Making water out of air, smarter homes, and better building blocks
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UTC Says First New Mexico Geothermal Project is Operational
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffUTC Power has announced that the first two production units of its PureCycle geothermal power system installed in July and early August at the Burgett Greenhouse in Animas, New Mexico, are exceeding performance expectations. The power from the units is ...
The Brooklyn Energy Project
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe Brooklyn Energy Project is intended to provide constructive alternatives that offer hope of preventing the looming Global Warming apocalypse. The Manhattan Project was the incubator for nuclear weapons – this is a path to what might be called The Brooklyn ...
Worldchanging Retrospective: Day 19
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffFive years ago, on October 1, we launched Worldchanging as a venue to find, discuss and imagine the world's most innovative solutions to the planet's most pressing problems. Since then, we've found a great and ...
Debating the Fate of Declining Suburbs
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. I've been thinking about the fate of declining suburbs, bombed out shrinking old industrial cities and ...
The Truth About Cars, the Potential of Cities
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Today's cars are costly, dangerous and an ecological nightmare. What if the solution to the problems ...
Finding Solutions for Reducing Food Waste
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Erica Barnett in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Every year, more than a quarter of the food in the United States' food system ...
The Paradox of Global Innovation: The People’s Car Comes to India
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Sanjay Khanna in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. The launch on January 10, 2008, of the US$2,500.00 Tata Nano “People’s Car” is a watershed ...
Design School for Decision Makers
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Justus Stewart in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. To walk down the streets of a major US city is to experience the impacts of ...
Shearing Shares: Community Supported Wool
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. We're fans of knowing where the things in your life came from, and where they're going ...
Fully Wrapping Our Heads Around the Collapse Scenario
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Kim Stanley Robinson makes a point I made elsewhere, but much more clearly: "It’s a failure of ...
“Shared Space” Traffic Management
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Erica Barnett in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Recently, my city (Seattle) decided to put the brakes on red-light scofflaws by installing 19 more ...
Key Concepts: Stabilization Levels and Peak Targets
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in January 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. The difference between greenhouse gas (GHG) stabilization levels and GHG peak targets is one we've failed ...
Learning Green Design: The Okala Guide
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Jeremy Faludi in January 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Are you a designer just getting interested in eco-design and are looking for a place to ...
Solar cooling outfit shows prototype, lands funding
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Clean-tech bubble talk is a red herring
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Headlines from Worldchanging Seattle (9/26/08)
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in About Worldchanging, Green News | Comments OffAt the Worldchanging headquarters here in Seattle, Wa. we're busy preparing for our 5th anniversary celebration next Wednesday, October 1! If you're in town, please join us to raise a toast to five years of optimism, ...
Green news harvest: Clean tech eyes Wall Street
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US House Passes Renewable Energy Tax Credits, Bill Returns to Senate
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSpeaker of The U.S. House of Representitves Nancy Pelosi announced that the House passed the Renewable Energy and Job Creation Tax Act of 2008 (H.R. 7060), which will extend and expand tax the production and investment tax credits for renewable ...
Santa Clara University Purchases Over 11 Million Kilowatt-Hours of Clean Renewable Energy
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSanta Clara University’s electricity just got a little greener. The University’s purchase of 11,256 megawatt hours of renewable energy, equal to the annual output of three and a half large-scale wind turbines, represents over one third of the University’s ...