelled by the air's release to power a vehicle....
- Color Filter Could Boost LCD Efficiency by 400% one day agoResearchers at the University of Michigan have created a color filter that could boost the efficiency of LCDs, the power hog of all your gadgets,...
- Lithium-Ion Battery Prices Set to Drop one day agoIt looks like supply and demand is working out in the consumers' favor when it comes to lithium-ion batteries. Production has been ramping up for...
- Coast Guard Implementing Net Zero Housing Wed, 1 Sep 10, 12:56amThe U.S. Coast Guard has set a goal of a net zero carbon footprint for housing at their Southwest Harbor Base in Maine. The base is using solar...
- Crafty Reuse: Making Recycled Books from Trash Wed, 17 Mar 10, 11:00pm
- Fab Fabrics: Typography-Inspired Prints from Spin Spin Tue, 16 Mar 10, 11:00pmFab Fabrics took a little hiatus, but we’re back and ready to get the ball rolling again with lovely, sustainable fabric choices! This week,...
Tags: fabrics, sewing, organic cotton, handmade - 14-Year-Old Mobilizes Kids Around the World for Change Tue, 16 Mar 10, 11:00pmOne extraordinary 14-year-old New Hampshire boy is showing that kids have the power to change the world. Read more of this story »
Tags: education, activism, about society, localization - Wal-Mart Goes Local – Should We be Scared? Tue, 16 Mar 10, 2:00pmIf you’re anything like me, you’re pretty skeptical of any move that Wal-Mart makes. When a friend sent me an article recently about...
Tags: business, agriculture, local food, farming - Sprout Eco-Friendly Timepieces Sat, 13 Mar 10, 2:05amThis is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of Proforma Green Marketing, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see proformagreen.com)....
Tags: products, marketing, castle merchandising, sprout eco-friendly timepieces
Future-forward design for the world you inhabit
- Amazing Urban Concepts Reinvent India’s Skyline 10 hours agoRead the rest of Amazing Urban Concepts Reinvent India’s Skylinehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink...
- These gorgeous Fractal Gardens was created by Legge Lewis Legge for the International Garden Festival in Métis (Québec, Canada). Composed of a group...
Tags: green design, sustainable design, gardening, canada - We’ve seen a lot of cool applications for Tyvek, but never one that drew its inspiration from the Rococo period – until now! Named after...
Tags: green design, eco design, recycled materials, green products - IKEA Now Selling Second Hand Furniture Online 17 hours agoIf you’re on a budget but still love the look of modern design, IKEA is a popular place to find that affordable furniture fix. But could you imagine...
Tags: green furniture, green interiors, ikea, ikea furniture - Typical of industrial construction, precious metals such as gold, platinum and palladium are sometimes lost given the difficulties of effectively...
Tags: renewable energy, green technology, gold bacteria, palladium bacteria
Lighter Footstep is dedicated to helping you lead a lighter, more sustainable lifestyle.
- Meet the ‘Cafeteria Man’ 12 hours agoA new documentary about the Baltimore Public School lunch system shows the possibilities.
- Kitchen recycling tip: Leftover spaghetti sauce 17 hours agoDon’t let food, resources, and your money go down the drain
- Keep fighting to ban plastic bags 17 hours agoA bill to ban plastic bags in California was voted down in the state Senate. Environmental activists share three ways to continue the fight.
- "Alyza Challence" cut short after overwhelming support from vegans floods online voting.
- White House offered free solar array 20 hours agoA coalition of solar companies offers to donate a $108,000 photovoltaic array to President Obama.
The voice of The Sietch community
- Ground Zero Islamic Community Center Non-Controversy 21 hours ago
- In a long line of victories Cape Wind has won yet another legal battle. Just build the damn thing already, its been almost ten years and a million...
Tags: environment, politics, pictures, cape wind - The Politics Of Oil Chemistry Sat, 28 Aug 10, 4:29amVery nice talk, well worth a watch. The politics and chemistry of oil and why this summer is so important.
