greenlit
tonight’s 60 minutes finally blew some air on the fire surrounding bloom energy– a clean energy company that for years has been rumored to hold the key to our clean energy future. bloom energy’s fuel cell has caught the eye and captured the investment dollars (in the neighborhood of $400M) of silicon valley venture [...]
it’s in the bag
cvs is launching a green program that pays off big when compared with other programs. if you enroll in the program for $.99 you’ll get $1 on every fourth trip you don’t use one of their plastic bags. the program will roll out at all 7,000 of their stores (they’re almost as ubiquitous as starbucks [...]
no longer just a classic song by radiohead*
a forest of 100K artificial trees may flourish in the united kingdom according to this story**. the united kingdom’s institution of mechanical engineers think that the faux trees could be an answer to the global warming problem. the trees “operate a form of carbon sequestration that catches co2 from the air in a filter and [...]
earth hour 2009
what are you going to be doing tomorrow night at 8:30pm? hopefully, it’s not something that requires electricity. march 28th is the third annual earth hour where people all across the globe are asked to turn off their power for an hour starting at 8:30pm local time. the earth hour website goes so far as [...]
is it just me or is there some irony here?
everyone is going green these days, even hunters. there’s a small, but growing, movement to use “green” bullets rather than the traditional lead bullet which contains lead. scientists, environmentalists, public health officals as well as a small number of hunters say the lead bullets pose a public health risk. environmental cleanups in many military training [...]
what do they do with the bottle caps?
if you live in a state where you receive a nickel or dime for the return of your empty soda bottles, you might want to save up and build yourself a boat. in an old pier building in san francisco, david de rothschild is taking old soda bottles and building himself a 60 foot catamaran. [...]
because we don’t have enough problems here on earth
massive amounts of metal are flying around space at over 660 feet per second thanks to two satellites colliding earlier this week. the satellites, one an old nonfunctional russian satellite and the other a privately owned satellite, ran into each other in orbit somewhere over serbia causing the crash. apparently, this type of thing has [...]
