Posted in Green Movement on Jan 25th, 2010
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Krista and Micah Fuerst were looking near here to buy their first place together, and had narrowed it down to two houses: One built 25 years ago of standard materials, the other brand new and built to strict energy efficiency standards. [More]
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Posted in Green Movement on Jan 20th, 2010
A new biofuels project at Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Institute of Science and Technology will unite Boeing , Honeywell and others in search of a system to produce fuel and other useful products from biomass and seawater.
The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Project is focused on integrating aquaculture and farming to [...]
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Posted in Green Movement on Jan 8th, 2010
Americans scrapped 4 million more cars and trucks last year than they purchased, the first significant drop in the U.S. auto fleet in more than four decades, according to a new report.
The United States scrapped 14 million vehicles last year while buying only 10 million new ones, dropping the nation’s fleet from an [...]
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Posted in Green Movement on Dec 14th, 2009
COPENHAGEN–U.S. forests and soils store some 90 billion metric tons of carbon, or 50 years worth of present U.S. emissions from fossil fuels , according to a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey. As negotiators here at the United Nations’ climate summit continue to struggle to draft a global agreement to cut [...]
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