Tags: environment, politics, science, oil - Koch Family Build Massive Climate Denial Machine Thu, 26 Aug 10, 3:47amThe new yorker published a great article on how one family of rich industrialists have built an empire of bad science and climate change denial. a...
Tags: environment, politics, business, videos
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step (Lao-tzu). Take the first step here.
- You Can Make a Difference! BloggersUnite.org Tue, 31 Aug 10, 4:51amMake a Difference Today BloggersUnite is a site that runs no ads, collects no fees, charges no non profits or social cause organizations. In fact...
- Hey! Climate Change is Happening Now! Sun, 29 Aug 10, 4:31amExtreme weather is putting hundreds of thousands of lives and livelihoods at risk all around the world. In order to avoid the worst and most devastating...
- Fun in the Texas Sun with E. coli Sun, 29 Aug 10, 3:12amOn June 30, the TCEQ weakened the standards for water quality in Texas. Rather than cracking down on the factory farms, oil companies and other...
- Huge Oil Plumes Remain in the Gulf Fri, 20 Aug 10, 7:14amTracking Hydrocarbon Plume Transport and Biodegradation at Deepwater Horizon -- Camilli et al., 10.1126/science.1195223 -- Science Our findings...
Tags: gulf of mexico, bp oil spill, hydrocarbon plume, underwater plume - Join Greenpeace on Virtual Ship Sun, 15 Aug 10, 11:10amThe Esperanza confronts reckless oil explorationThe Arctic Sunrise bears witness to the costs of deepwater drilling in the GulfThe virtual ship the...
Tags: greenpeace, take action, the esperanza, the artic sunrise
Not Evil Just Wrong - the true cost of global warming hysteria
- James Cameron demands people of his "stature" for climate debate Fri, 27 Aug 10, 1:20amBack in March James Cameron said, “I want to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads." This put...
Tags: general - James Cameron—King of Hypocrites Mon, 23 Aug 10, 8:49amLast March James Cameron sounded defiant.The Avatar director was determined to expose journalists, such as myself, who thought it was important to...
Tags: general - UCLA fires professors for reporting real scientific data Fri, 20 Aug 10, 5:13amJames Enstrom, an epidemiologist at the UCLA School of Public Health, was recently fired, because his research "is not aligned with the academic mission...
Tags: general - Climate alarmism pops up for Prop. 23 Wed, 18 Aug 10, 4:53amThe "No on 23" campaign has resorted to fear mongering and alarmist claims about Proposition 23. I can't say we're surprised, after all if there...
Tags: general - Big Oil v. Big Environment. But who's for California? Thu, 12 Aug 10, 7:46amMedia in California is busy vilifying an oil company, Valero, for contributing $4 million dollars to the "Yes on 23" campaign. But no one is asking...
Tags: general
News Blog from the Telegraph Media Group
- Al Gore’s Church of Climatism has claimed a new glorious martyr. His name is James Lee – the Discovery channel attempted eco-suicide-bomber...
Tags: environment, politics, boris johnson, discovery channel - Earlier this week my fellow columnist and old Oxford chum Boris Johnson wrote a jolly piece which wittily melded the story of the wheelie-bin cat...
Tags: environment, politics, africa, boris johnson - But Lomborg was always a Warmist… 2 days agoThe ecotard media – led, naturally enough, by the Guardian – has been making great play of “Skeptical Environmentalist” Bjorn...
Tags: environment, politics, uncategorized, bjorn lomborg - How the BBC pretended to be balanced on 'climate change'. And failed, obviously. Mon, 30 Aug 10, 11:04pmI have just been listening to Uncertain Climate, the first in BBC “Environment Analyst” Roger Harrabin’s two-part Radio 4 investigation...
Tags: environment, politics, bbc bias, sir crispin tickell - How the BBC pretended to be balanced on 'climate change'. And, failed, obviously. Mon, 30 Aug 10, 11:04pmI have just been listening to Uncertain Climate, the first in BBC “Environment Analyst” Roger Harrabin’s two-part Radio 4 investigation...
