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James Hannemann

http://clean-water.uwex.edu/pubs/pdf/toolkit.pdf - 0 views

clean-water.uwex.edu/...toolkit.pdf

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  • James Hannemann on 17 Apr 13
     
    This is a crucial time for people to rethink how we meet our needs today to help to ensure a desirable future for following generations. Local government officials must play their part in reinventing our institutions to help communities and residents stay healthy and whole. This is because we have entered an era where human generated pressures on the natural world are unprecedented and threaten our current way of life. A few examples include depletion of non-renewable resources - 65% of U.S. oil is gone and the world is at or past peak oil; insufficient drinking water for two thirds of the world's population; consumption of land and loss of topsoil at unsustainable rates; projected loss of 90% of the world's fisheries by 2048; extinction of a distinct species of plant or animal, on average, every 20 minutes (qualifying the present period as one of the six great periods of mass extinction in the history of Earth1); and the presence of 250 persistent toxic chemicals not known before 1945, many of which are now found in human tissues.
Joe ONeill

Vodafone's New Energy-Generating Sleeping Bag Charges Your Phone as You Sleep Read mor... - 0 views

http://inhabitat.com/vodafones-new-energy-generating-sleeping-bag-can-charge-your-phone-as-you-sleep/ Ok, so I find this a bit hilarious. Nevertheless, this is a sustainably designed sleeping bag ...

technology green design products cell phone sleeping bag

started by Joe ONeill on 13 Jun 13 no follow-up yet
ghiser1

Wind Power - 1 views

Here is an article on wind power. It discusses the cost effectiveness and lack of harmful pollutants that other forms of energy produce. Many other countries are already on board with this and ut...

green sustainability energy design technology

started by ghiser1 on 23 Apr 15 no follow-up yet
pauline hannemann

Emerald Earth Sanctuary Photos - 1 views

www.emeraldearth.org/photogallery_bldg.html

building

shared by pauline hannemann on 24 Mar 13 - No Cached
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  • pauline hannemann on 24 Mar 13
     
    This is the community that we first learned how to build with COB and Strawbale. Some of the pictures are of houses and structures that we helped build. Most of the materials that were not coming directly from the the earth came from a very generous dumps...windows, doors etc..one mans junk is another's treasure! The houses were all built for under 20k.
James Hannemann

http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/pdf/partnership_year1.pdf - 0 views

www.epa.gov/...partnership_year1.pdf

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  • James Hannemann on 17 Apr 13
     
    One of our country's most pressing goals is to build an economy that provides good jobs now-and that creates a strong foundation for enduring prosperity. To accelerate job growth for this and future generations, that foundation must be built with expanded housing and transportation choices, greater energy independence, and better protection for our clean air and water.
Anna Hakim

Solar Cookers International - 1 views

www.solarcookers.org

green sustainability energy design

shared by Anna Hakim on 11 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Anna Hakim on 11 Mar 14
     
    I think this non-profit is pretty cool. They have drastically improved the lives of African women who used to risk their lives and waste many days looking for firewood or burning feces to cook, and so has the Aid For Africa, http://www.aidforafrica.org/member-charities/solar-cookers-international/ Solar cookers could also be built into the side of a home and used indoors! I am thinking of maybe getting or building one for my home to reduce our use of propane. We are mainly solar-powered but we have a gas range and a back up generator that run on propane and I really dislike that. This solar cooker could really help us out though there is a lot that it can't do. I still think it is interesting and worth looking into. Perhaps it is something that more of us could use.
Colin Murray

Panama canal upgrade and bubbles set to transform ships - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...ppery-ships-and-cramped-canals

shared by Colin Murray on 10 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Colin Murray on 10 Dec 12
     
    Look at recent transportation technology in the shipping field. Panama's Canal is expanding, resulting in a new generation of Post-Manamax sized shipping vessels. These ships are utilizing new technology to increase energy efficiency and long haul costs.
Colin Murray

Solar Updraft Towers Generate Mega Power - 0 views

www.solaripedia.com/...r_updraft_tower_schematic.html

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  • Colin Murray on 10 Dec 12
     
    An Australian company has proposed a massive non-polluting power plant in Arizona. Utilizing a technology first implemented in 1903, this project would include building the world's second tallest structure. In essence, it's a massive conical greenhouse, funneling its rising heated air through power producing turbines.
Joe ONeill

