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30 Beautiful Green Desktop Wallpapers
Oct 31 2011 11:00 PM | Hayden in Green Energy
Today everywhere there is a shift to alternative energy and green living message given to us. We all need to keep the environment clean. Just to extend that very idea we decided to post a beautiful collection of Green Wallpapers for your desktops so th...
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Green Furnishing
Nov 01 2011 11:00 AM | godarna in Green Energy
How to set up an environmentally conscious home? Right now almost everyone pays attention to energy conservation when choosing electrical appliances, but one can also extend this to furniture and curtains. Furniture last much longer than fashion presc...
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Creole-Style Vegetarian Jambalaya
Nov 03 2011 03:10 AM | gina in Green Energy
Total Time: Prep Time: 25 mins Cook Time:1 hour Ingredients:1/2 cup olive oil 2 cups yellow onions, small dice 1 cup red onion, small dice 1 cup bell pepper, small dice 1 cup celery, small dice 2 cups eggplants, small, diced 1 cup yellow squash, dic...
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Leaf Blowers Are Bad - Here's Why
Nov 09 2011 12:00 AM | mariaandrea in Green Energy
It's a beautiful, crisp morning as I write this. The sun is burning off the remnants of wispy fog, revealing trees cloaked in vivid, startling colors of red, orange and yellow. Birds are rioting through the trees and squirrels scamper around in the...
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Save Money And Energy: Insulate Your Home
Nov 10 2011 12:00 PM | godarna in Green Energy
To make your house more energy efficient you need good insulation of floors, walls, roof and windows. When you reduce heat loss your house will be more comfortable to live in, and it will certainly lower your electricity bill at the end of the year. L...
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Small Cities For A Sustainable Future
Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | mariaandrea in Green Energy
In 1975 Ernest Callenbach published a novel called "Ecotopia" in which he explored the idea of an ecologically sustainable society. In order to create this society, the states of California, Oregon and Washington secede from the USA and proceed...
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5 No-Sew Projects For Old Jeans
Nov 14 2011 10:50 PM | mariaandrea in Green Energy
Most of us have them -- old jeans stuck in the back of closets or drawers that we no longer wear. They might be shredded beyond belief or they might not fit because we lost weight. We aren't interested in turning them into cutoff shorts because we...
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Energy Saving Light Bulbs | Which Save The Most...
Nov 22 2011 01:10 PM | Nadia R. in Green Energy
Do you know that lighting up your home is about 11% of all the electricity you use? Do you know that switching to energy saving light bulbs can decrease your energy costs with at least $50 per year, if you give up 15 traditional light bulbs? The...
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Google Retired Powermeter Service On September...
Nov 28 2011 12:10 AM | Hayden in Green Energy
Google launched PowerMeter as a free energy monitoring tool to raise awareness about the importance of giving people access to their energy information. PowerMeter included key features like visualizations of your energy usage, the ability share inform...
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China Emerges As An Unlikely Hero At Cop 17
Jan 14 2012 10:40 PM | thegreenmarket in Green Energy
China is often criticized for being the world’s biggest carbon emitter, but at COP 17 the country has emerged as an unlikely hero. China is in the process of reinventing itself and it is looking increasingly towards the green economy to do so. Chines...
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U.s. Solar Industry Posts Best Quarter Ever
Dec 18 2011 12:00 AM | E3 wise in Green Energy
New Hampshire, USA -- Judging by the headlines, the American solar industry is going through some rocky times. The Solyndra bankruptcy, the solar trade complaint filed against China and the pending expiration of a wildly popular grant program continue...
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Press Release: Energy Department Awards More Th...
Dec 22 2011 05:35 PM | E3 wise in Green Energy
Energy Department Awards More Than $7 Million for Innovative Hydrogen Storage Technologies in Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles The U.S. Department of Energy announced more than $7 million to fund four projects in California, Washington, and Orego...
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Secretary Salazar Approves Two Utility-Scale Re...
Dec 24 2011 12:00 AM | E3 wise in Green Energy
By Joseph Baker on December 20, 2011 On Tuesday, the US Department of Interior – (DOI) approved two utility-scale renewable energy projects to be built on public lands. Secretary Ken Salazar signed approvals for the Sonoran Solar Energy Project and...
