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Innovative idea out of MIT uses wind in unconventional way to create clean electricity
This MIT innovation uses an unconventional method for generating electricity from wind...
Toxic Teens: Common Cosmetics Chemicals Alter Hormones, Disrupt Puberty
Laboratory tests revealed that adolescent girls across America are contaminated with chemicals commonly used in cosmetics and body care products. The study of 20 teens found an average of 13 different hormone-altering chemicals in their bodies.
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Bush Plays the Joker in The Dark Knight Bailout (VIDEO)
A nice mash up of our joke of a President as the Joker from The Dark Knight. Mixes up the Bailout with Batman.
Bush Gets Schooled by the Senate On Environmental Policy
The Senate met today to review Bush’s environmental record. It was sparked by the EPA’s denial of a California waiver to regulate automotive greenhouse gases.
Forest Fire Warning System Derives Power from Trees
Trees: they’re good for more than just shade, harboring wildlife, and carbon storage. A new sensor system developed by Voltree Power uses the energy produced by trees to wirelessly transmit signals with information about forest fires.
Green On The Go: The Bento Lunch
Bento is the term for the Japanese lunch box, and is essentially the art of packing a really great lunch in small portable and reusable containers that is both practical for the environment, the wallet, the waist and aesthetically pleasing to boot...
House Stops Water Diversion from the Great Lakes
The House has blocked diverting any new water from the Great Lakes and forces bordering states to adhere to new conservation standards. In a 390-25 vote, the House approved a measure on Tuesday that will increase protection of the Great Lakes region.
Food Labels: Organic? Fair Trade? Certified Humane? What Does it All Mean?
Anyone not living under a rock in a remote, sandy location for the last five years has seen the prodigious rise to prominence of eco-labels at their local grocery store. You may not pay these little badges much attention, or if you do, you may be wondering what the heck they mean.
Synthetic Trees Could Be Environmental CO2 Scrubbers
Developed by Dr. Klaus Lackner these synthetic trees could be used as CO2 scrubbers cleaning our air. Using a chemical reaction to pull carbon dioxide from the air this technology could buy the world time to development and implement alternative energy sources...
Omnivore’s Dilemma Author and Monsanto CEO Chat with Google in the Defense of Food [VIDEO]
Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant and author Michael Pollan agree to disagree over the world’s food crisis…kinda.
Green book of the week: BUTT UGLY by Lynn Montgomery
Eco-Libris blog presents this week a triple green book: it has a green theme, it's printed on recycled paper (and much more!) and it also collaborates with Eco-Libris! And did we mention it has a great name?
Wake the F Up! Our Energy Policy is our Biggest Problem
Spending nearly a trillion dollars on renewable alternative energy could put us on a path to break our dependence on oil. Instead, Congress is going to try and bailout Wall Street by putting a band aid on a bullet hole.
