Future City: Seattle on the Threshold
Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffIn preparation for our Future City event this Friday, we're comparing progress towards urban sustainability in Portland and Seattle. In its Cascadian context, Seattle is the middling city. It's true that it retains a vibrant central core, that ...
Connecting Delta Cities
Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffConnecting Delta Cities (CDC) was set up to share best practice in adapting to climate change and consequent sea level rises for delta cities. They are holding their first conference at the end of this month. ...
Reader Report: Seattle’s First Designers Accord Town Hall
Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments Offby Linda Norlen Editor's Note: We encourage "Reader Reports" -- submissions from members of Worldchanging's global audience who volunteer to write up their notes from conferences, workshops and other worldchanging happenings they participate in. If you'd like ...
Yacht powered by wind even with sails lowered
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DUMBO Underwater: Artist Visualizes New York City Under Water
Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffDUMBO Underwater (Image courtesy of the artist, Eric Corriel) Artist Eric Corriel has created a video installation in Brooklyn, New York that dramatizes and visualizes what that area might look like if the East River overflowed. He ...
Belkin offers ’smart’ router for smart meters
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South Korea firms jump onto solar bandwagon
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SMAVNET: Flying Robots for Disaster Relief
Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffRendering of the Swarming Micro Air Vehicle Network (SMAVNET) Project (via Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) are working on creating swarming flying robots for deployment in disaster areas. ...
GE challenge stirs radical ideas for cleaner grid
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Wind Power Now Lucrative Energy Option for UK Consumers
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSouthwest Windpower, the world's leading supplier of small wind generators, has received product certification for its Skystream 3.7® wind turbines under the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS), enabling customers who install a Skystream wind turbine to qualify for the UK ...
The good news: a newly discovered habitable planet. The bad news: we may have to move there.
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSmokey The Bear And Renewable Energy
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffAttorney General Jerry Brown visits PetersenDean in Newark, CA
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffWind turbine supply chain set to be leaner, tighter and more responsive.
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffFor the wind turbine supply chain the past 12 months have been about component redesign, reconfiguration of component production lines, realignment of manufacturing locations and more conservative capacity addition. The demand gap brought about by the financial crisis has ...
Governator to utilities: Invest in energy storage … maybe
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffLatin America Warms to Wind
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffLatin America is primarily a least-cost driven generation market focused on tapping hydro resources and building thermal plants. But the region is set to become a global wind powerhouse in the coming decade with more than 40 GW of ...
Researchers Prime PV to Compete with Grid Electricty
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffGlobal research into solar photovoltaics has seen a steady increase over the past 20 years as the technology has developed and those behind it strive to advance its cause for both existing and new applications in the evolving global ...
Alstom Makes its Debut in Turkey’s Wind Boom
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Posted in Green News | Comments OffAlstom's deal with Eolos Wind Energy Generation, a subsidiary of Güris Construction and Engineering, is to supply, install and commission the 24 MW wind farm and to provide operation and maintenance services for five years.