The Swedish town of Halmstad has come up with a way to recycle heat from the furnaces of their local crematorium.
The plan to close the loop on the crematorium came about after an environmental review found that the plant was producing too much smoke. Ordinarily they would have had to buy new ovens to solve [...]
In April 2008, the Minnesota Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) received over 90 submissions for this year’s Request for Proposal funding energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. This represents nearly a twofold increase in the amount of proposals submitted for spring of 2008, and attests to the tremendous wealth of clean energy projects happening [...]
1366 Technologies, an MIT start-up with the goal of making silicon solar cells competitive with coal, has announced $12.4 million in funding from a first round of financing.
1366 founder and CTO, Professor Ely Sachs, stated in a recent press release the company will be combining innovations in silicon cell design with manufacturing process enhancements to [...]
I first wrote about Stephen Kerr’s Sun Baked solar ovens in an Ecospace article last September. Steven started Sun Baked to bring products to Canadians that can help them use more solar energy on an intimate, human scale. It’s an interesting fact that Toronto has just slightly less solar insolation than Miami Florida!
Solar cooking [...]
There’s a new way to minimize the impacat of shipping goods around the world!
DHL puts its green foot forward as the first express shipping and logistics company to offer carbon neutral delivery service. The recently launched Go Green program is a value-added service that offsets the CO2 emissions caused by the transportation with carbon [...]
In January of 2008 the European Commission introduced its Climate Action and Renewable Energy Package in efforts to fight climate change and promote sustainable energy practices.
The EU committed to reducing its energy levels to at least 20% below the levels of 1990 by 2020. This figure would then rise to 30% if other industrialized countries [...]
Ocean waves are said to have the highest energy density of energy renewable energy source – one thousand denser than wind. Finavera Renewables is a publicly traded company focusing on the development of renewable energy resources and technologies; such as the AquaBuOY (yes, spelled that way) – a floating buoy structure that converts the energy [...]
WWOOF is not only the sound of a dog barking, but a worldwide organic farming work exchange. It stands for Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms, and links individuals who want to volunteer on farms with farmers who need volunteer help.
WWOOF organizations compile directories of farmers who would like to host “wwoofers”. One becomes a WWOOF [...]
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