[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
photo: Army.mil via flickr
Last October, the US Army announced that it would be developing a 500 MW solar thermal power plant at Fort Irwin, California. At the time details as to who would be developing the project and when it might come online were lacking, but we now have more details on that (via Greent… […]
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It’s only been a short while that you could actually participate in the Cash for Clunkers program — four days in fact — but response was so overwhelming that the program has already depleted its billion budget, Raw Story reports:
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Plant DNA ‘barcodes’ can help identify plants quickly and easily, without requiring an on-site visual ID from a botanist. Photo by Victoria Porter via Flickr.com.
After four years of research, scientists have decided on a standard ‘DNA barcode’ for identifying plants. It sounds cool, if you like science (which I do), but is it perhaps one […]
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It’s only been a short while that you could actually participate in the Cash for Clunkers program — four days in fact — but response was so overwhelming that the program has already depleted its billion budget, Raw Story reports:
… Read the full story on TreeHugger
image: Solar Sailor Holdings
I have to say that usually when I hear about a solar-powered boat I’m a bit skeptical — often the solar power is just used for lighting or other equipment and not propulsion — but not so with Kong Kong’s four new solar-powered ferries. Solar power will supply three-quarters of their power, […]
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Today the world’s first biochar methodology has been published for public consultation by the Voluntary Carbon Standard. This ground breaking paper has been submitted by the UK based biochar project developers Carbon Gold. They are confident that their methodology will help create an ethical and sustainable structure for a potential biochar offsetting […]
Photo credits Lundberg Design and Streetsblog via Jetson Green
Preston at Jetson Green calls it “an interesting collaboration of five different organizations:San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency(SFMTA), Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc., Lundberg Design,3Form, and Konarka.” They are lovely things with Konarka flexible photovoltaics … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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As you hopefully know by now, August is a special month round these parts. That’s because it’s Blue August - a month of not only a focus on all things marine here on TreeHugger, but also a month of awesome TV programming and online content on everything related to water over at […]
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commissions’ Rising Tides Competition sought ideas “from practical and pragmatic to aggressively imaginative and speculative” to deal with rising water levels that will result from climate change. The judges had a problem; there were so many wildly divergent but interesting proposals that instead of giving out a top […]
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We all know that the state of the world’s fisheries is pretty dire, with overfishing rampant and fish stock collapse likely in many places if something isn’t done about it. A new paper in the journal Science gives some hope, saying that management efforts to prevent overfishing are working. H… Read […]