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Puertollano’s wrenching fall points to the delicate policy calculations needed to stimulate nascent solar industries and create a stable green industry.
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Images from Sanctuary Magazine, Rachel Pilgrim & Andrew LeckySo many of the green houses we see are single family, alone in the country, but there are more and more developers and builders trying to build green communities. On Munro court in the mining town of Castlemaine, outside of Victoria, Australia, eight lovely little modern houses have been designed by Robyn Gibson ofLifehouse design.None are over 1500 square feet, and it is sort of a cooperative, sharing responsibility for the communal vegetable gardens, emptying the compost and feeding the “chooks” [sic]

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Japan, South Korea and China are investing about $9 billion this year in infrastructure and information technology to make electricity networks more efficient, creating lucrative opportunities for niche technology and equipment providers.
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NoMix Toilet. Photo: FlickrTechnological Innovations in the Bathroom? You Bet!Being green is all about solving problems and grabbing overlooked opportunities. It turns out that there’s such a double-win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had “NoMix” toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity),andwe could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels). So what’s stopping us from going NoMix?…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Puertollano’s wrenching fall points to the delicate policy calculations needed to stimulate nascent solar industries and create a stable green industry.
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Designers, engineers, inventors, and crafty gadgeteers, it’s time to get the brain juices percolating and submit for the 2010James Dyson Award. The competition is put up by the James Dyson Foundation, founded by the British inventor responsible for the now-iconicDyson vacuum cleaners, theAirbladehand dryer,Air Multip…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Japan, South Korea and China are investing about $9 billion this year in infrastructure and information technology to make electricity networks more efficient, creating lucrative opportunities for niche technology and equipment providers.
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Image: KnossosInduction Lights Are Close, But No CigarMost people who have been following lighting tech seem to be convinced that light-emitting diode (LED) lights are the future, but it’s always good to see new research being done on them. The more sure we are that they’re the way to go, the better. It always sucks to invest a lot of time and money into something only to later realize that it’s not nearly as good as we were first led to believe (*cough* corn ethanol *cough*). Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have conducted the first cradle-to-grave assessment of LED streetlights, and the…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Puertollano’s wrenching fall points to the delicate policy calculations needed to stimulate nascent solar industries and create a stable green industry.
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Image: KnossosInduction Lights Are Close, But No CigarMost people who have been following lighting tech seem to be convinced that light-emitting diode (LED) lights are the future, but it’s always good to see new research being done on them. The more sure we are that they’re the way to go, the better. It always sucks to invest a lot of time and money into something only to later realize that it’s not nearly as good as we were first led to believe (*cough* corn ethanol *cough*). Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have conducted the first cradle-to-grave assessment of LED streetlights, and the…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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