Ordinary Iraqis are the first victims of the Iraq War, yet there is barely any mention in the media today of the cruel toll the conflict has taken on ...
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Our Green CommunityCategoriesChelseaGreenTVSacrificial Lambs_ The Story of Mad SheepIn 1993, Linda Faillace and her family decided to start a sheep farm in Vermont. Just months later armed guards from the USDA confiscated the family's sheep and had them destroyed for fear of a disease that has never been found in sheep.
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Keep your coolWait until hot food has cooled down before putting it into the refrigerator. Keep fridges and freezers well away from heat sources such as ovens, dishwashers, and washing machines, and out of direct sunlight. Try to keep your fridge and freezer full; they will use less electricity. Refrigerators and freezers are never turned off and in an average home they are responsible for about one third of the total electricity bill. Feed the Soul
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The days of cheap oil energy have come to an end. What once was simple and cheap (i.e. driving to vacation) has become difficult and expensive (i.e. ...driving to vacation). The skyrocketing cost (and limited supply) of energy has forced us to re-examine the energy we use in our daily ...
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Submitted by jsmcdougall on August 7, 2008 12:24 PM
Amro Hamzawi is an award-winning photographer. His latest project—capturing images of the civilian cost of the war—is called "Iraqis Today, Testimonies" and he's placed a preview gallery on his web site. These images portray the suffering, harrassment, and torture endured by Iraqi families as they wait out the war between U.S. forces and the various insurgent groups.
Here's how Hamzawi introduces "Iraqis Today, Testimonies."
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Submitted by jsmcdougall on August 6, 2008 05:35 PM
BusinessWeek's Green Business section has a post from Adam Aston detailing the new race to build the nation's largest wind farm—and the leading contender is...an oil man!
From the article:
UK-based New Energy Finance released a note today summarizing some news in the wind market that really blew my mind. In fairly short order, the US has become home to the largest wind farms in the world. The title today is held by Texas’ Horse Hollow wind farm with 291 turbines and 735MW of capacity. The way things are going, that’s going to ...
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Submitted by jsmcdougall on August 6, 2008 10:46 AM
Methane is a harmful greenhouse gas...and it's everywhere. Methane is generated by the fermentation of organic matter. That means it comes from compost piles, livestock manure, wastewater, landfills, even your garbage can. And as your weird cousin may have demostrated with a can of beans, one hour, and a well-placed lighter...methane is a combustible gas.
If captured properly, methane can be used to fuel an internal combustion generator that will pump out watts of electricity for your home while burning off this harmful greenhouse gas.
The following article explains the many ways ...
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Submitted by jsmcdougall on August 5, 2008 05:46 PM
The following article has been excerpted from The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis by Greg Pahl.
Small-Scale Geo-Electricity
The renewed interest in geothermal power over the past few years has generated a resurgence of interest in small-scale geothermal electrical-generation projects as well. One of the main challenges in the small-scale category is the high per-unit cost of these power plants. Up until now, most small-scale geopower plants have been custom-built to order, and consequently have been very expensive. But that situation is about to change dramatically if recent ...
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Submitted by JTE on August 5, 2008 10:47 AM
Not only does Barack Obama’s target for renewable electricity pale in comparison to Al Gore’s vision of a complete transformation in the next ten years, but Obama’s “New Energy Plan for America” target is lower than we already produce. Taking his policy paper literally, we would have to reduce our renewable electricity production over the next ten years, rather than increase it.
Obama’s latest policy paper states that he wants to “Ensure 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.” Dude, that is so ...
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Submitted by jsmcdougall on August 5, 2008 03:51 AM
Roger Doiron, Founding Director of Kitchen Gardeners International, planted an organic vegetable garden smack in the middle of his front lawn in an effort to convince our next "Eater-in-Chief" to do the same. Roger put together a movie documenting the process and providing some interesting food production facts along the way.
If you'd like to join Roger in urging the next President to plant a vegetable garden at the White House, sign his petition at http://www.EatTheView.org.
Enjoy, and sing along:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOXtNdQxGw8 ...
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Submitted by JTE on August 4, 2008 09:46 PM
BW’s Green Business reports that venture capital investments in “cleantech” is booming. Despite an overall drop in VC funding in U.S. businesses between the first and second quarters of 2008, investment in cleantech companies was up 41 percent from the first to the second quarter, from $683.5 million in Q1 to $961.7 million in Q2.
There’s been some shifting of priorities lately. The amount of money being invested in biofuel opportunities dropped 44 percent from Q1 to Q2. Meanwhile, “Energy/Electricity Generation” is a strong investor priority, capturing 52 percent of the total for ...
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Submitted by jsmcdougall on August 4, 2008 03:37 PM
The brilliant folks over at MIT have just announced a 'major discovery' that could open the door for the solar power revolution: power at night! Using a catalyst consisting of cobalt metal, phosphate, and an electrode, Daniel G. Nocera and his team of MIT researchers, have created a simple and efficient method to split water molecules and produce oxygen gas and hydrogen—thereby overcoming one of the major obstacles to widespread solar adoption: energy storage when the sun doesn't shine.
Traditionally, solar power that is not directly used upon collection is stored in largely inefficient ...
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