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Articles tagged "green"
Bacteria Leads the Way to Ultra-Efficient and Affordable Solar Energy
Solar energy is sort of a silly challenge, not because it's not important or interesting even innovative. It's simply silly that it's so challenging.
America Is Building and Buying More Fuel Efficient Cars Than Ever Before
America's gas guzzlers are finally disappearing.
Romney's Green Energy Claims Were Completely Wrong, But That Hardly Matters
Mitt Romney made some interesting energy statements in the first debate, but the one that’s gotten the most props for its epic zinger status was his claim that “half” of $90 billion dollars spent by the Obama administration on clean-energy projects w…
The Navy Wants to Make Jet Fuel Out of Seawater
The U.S. Navy wasn't kidding when they said they wanted to transition their fleet on to a more sustainable fuel model. The announcement came earlier this summer when top brass finally came to the realization that it didn't make great sense to continu…
In Apple's World, Thin Is More Important Than Green
Apple has pulled all of its computer-y things (desktops, laptops, monitors) from the EPEAT certification program, flipping the bird to an EPA-backed, internationally-supported standard that is designed to mitigate the environmental damage and social
Here is an Entire Rap Video About Rooftop Solar Power
By and large, the hip hop community has remained curiously silent on the topic of rooftop solar installation. This is a shame. Fortunately, that coal-powered silence is about to be broken. I give you Sustainable John, and his new eco-rap video "Occup…
It's Easy to Say it's Easy Being Green: David Owen's "The Conundrum"
Like a green Gladwell or Taleb, the writer David Owen loves unintuitive ideas about the environment (the greenest place in the U.S. isn't Portland "but New York City":http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1925797,00.html, traffic "can be a goo…
Why We Should Ship Our Electronic "Waste" to China and Africa
About ten years ago, a small non-governmental organization in Seattle took film of a primitive looking scrap operation in Guiyu, China. They later got CBS's "60 Minutes":http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/06/60minutes/main4579229.shtml to follow…
