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in title, tags, annotations or urlIBM: Firms want to be responsible, but lack proper data - 0 views
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The IBM survey found that only 30 per cent of respondents' firms are collecting data frequently enough to make strategic decisions that address inefficiencies across eight major categories: carbon dioxide, water, waste, energy, sustainable procurement, labor standards, product composition and product lifecycle. Twenty-four percent collect this information monthly, while another 32 per cent do so no more than quarterly.
8 Ways to Green Your Battery Use: ENN - 0 views
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You may not realize how often you use batteries until you have to operate for a few hours without electricity. Batteries are great at keeping a charge in our mobile devices, but the components that help generate these charges wreak havoc in landfills. You can use Earth911 to find out where to recycle batteries for a number of devices, including your car and cell phone. Here's eight ways to optimize your battery use so you'll create less waste in the first place.
How to convert waste heat to electricity at the nanoscale - 0 views
Entrepreneur turns plastic waste into a way to save trees in Kenya - CSMonitor.com - 2 views
Home | PowerHouse Energy Group plc - 2 views
Everything You Know About Water Conservation Is Wrong | Environmental Policy | DISCOVER Magazine - 0 views
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I've been mindful of the amount of water I use when making a pot of coffee ever since learning that one-third of the tap water used for drinking in North America is actually used to brew our daily cups of joe-and that if each of us avoided wasting just one cupful of coffee a day, we could save enough water over the course of a year to provide two gallons to every one of the more than 1.1 billion people who don't have access to freshwater at all.
How to unplug yourself from the grid - 0 views
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"I HAVEN'T paid an electricity bill since 1970," says Richard Perez with noticeable glee. He can afford to be smug. While most of us fretted over soaring utility bills this year, he barely noticed. Nor is he particularly concerned about forecast price hikes of 30 to 50 per cent in 2009. Perez, a renewable-energy researcher at the University at Albany, State University of New York, lives "off-grid" - unconnected to the power grid and the water, gas and sewerage supplies that most of us rely on. He generates his own electricity, sources his own water and manages his own waste disposal - and prefers it that way. "There are times when the grid blacks out," he says. "I like the security of having my own electricity company."
Big LED Breakthrough at Purdue University Could Change the World : TreeHugger - 0 views
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The incandescent lightbulb that wastes 90% of the electricity as heat is dying, we all know that. But a new breakthrough in solid state lighting might also kill compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) faster than some expected. Scientists at Purdue University have figured out how to manufacture LED solid-state lights on regular metal-coated silicon wafers (more details below). What this means is: much lower costs.
New York Expands Renewable Net Metering and Green Roof Incentives - 0 views
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legislative package on August 5 that will encourage people throughout the state to install grid-connected solar and wind power systems, systems that generate power from farm wastes, and green roofs. Most of the bills relate to net metering, which allows homeowners and businesses to earn credit for any excess power that they feed back into the electric grid
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up to 2 megawatts in capacity, or equal in size to the customer's peak load, whichever is less, and increases the maximum solar power system size for residential customers to 25 kilowatts, up from 10 kilowatts
Recycling - from bin to bulb - 0 views
Could 'liquid wood' replace plastic? (csmonitor.com) - 1 views
Study says nuclear power isn't as "safe and clean" as Bush claims | Cleantech.com - 0 views
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Nuclear energy doesn’t live up to its billing as the “emission-free panacea,” says a study from Pennsylvania’s Clarion University.
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According to a study from Clarion University, Pennsylvania, USA each step in the current US process of building and running a nuclear plant, from mining the uranium ores to disposing of the wastes, contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Indeed, the article states that for nuclear power to be a feasible alternative energy source the entire process would need to be more efficient. This study gives a view on nuclear power which includes long standing ideals. The paper seems to offer an intermediate review on issues around the subject of nuclear, in the wider energy debate.
Electricity generated by bacteria? | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com - 0 views
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It will take years before bacteria can generate enough energy to generate electricity for transportation, homes or businesses, but researchers at the University of Minnesota studying bacteria have found a way to convert waste into electricity.
LED Breakthrough...2X More Efficient than ANYTHING | EcoGeek | Light, Leds, Watt, Comment, Produce - 0 views
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It seems that in the last decade scientists have switched goals from producing efficient LEDs to producing "natural light" LEDs. However, whenever this was achieved, significant efficiency sacrifices were made to enable experimentation to work. Through use of a nano-crystaline coating, it seems that scientists at Bilkent University, Turkey have succeeded in creating an LED that "produces attractive white light while wasting next-to-no electricity". The definition of attractive is that for each watt of light produced, around 300 lumens are visible to the human eye. This compares with fluorescents which produce around 80 lumens per watt, according to the article. There is however a barrier to market. This is because the nano-crystalline coating is expensive and apparently difficult to produce.
wattwatt - community for individuals interested in electrical energy efficiency - Maintenance - 0 views
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All industrial activities have considerable impact on the environment. Emision, wastes and use of energy result in pollution and depletion of natural resources. Thus, sustainable development stands for progress.Maintenance is an important part for improving life cycle, energy, safety and envionmental management. Maintenance to-day goes together with Quality Management, Environmental Management, Occupational Health and Safety Management and Social Responsibility. We have to develop Maintenance for energ-saving issues!
ASU Researchers Use Bacteria To Generate Electricity - Ecofriend - 0 views
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Researchers at the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State University have come up with an alternative way of generating electricity. In a new study featured in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, lead author Andrew Kato Marcus and colleagues César Torres and Bruce RittmannThey mentioned that they are using the tiniest organisms on the planet—bacteria—for this purpose. They added that they are looking forward to commercialization of a promising microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology. The microbial fuel cell will generate electrical energy by using any kind of waste, such as sewage or pig manure.
FOXNews.com - Bacteria Used to Generate Hydrogen From Garbage - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News - 1 views
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All kinds of biodegradable garbage — from sewage to leftover food — could yield valuable hydrogen fuel, an alternative to fossil fuels, with the aid of microbes cultivated in special reactors.
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