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I just payed the annual fees on this site and realize that I haven’t posted anything in six months. Not a great record to have. Yesterday I signed up for the Thing-a-day.com challenge. I don’t know for sure what I’ll make every day, but I’m pretty sure that today I will make bread. We need it [...] 
There’s a new solar power plant up and running in Nevada. It’s a solar thermal plant rather than a photo-voltaic plant. It’s currently supplying power to 15,000 homes while I write this. via Treehugger Also, a brand new plant in Rwanda will supply 250 kilowatts of power to the country happens to be the biggest solar plant [...]
Tonight Nova had the best program I’ve seen on solar energy. Check your local listings at pbs.org 
In Ohio, one precinct is experimenting with a tiny police dog, half chihuaha and half rat terrier. This little pup, who weighs just 6 pounds, is being trained to sniff out drugs. The town has been taken with the pup who rides around with the sheriff on his motorcycle while wearing tiny goggles; she was [...] Treehugger is always a good place to keep up with what’s going on with the environment. Here are a few good recent stories. ReBranding services The idea of branding products has been related to selling a lifestyle for a long time now, but branding has just recently been turned to changing lifestyles in earnest. Scotland’s roads [...] Honey We’re Killing the Kids is a new reality tv show that airs on TLC. Dr. Lisa Hark takes on a unhealthy family in each show. After a myriad of tests, Dr. Hark finds that the family in the first episode is suffering from a seriously unhealthy life style. Through special computer technology which [...] Michael Crichton has a good Op-ed in the New York Times this week about patent law. A lot of us who are fans of technology and use the internet know that patent procedures in the U.S. are too lax in what they allow to be patented, but Michael Crichton breaks it down so that anyone [...] I couldn’t watch the State of the Union Address this week, but I did hear about our suddenly apparent addiction to oil. Worldchanging has an article on Flex Fuels which are being advertised on the other big television event of the week. During the Super Bowl, GM is going to advertise it’s new Flex Fuel [...] Treehugger finds for us the great news of the week. Sweden, Home of Ikea and Volvo has set forth actual plans to make the entire country free of fossil fuel. Click the link for the details. Treehugger: Sweden Raises The Renewable Energy Bar In terms of construction, embodied energy is the amount of energy required to create, and transport any component to the worksite, and then assemble it there. It can be measured in calories, BTUs, whatever. but when trying to minimize the total impact on the environment, embodied energy is a big thing to think about. You can [...] |
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