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The Green Chemistry Network & Consumer Project

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

As I mentioned, I’m not the one in the household with the nanotech expertise. Jon’s got a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry.  He translates everything for me, most of the time. However, I will just throw in that I DID actually win 1st in state when I was in I think 8th grade for my science [...]

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The Green Chemistry Institute

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

My fiance is in the world of nanotech, so we have daily conversations about green chemistry - a lot of the conversations spent with him explaining chemistry concepts and principles to me, as I’m the layperson here. My understanding of internet technologies just does not in any way shape or form really apply here, unfortunately.  [...]

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Cleanproduction.org

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Finally - I found a resource dedicated to getting companies to design products and manufacturing processes in harmony with natural ecological cycles.
Clean Production Action aims to eliminate toxic wastes and inputs and promotes the sustainable use of renewable energy and materials. The organization’s mission is to partner with organizations to hasten this transition. CPA [...]

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Generating Energy With Every Step…? Yup. That’s the Idea…

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Crowd Power: The Latest In Renewable Energy

June 27, 2006 12:17 PM, Treehugger - Justin Thomas, Virginia

Vibrations from passing trucks, the rumbling of speeding trains and even the footfall of busy city commuters could be captured and converted into energy to light walkways and buildings, engineers say. [...]

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From BBC Scotland…Invisible Heating Systems

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Now if we had just done this/would just do this with the miles and miles and miles of roadways we have in the U.S….realizing that to do this, one has to tear up a lot of roads in the process and repave…which doesn’t make sense, except where there are roadways already slotted for repaving…
Treehugger posted [...]

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Taking Stock of Water Technologies

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Well, I’ve spent the last week plus utterly buried. Having said this, I haven’t taken my eye off the ball. I’ve just been busy doing things like helping to write business plans, working on client calls, dealing with wedding stuff, and entertaining visiting relatives.
Today, I thought I’d do a little background checking on some of [...]

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If Your Shirt Is Made Of Corn Fiber, Forget About Using an Iron Making Eco-Friendly Clothes Sturdy Wears on Industry; The Cotton-Banana Blend

Monday, June 19th, 2006

VANESSA O’CONNELL has put together a very interesting article for the WSJ.  (June 15, 2006). Finally, we’re getting some more ink on new ‘green’ fabric ‘technologies’, thanks to this kind of a post.  My next question is what else is Vanessa writing about/researching? That would be interesting to know.  If you’d like to read the [...]

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Take the Green Stock Challenge

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

http://www.greentechinvestor.com/stock_list.aspx
I’m definitely going to try it!  
These company lists are a good way to educate yourself about who’s doing what in the world of renewable energy and environmentally focused stuff.
http://www.environmentstocks.com/Enviro_Stocks/Stock_List.asp 
http://www.renewableenergystocks.com/Companies/RenewableEnergy/Stock_List.asp 
 

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Water Environment Federation

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

In my quest for more information on the water industry  -water technologies, waste water management, and the like, I came upon the Water Environment Federation not too long ago - www.wef.org - and a slew of useful information, which I’ve pulled from their site for your reading pleasure:
 WEF Fact Sheets
Information on [...]

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Largest Solar Powerplant Gets Off The Ground

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Construction on World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Starts in Southern Portugal June 07, 2006 — By Associated Press [...]

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And the winners are…(World Environment Day 2006 International Children’s Painting Competition)

Monday, June 5th, 2006

http://www.unep.org/Tunza/paintcomp/15Winners/

If this doesn’t get you, I don’t know what will. These are young children that are drawing such astute pictures.  Take a look. This is incredible artwork.  

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World Environment Day - Count Your Blessings, and Do Something For the Environment Today!

Monday, June 5th, 2006

http://www.unep.org/wed/2006/english/

 
World Environment Day, commemorated each year on 5 June, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.

© Yann Arthus-Bertrand /ALTITUDE

The World Environment Day theme selected for 2006 is [...]

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Recycling CO2 into BioFuel…

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

NRG Energy, Inc. has formed a joint initiative with GreenFuel Technologies Corporation (GreenFuel) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to study carbon dioxide (CO2) recycling. The technology takes the flue gas of a power plant and utilizes GreenFuel’s innovative, algae-bioreactor technology [...]

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Addressing Water Scarcity

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

From Cleanedge news…
Address Water Scarcity, Quality Issues Now, Says New Report June 1, 2006 Source: Clean Edge News
Now is the time to address the devastating effects of increasing water scarcity and declining water quality around the world, according to a recently released white paper written jointly [...]

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Renewable Energy Basics from the Union of Concerned Scientists

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/renewable_energy_basics/

Contents
How They Work
Energy 101: Take a tour
How Wind Energy Works
How Solar Energy Works [...]

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California gets its own Clean Tech Open

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

www.cacleantechopen.com. Ok, so you didn’t realize this competition is open to anyone, nationwide…however, the idea behind the branding of this is superb. Now we need to get a politician in CA to step up and make sure they take ownership of this for CA, and keep it going well beyond 2006…
Background information:
The California Clean [...]

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Have a Green Summer From Google

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

http://services.google.com/earth/green/.  Ooh, this is good. Google launches content play around ‘green’…not sure what the strategy is here, but if they wanted to, Google could hypothetically decide they want to own the category of ‘green’, do a bunch of partnerships with green pubs, both those online and off, green/hybrid automakers, as well as online info sources [...]

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An Inconvenient Truth

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

Jon and I went to see "An Inconvenient Truth" on Friday night, then went to the afterparty at the Embarcadero bar it was being held at in SF.  If you haven’t seen the movie, you need to go. It’s articulate; it’s personal (Gore is as we’ve never seen him in this movie), and more than [...]

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On tomatos in a bag…

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

Most wouldn’t parallel this product to the way technologies are delivered to consumers, but for the average consumer, it’s an almost ideal equivalent to what they want in technologies - and that includes technologies that can provide sustainble returns to the environment through use.  http://www.3rliving.com/product_p/gbtom.htm. This tomato in a bag represents the ‘wireless, just plug [...]

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