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Un-Sustainy Secrets. Coal Ash

Nuclear energy may not be so bad after all.  That’s right.  As we wait for water, solar, and wind industries to take advantage of their recent growth opportunities and achieve necessary mass-output requirements; perhaps we should revisit our present situation.  This would be burning coal in the multi-billions of tons, and it all has to go [...]

“I think about Greensburg, Kansas”: America’s Masdar City

As a dutiful Obamaphile, my ear was glued to his address on Tuesday night to the joint members of Congress. It was perhaps the most sustainy speech ever given by an American president, producing huge news for the renewable energy industry and giant leap towards a federal cap-and-trade system. There was also pointed mention [...]

$20 million in change…

Recycled Piggy Bank

Don’t you love when the government does something right?  The California Department of Conservation just gave away $20 million from unclaimed recycled CRV funds (ya know, that weird symbol on your glass Guayaki bottle).  These mega-bucks went to companies statewide that demonstrate strong recycling development & expansion efforts.  At no-cost to [...]

Bug Zappers for Change

The "Fly-paper Robotic Clock"

Three students in England have developed a series of amazingly bizarre, beautiful and functional robots that use household pets for powering lights, clocks and robotic arms. The core of these little buggers is a microbial fuel cell kit, developed by the National Centre for Biotechnology Education in Reading, England. It works like [...]

Who (un)Killed The Electric Car

Better Place has been in the news quite a bit recently, after signing contracts with Israel, Cananda and Hawaii, who will join Denmark and the San Francisco with ambitions plans to build electric car infrastructures. The crux of the Better World plan is that it tackles the chicken and egg problem of alternate transportation [...]