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In a changing climate, cities worsen water quality
Read the full story in Environmental Science and Technology. A new study of more than 1000 Maryland streams finds that as climate patterns change, urban sprawl can pollute water with more nitrate than previously thought.
Posted in Climate Change, Research
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Argonne's "Omnivorous Engine"; Baselining Gasoline, Ethanol and Butanol
Read the full post at Green Car Congress. Among the projects of Argonne National Laboratory’s Transportation Technology R&D Center is the development of the “omnivorous engine“. The project seeks to combine in-cylinder measurement technology and advanced controls to optimize spark … Continue reading
Posted in Biofuels, Research, Transportation
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FAO introduces new global soil database: allows analysis of carbon sequestration and biochar potential
Read the full story at Biopact. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) introduces a new database on the world’s soils which improves knowledge of the current and future land productivity as well as the present carbon storage and carbon sequestration … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Research, Web Resources
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Bringing biodiesel to light
Read the full story at Seacoastonline.com. It all begins one municipality, one school district at a time. That’s the theory behind Green Start, a new statewide nonprofit organization based in Portsmouth that is working to make biodiesel for vehicles so … Continue reading
Posted in Biofuels, Schools
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Murphy lawyer filling truck with homemade biodiesel
Read the full story in the Dallas Morning News. John Oldner drives his diesel truck daily, but he hasn’t stopped at a commercial service station in more than a year. He powers his pickup with used cooking oil that is … Continue reading
Posted in Biofuels, Green Lifestyle
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San Diego station is in the fast lane with alternative fuels
Read the full story in the Los Angeles Times. With his blue button-down shirt, neat khaki pants and rimless glasses, Mike Lewis doesn’t look like much of an evangelist. But that’s what he is: an advocate for alternative fuels — … Continue reading
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Hospital installs panels
Read the full story in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Standing atop the four-story hospital, bathed in sunlight and surrounded by power-soaking crystalline silicon panels, Larry Barrett said it felt good to be first.
Posted in Hospitals, Solar Energy
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There's more than one green hospital
Read the full story in the Tallahassee Democrat. Last Thursday’s editorial (“Greening TMH: Hospital promotes healthy environment, business”) missed an opportunity to reveal changes being made by the health-care industry related to environmental sensitivity. The focus was only on TMH. … Continue reading
Posted in Hospitals
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Combining coal and biomass in co-gasification
Via DOE Pulse. A longer description of the research is available in a press release. Researchers at DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory are studying the co-gasification process in which various types of coal and biomass are combined and converted into … Continue reading
Posted in Biomass
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Tribe earns return on wind investment
Read the full story in Sustainable Industries Journal. What goes around, comes around, when the wind blows. An investment made in 2004 on what was then a relatively unknown technology and company is now beginning to pay off for an … Continue reading
Posted in Tribal/First Nations, Wind Energy
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