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Waste for Life: Alleviating Poverty with Waste

Derek Markham — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:27:50 +0000

Turning trash into resources and helping to alleviate poverty at the same time is an audacious goal, but an organization called Waste for Life has taken it on. The group has been working in Lesotho, South Africa, and Argentina to transform discarded materials, chiefly non-recycled plastic waste, into both domestic products and building materials. Waste for [...]

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Kenya’s Biggest Geothermal Project Planned: 280 MW

Derek Markham — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:04:09 +0000

For a country which can only supply electricity to about 10 percent of its citizens, Kenya has been able to do rather well as far as using renewable energy for its power. Some 90 percent of Kenya’s electricity is produced with hydroelectric dams, which are susceptible to droughts, and its current geothermal plants only produce [...]

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All Fuel External Combustion Engine to Challenge Land Steam Speed Record

Derek Markham — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:00:29 +0000

Imagine an engine that can run on any fuel, has lower emissions and cooler exhaust than an internal combustion engine, uses no oil, and is virtually noise-free. Imagine that it also has less parts to maintain, can develop 2.5 hp per cubic inch of displacement, and needs no transmission or oil pump system. Introducing the [...]

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Home Wind Power for Half the Price, Over the Counter

Derek Markham — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:40:26 +0000

For commercial renewable energy enthusiasts, there’s no shortage of eye candy among industrial sized wind installations, but for the homeowner, the closest they get to feeling like they’re really generating clean energy might be the ‘Powered by the Wind’ sticker they get from their local utility when purchasing the wind power option for electricity. But [...]

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Can Bio Coal Turn Coal Power Plants into Green Energy Producers?

Derek Markham — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:14:44 +0000

Is it possible to turn coal power plants into renewable energy producers? According to the supporters of bio coal, the answer is yes – coal plants can burn bio coal, created from biomass, without retooling their storage, handling, or burning systems. Bio coal is somewhat similar to charcoal, but created from biomass harvested from plantations, urban [...]

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Is Walmart Putting Profits Above Safety by Stocking Dangerous Products for Kids?

Derek Markham — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:27:09 +0000

According to Wake Up Walmart, Walmart continues to stock products identified as unsafe or dangerous by reputable consumer safety organizations. The retail giant is offering holiday gifts for kids which have high levels of dangerous substances such as lead, chlorine, arsenic, cadmium, and bromine (according to findings from HealthyStuff). The members of WakeUpWalmart.com (almost a half [...]

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CO2 Impact Greatly Underestimated by Climate Projections

Derek Markham — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:18:57 +0000

A new study claims that the Earth’s climate may be up to 50% more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) over the long term than previous climate projections, and that these projections might need to be adjusted to account for this new information. The new research, “Earth system sensitivity inferred from Pliocene modeling and data“, studied [...]

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Inert Ingredient in Roundup Kills Human Cells

Derek Markham — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:14:09 +0000

One of the inert ingredients in the popular herbicide Roundup has been found to kill human cells, especially embryonic and placental cells. Many consumers believe Roundup to be safe, and until a recent study, researchers focused solely on the health effects of a single active ingredient, glyphosate. New research has now found that the inert [...]

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