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Today on Planet 100: Brits Flood Pakistan With Aid (Video)

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Self-Cleaning Solar Panels From Mars Find Their Way to Earth

Photo: NASA Who Knew Deserts Were Dusty? Dust is annoying enough to clean in my small apartment, I can’t imagine the headaches that it must give the owners of large solar farms. Dusty solar panels capture fewer photons and thus produce less power, so keeping them clean is important. Thankfully for solar developers, help is coming… all the way from Mars!… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Self-Cleaning Solar Panels From Mars Find Their Way to Earth

How Should We Really Measure Green Building?

“One of the greenest homes ever built” Katherine Salant writes in the Washington Post: Can a big house be green? Yes, but a smaller house will always be greener because fewer resources were used in its construction and less energy is needed to heat and cool it. It is certainly a point we have been discussing on TreeHugger for years, and it is great to see it in the Po… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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