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Wild Birds & Farmed Fish — a Sustainable Combination
Veta La Palma in Spain is a fish farm where the fish live in freshened sea water and birds eat (some of) the fish. Read how a commercial outfit recreated a wildlife habitat and is profitably growing better and healthier fish because of it. Read More...
Big Fuel Cell Takes 500-Unit New Haven Condo Off the Grid
Bruce Decker, the developer of a 360 State Street in New Haven, has provided it with a 400KW fuel cell that will light and heat the building, as well as provide hot water and warm the swimming pool, taking it off the grid. It's the first fuel cell for a large US residential building. Read More...
No Solar, No Wind, but 90% Less Energy Use for this English House
An English architect has created a genuine "passivhous," using conventional building methods like cavity wall construction. At current exchange rates, the owner will spend a little over $100 a year to heat and cool this house. Read More...
Getting the Lead Out: We Can Reduce Our Toxic Burden
Because of this doctor's work in the 1970's, the percentage of children aged 1 to 5 with what the CDC considers dangerously high levels of lead in their blood has declined from 77.8 percent to 1.6 percent. We can only hope that 40 years from now, we'll see other chemicals in similar decline. Read More...
Water Wars: Agriculture vs Hydropower; India vs Pakistan
If you question Pakistan's belligerence against India, look at how India is treating their joint water sources. It's a story that's repeating around the world. Read More...
The Whole-Building Approach for the World’s Tallest
This article in the Rocky Mountain Institute's journal really spells out how the best green building approach -- the one that also yields the greatest cost savings -- is the integrated one, where all a building's systems are taken into account before the retrofit starts. Read More...
Saving Energy by Saving Water: A Hidden Imperative
This story in the NY Times spells out the energy spent through water use, and the enormous potential, with double benefits, of bringing water-use down. Read More...