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NASA Creates Biosensor with Nanotechnology
Read the full story in Environmental Protection. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has developed a revolutionary nanotechnology-based biosensor that can detect trace amounts of specific bacteria, viruses, and parasites. This biosensor will be used to help prevent the spread … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Health, Nanotechnology, Research
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Big solar: Utility-scale power plants arise
Read the full story at News.com. When it comes to solar these days, it’s go big or go home. Utilities are being pushed to use more renewable energy, heating up the business of large-scale solar power. (Click here for related … Continue reading
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Encyclopedia of Earth's Climate Change Collection
From the Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Earth: I am pleased to announce the launch of the Climate Change Collection in the Encyclopedia of Earth: http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_Change_%28collection%29 The Collection is anchored by an electronic version of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Nobel … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Research, Schools, Web Resources
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The latest issue of GreenBuzz
The Xerox Drawing Board By Tilde Herrera http://greenbiz.com/podcast/2008/05/22/the-xerox-drawing-board A few years ago, Xerox began developing a self-erasing paper that can be used a number of times. Patricia Calkins of Xerox recently joined GreenBiz Radio to discuss the product’s creation, as … Continue reading
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How Green Is the College? Time the Showers
Read the full story in the New York Times. As part of a growing campus sustainability movement, students are reducing carbon emissions in their own lives.
Posted in Climate Change, Schools
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Closed EPA Libraries to Return in Lavatory-Sized Spaces
Read the press release from PEER. Ordered by Congress to re-open its shuttered libraries, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is grudgingly allocating only minimal space and resources, according to agency documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). … Continue reading
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Making Renewable, Carbon-Neutral Oil – From Algae
Read the full story in Wired. A San Diego start-up says it is using algae to make oil that can be refined into gasoline and other fuels that are both renewable and carbon-neutral, and it plans to produce 10,000 barrels … Continue reading
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Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green
Read the full story in Wired Magazine. Winning the war on global warming requires slaughtering some of environmentalism’s sacred cows. We can afford to ignore neither the carbon-free electricity supplied by nuclear energy nor the transformational potential of genetic engineering. … Continue reading
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The Sophie Prize
The Sophie Prize will be awarded to an individual or an organisation that in a pioneering or a particularly creative way, has pointed to alternatives to the present development and/or put such alternatives into practice. What kind of change of … Continue reading
Mid-Capacity Assistance Program
With Ford Foundation support, the National Forest Foundation (NFF) has established the Mid-Capacity Assistance Program for locally-based collaborative efforts (see text box below) working on natural resource issues on National Forests and Grasslands. Its purpose is to support relatively young … Continue reading