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If You Really Want To Get Off Oil, Move To Buffalo

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A few years ago, Wired Magazine published an interesting map showing carbon footprint per capita that graphically demonstrated the obvious: Where you get sprawl, lots of cars and air conditioning, you get a much bigger footprint for every citizen due to their higher energy consumption. So if we want to reduce our footprint and get off oil, what is the best thing for Americans to do? Move to Buffalo…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Land Art Meets Clean Energy In 5,000 MW-Generating Desert Sculpture

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images: Decker Yeadon LLC Contrary to popular belief, green energy doesn’t have to be ugly , so it’s encouraging when we see architects, landscape designers, artists, engineers and scientists working together to transform large projects that could be potential eyesores into works of wonder. We have some estimates of how much of the earth’s surfaces might be needed by 2030 … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Biogas From Waste, Direct to the Consumer: It’s Vegan Too!

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Ecotricity As I wrote last week, just because bio-gas is made from biodegradable sources doesn’t mean it has no impact —and some activists are increasingly worried that demand for biogas will eventually lead to deforestation and other resource depletion issues. So they’ll be pleased to know that Ecotricity, the folks who are now selling biogas direct to British consumers , have made a public commitment to only buy gas made from resources that… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World’s Largest Tidal Turbine Unveiled in Scotland – Yes, It’s Humongous

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photos: Atlantis Resources Corp. There are some big tidal turbines out there, but none so massive as the one pictured above: The Atlantis Resources AK1000, just unveiled in Scotland and due to be installed at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney later this summer. Weighing in at 130 tons and standing nearly 74 feet tall, with rotors nearly 60 feet across, the 1MW turbine’s manufacturers say it is capable of generating enough electricity for 1000 homes…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Solar Too Expensive? Critics Cite Cost Per Unit of CO2 Saved

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Clownfish No sooner do we hear about the massive growth in UK solar jobs as a result of feed-in tariffs , than others start asking questions about the viability of such policies. George Monbiot has already labeled the feed-in tariff a “rip off” , and a subsidy for the well off, and now a new report offers some numbers that may back up his view. So are micro-renewables just too expensive… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Progress? 302.5 Million Smart Meters Installed by 2015

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo by Editor B According to Berg Insight, the worldwide installed base of smart electricity meters will hit over 300 million by 2015. The research firm states that over the next five years, smart meter technology is projected to move from 15-20% market penetration to almost 50% in Europe and North America, while Asia-Pacific will go from less than 1% to as much as 25%. But considering how many homes are hooked up to an electrical grid across the globe, and that smart meters are essential to get a smart grid up and running, can this be considere… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Existing House Transformed into Eco Home-of-the-Future (Video)

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Great British Refurb TreeHugger is no stranger to fancy new LEED platinum residences , but the fact remains that we must do something about our existing housing stock if we are ever going to get CO2 cuts on the scale needed. Luckily, people are exploring how to do just that. A while back we reported on the Great British Refurb—… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Artificial Bee Eye Helps Mini Flying Robots See Better

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via New Scientist The use of biomimicry has become increasingly helpful in robotics, but it’s mainly been helpful in devising better ways for robots to move, whether swimming like a fish , flying like a butterfly , or

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Drying Clothes Indoors: What’s the Greenest Method?

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Munts Family I once very publicly confessed my laziness in putting up a clothes line , and the battles over clothes lines and property values are well publicized by now. But whether you are an avid outdoor drier, or you wouldn’t be seen dead hanging your undies up in public, all too often the issue of clothes drying is presented as either the line, or the dryer. But there are other options. The trouble is, some of them … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Subsidies for Renewables "Dwarfed" by Fossil Fuel Support

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Ecotricity When I asked whether environmentalism was socialist or not , I argued that legislative and fiscal support for renewables like cap and trade or feed-in tariffs were “little different to the direct and indirect subsidies that were used to get the fossil fuel, automobil… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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