Tags: environment, politics, bbc bias, sir crispin tickell
by Steve McIntyre
- ICOADS – Hawaii 2 days agoI did a quick analysis using a random effects model to calculate monthly “anomalies” as a residual allowing separate random effects for...
Tags: uncategorized, hawaii, icoads - A First Look at ICOADS Tue, 31 Aug 10, 7:27amFor quite a while, I’ve urged people interested in gridded temperatures to really look at the SST data – realdata not adjusted data. SST...
Tags: uncategorized, hawaii, icoads, ssr - Tar and Z Tue, 31 Aug 10, 2:45amOver the weekend (before I picked up my “regular” files), I started looking at Steve Mosher’s use of raster and zoo – both...
Tags: uncategorized, icoads, sst, tar - Back from Erice Tue, 31 Aug 10, 1:28amGot back from the annual WFS conference at Erice, Sicily a couple of days ago. It is an interdisciplinary conference on world issues, in which climate...
Tags: uncategorized - Kriging on a Geoid Fri, 27 Aug 10, 4:24amGeoff Sherrington and others on the First Difference Method post have requested a post for discussing Kriging. I am new to Kriging myself, so please...
Tags: uncategorized
A sometimes humorous look at the antics of Global Alarmists and their cronies in the climate industry
- Old white anglo male, Professor Lowe, blames world’s problems on old white anglo males Mon, 15 Mar 10, 9:50pmIan Lowe emeritus professor of science, technology and society at Griffith University in Brisbane, is president of the far left Australian Conservation...
Tags: science politics, plain idiotic - Climate Change devastating for women - Causes STD’s Sun, 14 Mar 10, 8:19pmClimate change is devastating for women.Climate change causes hundreds of things from women taking up prostitution to acne.Now the UN and WEDO (Women’s...
Tags: science politics - Before Gore or the IPCC, the end was nigh Sun, 14 Mar 10, 7:00amAn interesting post on SPPI,Source: AP Story in the Washington PostThe Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places...
Tags: historical - Stupid is as stupid does Mon, 8 Mar 10, 9:56pmClimate Warriors Unite!Rebel Climate Scientists Planning Major New OffensiveLet’s do a little role playing for a moment. Imagine you are a genius...
Tags: science politics - Top scientist says drought not caused by global warming Wed, 3 Mar 10, 11:48pmSenator Penny Wong, Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Water, has been claiming that the drought in the Murray Darling (something that...
Tags: science politics, science news
- NASA probe to ‘touch, taste and smell’ the sun. 2 hours ago
- It’s nice to see somebody worried about elitism and climate change. The Climate Change Conference (COP16), to be held later this year in Cancun,...
Tags: climate news - Via Press release (Eurekalert) Report from START: Discovery Networks Hostage-Taking a Rare Terror Event U.S. Violent Terror Rarely Against Media,...
Tags: environment, media, current news - Up slightly from .489 last month to .511 a change of .022 degrees C August 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.51 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer While...
Tags: climate data - New York Post: Meltdown of the climate ‘consensus’ 20 hours agoExcerpts: Meltdown of the climate ‘consensus’ By MATT PATTERSON If this keeps up, no one’s going to trust any scientists. The global-warming...
- Shapiro speaks 7 hours agoHarold Shapiro, the economist who headed the IAC review of the IPCC, is interviewed at Climate Central. This is very interesting stuff, in particular...
Tags: climate other - Hewitt again 18 hours agoI'm still can't take the smile off my face at the ridiculousness of Nick Hewitt's 'review'. It's just so hard to comprehend how one can reach the...
Tags: climate hsi - Budiansky on Cuccinelli 19 hours agoOne of my favourite science writers, Stephen Budiansky, has recently joined the blogosphere and is today discussing the Cuccinelli investigation and...
Tags: blogs, climate mann - Climategate report 23 hours agoI am now in a position to reveal that my report for GWPF on the Climategate inquiries will be released on 14th September.
Tags: climate cru, climate oxburgh, climate parliament, climate russell - Another review one day agoChemistry World is the latest magazine to review the Hockey Stick Illusion. This is another critical one...
Tags: climate hsi