It’s Summer. The fair’s in town. It’s going green and Minnesota is leading the charge with The Eco Experience Exhibit. Why make a big to-do about a seemingly small feat? Because in one turn-o-the-wheel, nearly 500,000 people will be exposed to a varied and diverse weekend event calendar, addressing everything from alternative energies, personal diet, childrens [...]
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In a progressive effort to educate students in environmental awareness, several hundred K-8 schools are partaking in the first annual “National Green Week.” The Green Education Foundation has created a curriculum that will have children focus on waste reduction, environmental cause & effect, and community involvement. The by-product of hundreds of thousands of young people across [...] If you’ve seen Shaun White’s porcelain punim staring at you from a newsstand lately, it may be from atop the latest version of Fast Company. It features an interesting article that lists what they see as the 10 most promising green jobs of the decade. It’s an interesting mix of traditionally blue and white collar jobs: Farmer, [...] A middle school in Medford, Massachusetts recently finished installing a wind turbine on its campus. The single 100kw wind turbine will offset about ten percent of the school’s energy and save the city about $25,000 each year. While the turbine project cost upwards of $650,000, the school was able to pay for it through fund raising efforts of the Medford Clean Energy Committee and a number of grants from different nonprofits (a few that required the school provide education around alternative energy and sustainable resources). [...] Masdar City, Abu Dhabi’s amazing, solar-powered, futuristic new city is planning on installing PRT’s (Personalized Rapid Transits). These will be computer controlled little pods that will zip you exactly where you want to go.
Yes, it’s life imitating art once again. This second picture is of course from Total Recall, which ironically starred the present [...] |
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