Monthly Archives: January 2010
eBay and its quest to become greener
eBay is a huge American Internet company, founded in 1995. In its site you can buy and sell products, it is an online auction and shopping website. Since 2007, and thanks to a group of environmentally concerned employees, the company [...]
Solar thermal energy could generate up to a quarter of the world’s electricity
The initials CSP stand for “Concentrated Solar Power.” As we have mentioned, this is our preferred alternative energy source, especially since it uses salt (NaCl) in a liquid state to keep turbines moving when the sun disappears. According to a [...]
One of the biggest composting centers in the US
Wilmington Organic Recycling Center opened last November. It is dedicated to composting food waste, yard waste and paper products. Thanks to it, the amount of trash sent to landfills will be reduced, lots of nutritious compost will be generated, and [...]
Charge your dead cell phone battery just by twirling it!
Great news for those who are always running out of battery in their cell phones. The new prototype mobile phone allows you to charge the battery with a simple twirl of your finger. That is, the kinetic energy generated by [...]
Australia’s Green Loans: promoting energy efficiency
Though renewable energy technologies are being greatly developed, not many people are able to adopt them yet, given their still expensive cost. That’s why governments play a key role in helping both green technology developers, and people interested in improving [...]
LEAD: For a sustainable livestock production
Livestock production is one of the major causes of the world’s most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution and loss of biodiversity. Using a methodology that considers the entire commodity chain, it is estimated [...]
The first ecological skyscraper still has lessons for us today
Design is in constant progress. Man is an infinitely creative being that continues to innovate and find ways of overcoming different obstacles. It is this creativity that will allow us to solve the current environmental crisis. However, it is sometimes [...]
China unveils the world’s largest solar-powered office building
The world’s largest solar powered building is located in Dezhou, Shangdong Province, in northwest China. The facility has a 75,000 square meter surface which was built based on the sun dial structure. The innovation in the design and construction of [...]
B9 cargo ship: making sea transportation more sustainable
To solve the environmental crisis we are in, we need to work in different areas, from transportation, to education, to politics, to industrial production and agriculture. An innovation in one particular area means we are moving along in our quest [...]
Peter Senge’s Necessary Revolution
In his latest book, MIT professor Peter Senge claims that our current way of living is to blame for the climate crisis we are in. Senge describes how the manner in which things work right now is leading us towards [...]
16-year-old student identifies microbes that can biodegrade plastic bags
Plastic is not biodegradable. It can take hundreds of years for the sun and other agents of nature to degrade it. Because of this, environmentalists dream of abandoning plastic or creating a biodegradable plastic. Now it appears that a 16-year-old [...]
Large-scale energy storage
Alternative energy such as solar and wind power are becoming more popular all over the world. These technologies are progressing daily, but until the problem of storage is solved, their ascent to the top of the “sustainability mountain,” as some [...]
