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An Interesting Angle: Google Greens the Planet
It's an interesting angle: Google admits to using a huge number of megawatts in its data centers, but look how many millions of trips to the library that saves. Read More...
Urban Wetlands: Using Mother Nature to Clean Up After People
Cities and towns are finding that cleaning water and recycling can be done by taking a page out of nature's book -- like using the earth to filter dirty water instead of building an industrial waste-water processing plant. Read More...
Wind Power Technology; Thirty Years and Counting
Wind power, once considered an antique power source, has entered the 21st century and promises to provide a significant portion of the world's electricity. Read More...
Hydroponic City Farms: Close, Fresh and Expensive
Hydroponics -- growing food in water instead of earth -- is well-suited for urban farming. The newly picked and high-quality vegetables produced are mostly charming locavores who have the money to pay for it. But the possibilities for the future are large. Read More...
GM to Provide Chevy Dealers with Solar Canopies to Charge Volts
GM finally seems ready to support its electric car, providing solar-powered canopies to dealers for recharging stations. Read More...
The Perils of Plastic
There are now FIVE gigantic gyres of plastic trash rotating slowly and poisonously in our oceans, growing daily, possibly for centuries to come. This is a major call for intense recycling, as well as changing to biodegradable materials -- of which plastics could be one. Read More...
Urban Farms Hit the Roofs
With food prices rampant and with agribusiness, with its land-destroying farming methods adding to the problem, the idea that urban farming might in the long-term provide an alternative seems unlikely. But if economies of scale can be achieved, the sky (or the rooftop) may be the limit. Read More...