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Isaac Asimov Explained Climate Change in 1977 (Video)

Image: Positive Psychology News Isaac Asimov is one of the greatest science fiction writers in history -- his Foundation novels and Robot universe (which recently inspired the I, Robot Will Smith film) continue to inform popular culture to this day. Asimov was also a professor of biochemistry at Boston University and a prolific author of successful pop science books as well. In other words, the man was no slouch. No surprise then, that he speaks more eloquently about climate change in 1977 than most folks d... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article

Enterprise Rent-A-Car to Offer the Chevy Volt Later This Month

Photo: GM Other EVs to Follow Not to be outdone by its competitor Hertz, which announced that many models of electric cars will be available in 2011, Enterprise car rental says that it will have Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrids on offer for daily and weekly rentals later this month, though at first only at the Mark Christopher Auto Center in Ontario, California. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article

Video Autopsy of a Tesla Model S Electric Car

Photo: Screen grab from Tesla video Must See for EV Geeks Tesla's Vice President of Vehicle Engineering, Peter Rawlinson, gives us a video tour of the alpha version of Tesla's next car, the Model S electric sedan. Rawlinson's hypnotic voice is worth the price of admission alone, but anybody who's interested by EV engineering and technology should check out the 3 videos below.... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article

Wind Farm Noise Complaints - Bunk, Not Bunk, A Bit of Both?

photo: FranceHouseHunt.com/Creative Commons We've covered the issue (or non-issue, depending on which side you're on) of wind farms causing health problems in people living nearby for some time--the whooshing sound is reportedly disruptive of sleep if you're constantly and closely exposed to it. But if you need an overview of s... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article

Earth Hour 'will not cut carbon emissions'

A climate change campaign to get everyone to switch off their lights will not reduce carbon emissions, according to electricity experts. Earth Hour, organised by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), will see millions of people switch off their lights for an hour this weekend. But the fall in electrici...

Friday, 26 March 2010 | Hits: 252

Ask All Countries To Submit Emission Reduction Targets And Sign On Accord With the January 31 deadline drawing close, the United Nations and Denmark have stepped up the effort to get all countries to sign the Copenhagen Accord. UN Secretary-General ban ki-Moon and Danish prime minister Lars Locke...

Monday, 11 January 2010 | Hits: 116

Biodiversity is under threat worldwide. For example, the global mammalian extinction rate of 0.35% of species lost per century since 1600 is calculated to be between 17 and 377 times the mammalian background extinction rate during the past 65 million years, that is, since the mass extinction that ...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010 | Hits: 178

Press Release

With Launch of DVD on June 22nd, the FUEL team of Energy Experts Began a National Dialogue on Solutions for the DeepWater Oil Spill Events to Span from Los Angeles to New Orleans and Canada LOS ANGELES, CA (June 23, 2010) – To coincide with the two month anniversary of the De...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010 | Hits: 152

Emissions spewing into the atmosphere now could easily lead to atmospheric CO2 concentrations of 1,000 parts per million by the year 2200, effectively pushing the world beyond the tipping point for irreversible climate impacts, according to a survey of 14 renowned climate scientists published last week in the Proceedings of th...

Monday, 5 July 2010 | Hits: 78

With the Launch of the DVD on June 22nd, the FUEL team of Energy Experts Began a National Dialogue on Solutions for the DeepWater Oil Spill LOS ANGELES, CA (July 1, 2010) - To coincide with the two month anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that triggered the worst en...

Saturday, 7 August 2010 | Hits: 94

Green Technology

Cold storage facility powered by solar energy

Perpetual Power has announced the completion of a 416KW DC solar installation on a Budweiser cold beer storage facility in Contra Costa County, California. The 2,240 panels, which cover about 60% of the 110K-aquare-foot building’s energy needs gene...

Monday, 26 July 2010 | Hits: 81

Researchers at the Iowa State University have invented a green gadget, a solar-powered necktie, in the process of inventing fabric that integrates photovoltaic thin film cells both physically and aesthetically into wearable clothing. In terms of ae...

Friday, 28 May 2010 | Hits: 402

The Eureka Hard Surface Floor Steam Cleaner is a fast and effective way of cleaning hard surface floors without the need for chemicals. By using steam it cleans the floor surfaces effectively, drys quickly and also kills germs.

Saturday, 8 May 2010 | Hits: 112

Green Editorial

Amidst the IPCC controversy over melting of glaciers, NEHA SINHA takes a look at India’s glaciologists – a tiny group afloat on personal commitments ANURAG Linda, during his work season, clocks a duty shift from 9 am to 5 pm. But this is a work shift like no other. Each time he...

Tuesday, 26 January 2010 | Hits: 192

In this the fourth article of the series on urban sustainability and energy efficiency, let's look at the new future before us. We call it a future that is zero energy driven.Clearly over the last four decades, we have seen how the Government can do very little to actually 'solve' th...

Friday, 6 August 2010 | Hits: 97

Guest Column

I was struggling through my routine at the gym in April when the owner came up to me. “Give me something to share on Twitter for Earth Day,” he demanded. I’ve been working out for more than 30 years and I’m still waiting for it to be fun, or at least ea...

Wednesday, 19 May 2010 | Hits: 188

How will vast regions of India, where highly unreliable rainfall makes the difference between famine and sustenance, cope with climate change? Over 85 percent of the cultivated area in this country is either directly dependent on rain or depends on rain to recharge its groundwater. Seasonal rain provides water for ir...

Friday, 17 September 2010 | Hits: 165

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Isaac Asimov Explained Climate Change in 1977 (Video)

Enterprise Rent-A-Car to Offer the Chevy Volt Later This Month

Video Autopsy of a Tesla Model S Electric Car

Wind Farm Noise Complaints - Bunk, Not Bunk, A Bit of Both?

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Earth Hour 'will not cut carbon emissions'

UN, Denmark get active on ‘Hagen deal’

Biodiversity in India

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Activist and filmmaker josh tickell to ‘fuel’ push for solutions on deepwater oil spill

Fast action needed for near-term mitigation

‘Fuel’ film galvanizes support in louisiana for deepwater oil spill solutions

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Cold storage facility powered by solar energy

Solar-Powered Neck-Tie

Eureka – Hard Surface Floor Steam Cleaner

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Cracking the ice code

Grid-free, on the horizon

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Lessons From the Field—Rainwater Harvesting in India

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