September 2010
8 posts
World Habitat Day Oct. 4, 2010 →
Support Habitat for Humanity on Monday, October 4 - Designated by the UN as World Habitat Day:
Oct. 4, 2010, in recognition of World Habitat Day, Habitat for Humanity will raise awareness of the need for improved shelter and highlight Habitat’s priorities: the worldwide connection between human health and housing, and, in the United States, neighborhood revitalization. These themes echo the...
Management Plan Could End Brazilian Deforestation... →
Worldchanging shares a hopeful message about the Amazon rainforest:
“Market forces and Brazil’s political will are converging in an unprecedented opportunity to end deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon with 80 percent of the forest still standing,” said Daniel Nepstad, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center and lead author of the study. Since 2005, Brazil has reduced the rate of...
How Elon Musk Turned Tesla Into the Car Company of... →
Wired has a nice article on the history of Tesla, the new electric car company that demonstrated what might be possible by making it’s dashing Roadster:
The auto industry began to take notice of the little startup with the big ideas. In January 2007, GM unveiled a prototype electric vehicle called the Chevrolet Volt. In an interview with Newsweek, Bob Lutz, then GM’s vice chair, said,...
California Licenses World's Biggest Solar Thermal... →
California regulators have licensed what is for the moment the world’s largest solar thermal power plant, a 1,000-megawatt complex called the Blythe Solar Power Project to be built in the Mojave Desert.
Wow!
RMI: Giving GSA Retrofits More Bang for the Buck →
The importance of tenant involvement in energy savings is highlighted in this RMI article on energy saving retrofits of federal buildings in the US.
(via Instapaper)
World Green Building Week →
September 20-26, 2010 will be an action-filled week globally as it marks World Green Building Week. Countries around the world will hold events in major cities with the aim of raising the profile of green building.
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Green energy upgrade protects Ontarians from... →
Choosing to scale up green energy to replace the retiring Pickering nuclear station is more affordable for Ontarians than buying expensive replacement reactors, says a report released today by Renewable is Doable, an alliance of organizations including the Pembina Institute, the Canadian Environmental Law Association and Greenpeace. Last summer, Ontario suspended its purchase of two new...
From Washington to Mexico on 12.4 Gallons Of... →
Saving energy isn’t as hard as we think it is folks. Craig Henderson just made a trip in a light, aerodynamic car that looks fairly ordinary at 119.1 miles per gallon! The key innovation is the light weight of the car which is partly made out of carbon fibre. The kicker is that this car was completed in 1984. See also http://www.100mpgplus.com.