Eco Cars: Urban Concept Vehicle provides potable water and food

Eco Factor: Concept vehicle integrated with hydroponic planters and water purification system. While millions of people living in underdeveloped regions lack access to fresh water and food, industrial designers have taken up the job to develop systems that can sort out the problems with minimum environmental impact. Industrial designer Nicolás Chacana has come up with a concept vehicle that can solve both these problems in a sustainable fashion

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The Evangelical Ecologist Hosts Carnival of the Green

With the holiday here in the U.S. last week, we are a bit late with announcing our most recent Carnival of the Green.

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INTERPOL: Over 2 Tons of Elephant Ivory Seized, 100 People Arrested – Largest Ever Wildlife Crime Operation in Africa

The largest ever transnational operation targeting wildlife crime across Africa has resulted in the arrests of over 100 people and the seizure of more than two tons of ivory.

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Data Center Underneath Cathedral Will Heat Finland Homes

Data centers generate a lot of heat.  In fact, over 50 percent of the energy used by data centers is for cooling the servers, not computing.  Almost all efforts to make them more efficient focus on keeping the equipment cool with less energy.  But what if all that heat could be used for good? We recently wrote about the potential of using waste heat to generate electricity, but this time the benefit of the heat is the heat itself. The excess heat generated by a new Finnish data center will be used to warm homes throughout Helsinki.  The data center will be builit under the Uspenski Cathedral, nestled in the bedrock in a former WWII bomb shelter.  The waste heat will be captured and pumped into the city heating network that consists of water-heated pipes that deliver heat to homes

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Bike Trailer Homes for Sale, Only $1950 O.B.O

All images via BikePortland Some might say that Brian Campbell has been living on the street for thirty years; others might suggest that he has mastered the skill of lightweight mobile living, with a blue styrofoam roof over his head and wheels under. He rode his previous …

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Another One Bites the Dust: Michigan Coal Plant Converts to Biomass

In yet another indication that the days of king coal are numbered, another coal-fired power plant in the U.S.

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Another One Bites the Dust: Michigan Coal Plant Converts to Biomass

Railway Track Creates Unexpected Habitat for Rhinos

India’s Bagha-Chitauni rail link has unexpectedly created a swampy new home for a family of rhinos. Although in the 1990’s, Bihar forest officials fought – and lost – a legal battle to stop the railway track relaying project, today they couldn’t be happier: The obstruction has created 1,000 hectares of swampy rhino habitat. Read more of this story »

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Green-e Certified Energy Sales Surged in 2008

Last year, Green-e saw huge jumps in sales of renewable energy it has certified along with many other increases, from the number of utilities and states involved with its programs to the number of customers buying renewable energy credits.  

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Dune Architect Transforms Desert Sand into Dwellings for the Green Wall Sahara Shelterbelt

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