HP Competition Winner Has Rooftop Farms, Plugin Units
images from Bustler The HP Skyline 2020 competition “outlined fresh visual imaginations for the skyline discarding preconceived notions” and “allowed students and professionals to partner and elucidate their visions and designs that would change the skyline thereby transforming the city itself.” … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Today on Planet 100: Golf Course is an Environmental Hole in One (Video)
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Hyundai To Sell Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars In 2012
In a bid to one-up their competition, Hyundai has announced that they will sell hydrogen fuel cell cars starting in 2012 – three years before Toyota, Honda and the rest of the competition.
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Universal Cell Phone Charger Coming Soon…At Some Point…In the Maybe-Not-Distant Future…
Photo via kalleboo A common complaint about cell phones is that there is no universal charger — if you don’t have the one that works specifically for your phone, well, you’re just out of luck when your battery dies. It’s not only a hassle for cell phone owners, but it’s a huge problem for e-waste as the chargers become useless when the corresponding cell phones are tossed aside for newer models
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Miami’s Only LEED Gold Tower Can Withstand 300mph Winds!
Read the rest of Miami’s Only LEED Gold Tower Can Withstand 300mph Winds! http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: “leed” , “sustainable architecture” , 1450 Brickell , eco design , eco office , eco skyscraper , eco tower , green architecture , Green Building , hurricane resistant design , hurricane winds , LEED gold , Miami , Sustainable Building
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America’s First Zero Energy School to Open This Month
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Richardsville Elementary, a new LEED Platinum School in Kentucky, is getting extra credit by being the first zero energy school in the nation! Opening this month to much anticipation, the facility is a cornucopia of green building strategies and efficient technologies. The bread and butter of the school’s success are tremendous efficiency gains coupled with a 300 kW thin-film solar array . Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects have done and astonishing job of reducing the building’s energy consumption to one fourth of a typical school without breaking the bank
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American Samoa Becomes First U.S. Territory to Ban Plastic Bags
With California’s proposed statewide ban on plastic bags swept aside as collateral damage of the state’s broken political system, American Samoa emerged as the first U.S. state or territory to ban plastic bags at all retail stores
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Port of Long Beach Retrofitting Old Tugboats
After debuting the world’s first hybrid tugboat in 2009 , the Port of Long Beach is partnering again with Foss Maritime Company to retrofit an existing tugboat with hybrid technology. The ship called the Campbell Foss is a conventional dolphin tugboat assisting ships in the San Pedro Bay. It will be fitted with motor generators, batteries and control systems by Foss at one of their shipyards. The retrofit should cut 1,340 tons of CO2 emissions and save 100,000 gallons of fuel per year. Foss and the Port plan to introduce more hybrid tugs over the coming years and see more retrofits in the future.
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Peace Corps to Start Clean Energy Program in the Americas
Since 1961 when President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps by executive order, thousands of volunteers have traveled to developing countries to implement programs that range from AIDS education to information technology and environmental preservation
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iPhone Game Features Heroic Fish Dodging Gulf Oil Spill Damage
Image via Elephant Journal We’ve had an influx of iPhone apps based on the Gulf oil spill , and many of them also donate proceeds to helping clean-up efforts. So what makes Puff Puff: Gulf Spill any different? It’s still an app about the life post oil disaster and it donates 30% of net proceeds to ecosystem restoration in the Gulf of Mexico.
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