All Entries in the "Green Energy" Category
Federal Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency
Many people would like to be more energy efficient and go green with their home energy use and appliances. Solar panels and solar powered water heaters are a great way of going green but at this point can be costly. Here is the new program to accumulate federal tax credits by greening up your home and saving money on your utilities.[...]
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ENRIN – Capacity Building
Central & Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia
Policy development and planning for sustainable development and coherent environmental management demands information, national data and knowledge of the state of the environment. As assessments and analyses become multi-sectoral, the degree of complexity generates the need for integrated information. These products in turn require organizational [...]
Gribble: Crustacean Biofuel In Your Gas Tank
The Gribble, a small crustacean responsible for nothing more than eating piers below the water table all over the world, has found a new job in the biofuel industry. [...]
Adding Green Features To Your Home Will Increase Your Equity
In today’s economy, holding on to your home’s equity is a task that is not easily done. However there are some green projects you can do around your home that will increase your equity and make your home desirable to others. So, if you are selling your home and not getting many results, greening up [...]
T. Boone Pickens Plan For Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs)
Billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens has a plan to reduce U.S. reliance on imported oil. His plan is to build fields of windmills across the Great Plains to generate electricity so that cleaner burning natural gas, which currently costs about $1.50 a gallon, and is used to power many electric plants, can be freed [...]
Greenest Museum In The World
The California Academy Of Sciences in Golden Gate Park , San Francisco, is one of the greenest buildings in the world. The roof contains over a million different species of plant life. The green roof insulates the building, keeping it warm in the winter and cool in the summer. When it rains, the roof absorbs the water, bringing [...]
First Jatropha Powered Jumbo Jet Lands
Today history has been made by Air New Zealand in the first flight powered by Jatropha. Jatropha, an up and coming second generation biofuel, that does not take away from food crops, was used in a 50/50 mix of Jatropha and jet fuel. [...]
Ben & Jerry’s Cleaner Greener Freezer
Ben & Jerry’s new in-store freezers do not use hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) as refrigerants anymore. Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), is the type of greenhouse gas that packs 1,400 times the global warming impact of more-common CO2. The new [...]
Green Power
There are many different sources of Green Power: Geothermal, Solar, Wind, Hydro, Biofuels, Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicles, Hydrogen Generators and many other ways to go green, as far as your power usage is concerned. By using Green Power, we help the environment and save money at the same time.
There are new ways to use green power for [...]
UPS Is Going Green!
United Parcel Service of America, Inc. (UPS) on the 13th of November, 2008, anounced plans to go paperless when tracking packages. They are going to use a new combo scanner paperless printing device, that will print directly on the packages themselves, replacing the standard labels.[...]
