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By NunoXEI • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Oh Dubai, Dubai–the amazing architectural innovations continue! This time I came across some news about a carbon-neutral, solar-powered futurist design that can house one million people. The design is modeled after the ancient pyramids of old and is being debuted in October at the Cityscape Dubai, the largest business-to-business real estate investment exhibition. (ecoworldly.com)
It seems [...]
By NunoXEI • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Last week I posted news concerning an alternative energy source derived from human waste–and more particularly our “biosolids”. This has lead, quite randomly and conveniently to another bit of waste-to-energy news I’ve come across. If you thought making energy out of crap was exciting, how about making gasoline out of varied waste products?
An agreement between [...]
By NunoXEI • Sep 12th, 2008 • Category: Blog
San Antonio unveiled a deal on Tuesday that will make it the first U.S. city to harvest methane gas from human waste on a commercial scale and turn it into clean-burning fuel. (Reuters.com)
How exactly? Well, you create a way to gather a city population’s feces–and ANY city has an abundance of this potty-matter the industry [...]
By NunoXEI • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Alexis Madrigal Email, Wired–Swiss researcher Thomas Hinderling wants to build solar islands several miles across that he claims can produce hundreds of megawatts of relatively inexpensive power. Solar thermal plants are emerging as a leading alternative to fossil fuel power plants for future energy generation.
By NunoXEI • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Reuters, ENN–Protesters failed on Tuesday to stop the controversial cull of hundreds of kangaroos on a military base near the Australian capital, Canberra, which animal rights activists had branded as “barbaric”. Military says they would all have starved had not 400 of them been killed.
By NunoXEI • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Colin Beavan, No Impact Man–Designers of truly sustainable products and systems must ask, not just whether the product or system has the lowest possible energy and materials input, but also whether the use of those valuable ecological resources can be justified in terms of quality of life improvement.
By NunoXEI • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Josh Hill, The Daily Galaxy–Together with Britain’s environment ministry and the country’s Meteorological Office, Google have created a new animated map that layers over their Google Earth program to illustrate the potential impact of global climate change over the next century.
By NunoXEI • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Bridgette Steffen, Inhabitat–LA-based Sustainable Pet Design combines green design, healthy living, non-toxic paints and your pet to create this sustainable Greenrrroof Animal House. Now man’s best friend will feel confident that his home has a low environmental impact.
By NunoXEI • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog
UN Environment Programme, ENN–An unprecedented 1.5 million Chinese children have participated in a painting competition on the topic of climate change, in a sign of the country’s growing awareness of environmental issues. The children collectively submited 200,000 paintings.
By NunoXEI • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Reuters, ENN–Greenpeace and more than 100 other environmental groups denounced projects for burying industrial greenhouse gases on Monday, exposing splits in the green movement about whether such schemes can slow global warming.