Tafline Laylin Grand Cancun: Offshore Eco Island Cleans Up the Ocean While Generating E... - 0 views

http://inhabitat.com/grand-cancun-clean-powered-marine-platform-on-stilts-cleans-up-the-oceans-near-cancun/ Richard Moreta Castillo has proposed plans to build an eco-friendly resort-like structur...

green building architecture design sustainability

started by Joe ONeill on 10 Jun 13 no follow-up yet
Joe ONeill

The SolePower Harvests Energy from Walking to Charge Your Gadgets Read more: The SoleP... - 0 views

http://inhabitat.com/the-solepower-harvests-energy-from-walking-to-charge-your-gadgets/ According to Inhabitat, a new technology allows walkers to generate energy through a energy-storing shoe sol...

energy green shoe sole battery sustainability walking

started by Joe ONeill on 19 Jun 13 no follow-up yet
Don Asquith

http://www.agc.org/cs/gcep - 1 views

Associated general Contractors offers green construction courses and more

green building architecture

started by Don Asquith on 20 Jun 13 no follow-up yet
James Hannemann

Off-the-grid communities: 5 places carving a sustainable path | MNN - Mother Nature Net... - 0 views

www.mnn.com/...ces-carving-a-sustainable-path

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  • Some off-the-grid communities are little more than subdivisions beyond the reach of any power company, where homeowners fend for themselves. Some off-the-grid communities take the intentional community approach, a gathering of like-minded residents living in a cooperative manner (and if you think that sounds like a commune, well, you’d be right).
  • Emerald Earth This intentional community on 189 acres Mendocino County near Boonville, Calif., was founded in 1989. The dozen or so people living here share a common house with a main kitchen, eating and meeting areas and shower. There is also a bathhouse/greenhouse with a sauna, showers and garden greenhouse. There are four small cabins heated by passive solar and wood stoves. Solar panels and a gas generator provide electricity. Use of composting outhouses means there is no need for a septic system.
  • Joe ONeill on 17 Jun 13
     
    I feel like such communities are going to be a necessary and vital part of the future. I wonder if everyone will be living in communities like these in say 100 years?
pauline hannemann

Ambitious solar energy system in Nevada reaches new milestone - 1 views

www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/...859986

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  • Molten salt is used as an energy transfer and distribution medium for the project. The concentrated sunlight is used to heat the molten salt from 500 degrees Fahrenheit to more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The salt then moves through a series of alloy tubes and is used to set water supplies to boil. The steam created is used to power turbines that generate electrical power. SolarReserve notes that this is one of the most efficient ways to make use of solar energy.
  • pauline hannemann on 15 Apr 13
     
    I was not aware of this effort but found it interesting. Let me know what you think!
lsutter888

A small New England college goes 100 percent solar - 0 views

www.csmonitor.com/...college-goes-100-percent-solar

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  • lsutter888 on 30 Nov 16
     
    Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts will be the first residential college to generate 100 percent of its electricity from solar panels. The site explains how the students have been involved from the start of the solar project. Inspirational site for solar power and sustainability followers.
seashorerob

Don't feed the monster - 3 views

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-trash-monster-project-sustainability-effort-alexander-nason?trk=hp-feed-article-title-like This is a fantastic idea to get people thinking about the waste they ge...

sustainability green energy design recycling food

started by seashorerob on 19 Apr 16 no follow-up yet
jefffinck

Siting analysis of farm-based centralized anaerobic digester systems for distributed ge... - 0 views

www.sciencedirect.com.silk.library.umass.edu/...S0961953405000164

green sustainability energy technology recycling

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  • jefffinck on 21 Apr 16
     
    This paper addresses anaerobic digesters (ADs) installations on livestock farms to use animal manure as a biomass resource for both economic value and environmental benefit. Capturing biogas created naturally from animal waste before it escapes to do harm to the environment and using the gas as a fuel to produce electric power. Either to be used to power the farm itself or integrated into the local electric grid.
Rey WR

Siemens Sustainable Cities - 0 views

www.usa.siemens.com/sustainable-cities

building sustainability technology

shared by Rey WR on 19 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Rey WR on 19 Sep 13
     
    Important in the context of power generation and technology i.e. Smart Cities
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