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2011 Another Year Toward The Alternative Energy...
Dec 24 2011 12:00 AM | E3 wise in Green Energy
By Lois Moore e3wise.com For all those people who keep saying that big oil, coal, and natural gas companies are keeping Alternative Energy from going main stream, 2011 has been another example of how the economics and profitability of Alternative en...
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Osorb: The Nemesis Of Water Pollutants?
Jan 24 2012 11:50 PM | Hayden in Green Energy
A high-tech chemical sponge that separates oil and other pollutants from water has enormous market potential. It’s often said that oil and water don’t mix – but all too often they do, like in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, a high-tech chemical sponge has be...
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Enxco’S Pacific Hybrid Wind-Catalina Solar Proj...
Feb 14 2012 12:00 AM | E3 wise in Green Energy
Across Antelope Valley on the southern slopes of the Tehachapi Mountains, enXco’s Pacific Wind-Catalina Solar project, fully permitted by Kern County, has begun construction. Pacific Wind will be 140 megawatts and Catalina Solar will be 110 megawatts....
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Leaked: Conservative Group Plans Anti-Climate E...
Feb 15 2012 12:00 AM | E3 wise in Green Energy
By Stephanie Pappas | LiveScience.com Update, 4:55 pm ET: The Heartland Institute released a statement this afternoon calling the document leaks "criminal" and claiming that one of the documents, which purports to be the organization's cli...
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Arpa-E To Host Workshop On “Transportation Beha...
Feb 16 2012 09:45 PM | eds in Green Energy
This workshop will explore approaches that combine behavioral economics; consumer marketing; recent technology advances (such as smartphones and social networking); and large-scale data processing and analysis to give consumers more options for their p...
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Siemens To Increase Power Transmission Capacity...
Feb 20 2012 03:45 AM | eds in Green Energy
The grid connection between Scotland and England, . . .designed as a low-loss high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission system, . . . will have a rating of 2200 megawatts (MW). It will be the first submarine interconnector ever . . . using a...
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Water Bottle Brings Light Into The Slums
Feb 20 2012 10:00 AM | Hayden in Green Energy
A simple mix of water and chlorine is brightening homes in the Philippines. ‘Appropriate’ technologies such as the wind-up radio are all about clever devices that use less energy than their hi-tech equivalents, with the added benefits of being control...
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So Here, We Go Again, Higher Oil Prices, Good F...
Feb 21 2012 09:40 AM | E3 wise in Green Energy
Story from Associated Press. Oil prices jumped to a nine-month high above $105 a barrel on Monday after Iran said it halted crude exports to Britain and France in an escalation of a dispute over the Middle Eastern country's nuclear program...
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Space: The Final Frontier In Recycling?
Feb 28 2012 05:25 PM | Hayden in Green Energy
A US defence agency plans to reuse old satellite equipment still in orbit. Recycling and re-use are novel notions for space programmes. Enough old junk has been left orbiting the Earth to create a real collision hazard for expensive new satellites, but...
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Air Force Certifying F-16S To Use Biofuels
Mar 02 2012 12:00 AM | eds in Green Energy
In a joint effort by Airmen from the . . . Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and . . . Airmen from the Ohio Air National Guard’s 180th Fighter Wing, . . . the F-16 Fight Falcon is currently undergoing . . . a f...
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Wheel Converts Regular Bikes To Electric
Mar 07 2012 03:15 AM | eds in Green Energy
'db revO' wheel converts an ordinary bicycle to an electric bike . . . simply by replacing the front wheel. The device integrates: . . . . . . motor, . . . . . .battery, and . . . . . .controller into a wheel produced in a variety of colo...
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Health: Device Interoperability Problems
Mar 07 2012 01:00 PM | eds in Green Energy
Within the typical health care organization, . . . different software vendors' clinical applications, ranging from . . . . . . electronic health record (EHR) to . . . . . .e-prescribing to . . . . . .radiology imaging systems, present numerous heal...
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