UK's National Trust to insulate every castle in the country

The National Trust in the UK is going to insulate every mansion, light house, castle and farm that is in public ownership within the next five years, to make them more environmentally friendly and to save on energy...

Super Bowl 2009 to be Powered by Renewable Energy

Super Bowl 2009, which takes place this Sunday February 1, is moving even further towards lessening its impact on the environment. They have already offset their eco-footprint with a treeplanting effort and have...

Philippines Leads the Way on Renewable Energy in SE Asia

The Philippines took a bold step recently to pass a Renewable Energy Act. Like most of its neighbours, the country had allowed coal fired power  to fuel a fast-paced load growth despite the higher rates of...

Scottish Seaweed could 'fuel future'

Scotland could be at the centre of moves to utilise seaweed and algae biomass to be used for fuel and heating.Moves are being made to set up pilot seaweed farms off the West Coast of Scotland to find out which...

Ethanol being converted from household and landfill waste

Rising food prices have recently been blamed in part on the redirection of corn to ethanol plants. By growing less corn to take advantage of ethanol prices and subsidies, demand and speculation of food supplies...

Huaneng to Boost Renewable Energy

"Huaneng to Boost Renewable Energy     2008-03-26 07:52:13     China Daily ...

PMA International : The Green Industrial Revolution has Arrived!!

I'm not sure that those in the timber industry know how lucky they are, and what  opportunities they are sitting on. First let me inform you of certain current affairs which you have no doubt heard of....

Microbe Petrol For Better Living :: MAXINE

"What would happen if technology could deliver a renewable way of creating gasoline in relative minutes as opposed to the millions and millions of years it takes to create the base of gasoline we pump out of the...

Sports Car made from potatoes, hemp and cashews goes 150 mph

This is the kind of story you'd find on an eco-supermarket-tabloid:  a sports car that goes 150 mph, made out of veggies, and runs on veggies.  Apparently this is no joke, however.Gizmodo has done a...

First zero-emission home unveiled

"The UK has unveiled its first zero emission home that will set the environmental standard for all new homes in the future. The two-bedroom house is insulated to lose 60% less heat than a normal home. It also...

The Biomass Downside Of Biometrics :: Symblogogy

"Many security systems use a confirmation “second entry” in order to verify the clearance of an individual through a specific pass gate in a secure environment. In a biometric secure system, however, a...

First zero emission home unveiled

Well it looks different put no mention if we can afford it. More importantly with Global warming and Climate Change being such a hot issue and the fact that there are so many homes already built, I would have thought they would have looked at how to convert older houses to...

Starchmobile: Another Version of the Hydrogen Car

Rather than using aluminum pellets, this version of the alt-fuel car would use starch from the local grocery store.The obstacles are efficiency of conversion and the medium in which the hydrogen is carried."The...

New biofuels process developed

How big is this?"WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 14 (UPI) -- U.S. chemical engineers have created an environmentally friendly process for producing huge amounts of liquid fuels from plant matter. The Purdue University...

Grasses 51% Better Ethanol Source Than Corn :: MAXINE

In a report found in the Scientific American, a team of economists and ecologists at the University of Minnesota say that "these diverse grassland species [prairie grasses] constitute a carbon-negative source of...

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