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Helpful Gardener
The Helpful Gardener web site has excellent information on all aspects of gardening, including organic gardening and gardening with native plants. You can also ask questions in the Garden Forum.
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Growing a Garden of Future Environmental Leaders – 54 Students Receive EPA Research Fellowships
How do you grow future leaders to develop sustainable energy solutions for America? Start with the sun and the wind. That’s what EPA’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grantee Matthias Fripp is doing at the University of California at Berkeley … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, Research, Schools
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College Sustainability Report Card
Via the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. The Sustainable Endowments Institute has launched an interactive website for the newly released College Sustainability Report Card 2009. The new website provides sustainability profiles and grades from the Report … Continue reading
Posted in Schools, Sustainability, Web Resources
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October 2008 issue of Biomass Magazine
The October 2008 issue of Biomass Magazine is now available. Highlights include: Powerful Relationships-It’s the Talk of Tualco Valley Building Better Energy Crops Trash Tactics in Iraq Giving Back Waste Not, Want Not Power and Fuel From Plastic Wastes Determining … Continue reading
Posted in Biofuels, Biomass
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AT&T Awards Annual Environmental Fellowship Grants
Read the press release. AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) today announced the 2008 recipients of fellowship grants through the company’s Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship program. Grants totaling $75,000 have been awarded to three academic research teams. AT&T has a long history … Continue reading
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The latest issue of GreenBuzz
For a full-color, graphic version of this newsletter, go to http://greenbiz.com/enewsletter. Can You Make a Green Product in a Gray Company? Part 2 By Sarah Fister Gale http://www.greenbiz.com/podcast/2008/09/25/can-you-make-a-green-product-a-gray-company-part-2 The second half of this two-part podcast series with Jim Hartzfeld of … Continue reading
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New Route to Hydrocarbon Biofuels
Read the full story in Technology Review. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a simple, two-step chemical process to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon fuels. The compounds created during the process could also be used to make other … Continue reading
Posted in Biofuels, Plastics, Research
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Strategies for the Energy Crisis
Read the full story in Technology Review. After nearly 30 years at Caltech as a professor of theoretical physics and, eventually, provost, Steven Koonin took a leave of absence in 2004 to become BP’s chief scientist. After a year of … Continue reading
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Purifying Water with Nano-particles
Read the full story in Technology Review. Adding nanoparticles to a water purifying membrane can double its efficiency, according to a startup company based in Los Angeles. With global water usage on the increase and fresh water in limited supply, … Continue reading
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New from the GAO
Carbon Offsets: The U.S. Voluntary Market Is Growing, but Quality Assurance Poses Challenges for Market Participants. GAO-08-1048, August 29. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1048 Highlights – http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081048high.pdf Climate Change: Federal Actions Will Greatly Affect the Viability of Carbon Capture and Storage As a Key … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Publications
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