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Fish Waste Biodiesel Project Launched in Vietnam
What to do when your corner of the world consumes 5 million liters of diesel fuel a day and you have a fish processing industry which can produce 120,000 kilograms of processed fish waste daily from just one factory? Turn that waste into biodiesel, obviously. Thats just what Finlands VTT Techn ...
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Is Home Ownership a Good Thing? Part II
Andrew Maynard plug in housing When I asked Is Home Ownership a Good Thing? a few months ago, the consensus was very much yes. Now some thoughtful people are coming down on the other side. Richard Florida: Our reliance on single-family homeownership is a product of the past 50 years and the ...
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Mini E Wont See Commercial Production, Field Trial Results Destined For 2010 Electric BMW
photo: Mini USA You probably heard or read about last weeks announcement that applications for the Mini E field test had been opened and that 500 people in the Los Angeles and New York metro areas would be participating. Maybe you ever applied to have the honor of paying for a year-long lease on ...
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Nokia Entering Smart Home Scene with Mobile Phone Project
Photo via Ubergizmo The iPhone isnt the only cell phone that will allow you to adjust your homes power consumption. Nokia has entered the smart home scene and is working on providing a new option for controlling your smart home via your mobile phone. Nokias Home Control Center is a Linux-b ...
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The Shop of (Design) Delight Pops Up in London
Pop-out to a pop-up has got to be London's theme this month. Everywhere temporary shops selling Christmas goodies are appearing...and then disappearing. Last week's was an eco delight with ecological and green gifts for everyone and this week's caters to the design crowd. Brought to you by Design ...
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Five Picks for Eco-Friendly Socks
"The Sockfather" is a silly spoof underscoring why eco-socks are better. Why has it been incredibly easy to buy organic t-shirts and yet so relatively difficult to find a good, affordable selection of organic and/or eco-friendly socks? Socks are as necessary as ...
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Quote of the Day: Andy Revkin Re-Evaluates Climate Change
Andy Revkin of the New York Times at Columbia University on why climate change is not the story of our time: My coverage has evolved. Climate change is not the story of our time. Climate change is a subset of the story of our time, whic...
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Tropical Forests Better Left Intact As Carbon Sinks Than Converted to Biofuel Plantations
photo: Steven Wong That may be an obvious statement for regular followers of renewable energy news, and of the green movement in general, but a new study published in Conservation Biology illustrates just how important intact tropical forests are in slowing climate change. And just how counter p ...
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Beijing Meets Its "Blue Sky" Target for 2008 -- Just Don't Look Up
Andrew Lih China has a big counterfeiting problem, but it's not DVDs or clothing or cars. It's pollution statistics. We've mentioned it before, and wrote about it recently at The Vine, but as the UN worries about giant smog clouds over Asia and Beijing considers
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"Japan Car" Exhibit at London Science Museum Explores Futuristic Design
(Image from Japan Car: Designs for a Crowded Globe at Flickr) London's Science Museum, Design Platform Japan and a host of others are presenting a rather different take on the cultural aspects of state-of-the-art automobiles, including kei cars, in a clever exhibition that started on November 29, ...
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Lemon-Powered Desk Clock Brings Back Science Fair Memories
Photo via Anna Gram Heres a stylish throwback to grade school science experiments: A clock that runs on lemons. The citrus clock is designed to be an elegant way to run a timepiece for a week with one lemon. But, it raises a few questions about the merit of such a design. ...
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Michelle Kaufmann Designs McMansion Gingerbread
We wrote a year ago about Michelle Kaufmann's assault of the booming prefab modern gingerbread scene, noting that "as the mortgage crisis deepens, this may be the only modern prefab market left." We are disappointed to note that whereas last year her house was a modest, one storey number, she has go ...
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Worlds Fastest Electric Superbike: 125 MPH & No Carbon Emissions
photo: The Guardian If you live in the United States, you may have missed the announcement made last Thursday, that the worlds fastest all-electric superbike has been unveiled. Making its first appearance at the 2008 NEC Bike Show in the UK , the TTX01 isnt commercially available yet, but it is ...
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Just What We Needed Dept.: Seven Things You Don't Want for Christmas
My favorite talmudic anecdote is from the Rabbi who noted "my life has been blessed, because I never knew I needed anything until I had it." I know exactly how he felt; How have I coped without this One Click Butter Cutter? No wonder North American kitchens are so big, they have to accommodate all ...
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Beijing Meets Its "Blue Sky" Target for 2008 -- Just Don't Look at the Sky
Andrew Lih China has a big counterfeiting problem, but it's not DVDs or clothing or cars. It's pollution statistics. We've mentioned it before, and wrote about it recently at The Vine, but as the UN worries about giant smog clouds over Asia and Beijing considers
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Upcycled Laptop Bag Shows Your Stance on Style and Green Thinking
Photo via labudde Choosing accessories for your laptop can sometimes be tough. You may want to choose the greenest option possible, and yet you don't want to sacrifice style. Sometimes you want to buy whatever is at the closest store because it's easy. But there are some excellent options out the ...
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Jet Engine Wind Turbine Design Could Halve Wind Power Electricity Costs
Until some carbon taxes or a cap-and-trade system pushes fossil fuel prices up to where they probably should be (if all the environmental factors are taken into consideration) any small thing that reduces the cost of generating electricity from renewable energy sources is great news. A claim tha ...
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Amazon's Refurbished Kindle Underscores Issues with Buying Used Gadgets
Photo via Robert Nelson Amazon is finally offering refurbished Kindles apparently theyve been around long enough that refurbished options are actually available. Kind of. Theyre currently out, but keep your eye on the website for more. The good news is that while the price red...
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4,000 Electric Vehicles To Be Leased by US Army
photo: Native American Biofuels Considering that many of its higher profile vehicles really suck fuel like theres no tomorrow, you may not think that the US military concerned itself much with reducing fuel usage, but based on a recent announcement thats apparently not the case. According t ...
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Another Reason to Laugh When They Say that Concrete is Green
They are just so cute, those kids on the cement promotion site. The concrete manufacturers advertise themselves as green, and whenever we go to the trade shows, all the insulated form manufacturers are calling themselves "green"- there was a whole row of them at Greenbuild. My usual complaints are ...
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