Environment on Earth

France will support research on low-carbon emission cars with 400 million euros ($547 million) in funding over four years, President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a speech at the Paris auto show.Sarkozy also said he would seek changes to EU rules on state aid to allow member countries to support carmakers in their efforts to produce […]

The House of Representatives passed legislation extending billions of dollars in tax credits for the solar, wind and biodiesel industries, ending months of uncertainty for renewable energy companies.
The House voted 263 to 171 in favor of the tax breaks as a part of the $700 billion bailout package for Wall Street. This package was overwhelmingly passed by […]

 
Greenpeace recently released the ninth edition of its annual Guide to Greener Electronics, ranking Nokia first above other well-known manufacturers such as Samsung and Nintendo.
Nokia scored seven out of ten possible points, scoring highly because of its improved take-back practices in India, toxic chemical issues, utilizing models free of PVC and aiming to have all new […]

Are We Overlooking Some of the World’s Sustainable Energy Fuels?
Ever since humans first huddled around a fire for warmth, people have burned logs, straw, wood and animal waste–otherwise known as biomass–to create energy. Indeed, throughout most of history, these crude forms of fuel answered the world’s energy needs. Only after the industrial age matured did […]

It is one of the oldest sources of energy and was used thousands of years ago to turn a paddle wheel for purposes such as grinding grain.  Our nation’s first industrial use of hydropower to generate electricity occurred in 1880, when 16 brush-arc lamps were powered using a water turbine at the Wolverine Chair Factory […]

John Todd founded Ocean Arks International in the 1980s, where he started to experiment with processes that mimic natural ways to purify wastewater. He built a greenhouse and ran sewage through a series of tanks, with plants suspended in the flowing waters, and constructed marshes made of sand and gravel. No chemicals were added, but […]

 
Want to make your home even more green? Thought about adding solar panels, but can’t find the money needed? Saving on your monthly electricity bill is about to get much easier. The city of San Francisco approved a series of grants that will help every building in town add solar panels. You heard that right […]

This energy, in the form of heat and light, supports all life on Earth, drives the Earth’s climate and weather and is predominately responsible for the class of resources collectively known as renewable energy. Solar energy also broadly describes technologies that utilize sunlight.
The applications are diverse and date back millennia.
The Greeks, Native Americans and Chinese […]

Despite the amount of technological barriers to overcome, leaps in reliability and battery life make them a better environmental option for computer storage, if only slightly. The question comes with the news that Dell is now offering the storage drives in their consumer level M1330 and M1530 laptops.
Solid-state drives (SSDs) are an alternative to plate-spinning […]

As biofuels imports increase in the United Kingdom, policymakers remain largely uninformed about the true environmental and social costs of producing these fuels, posing a significant challenge for efforts to mandate their sustainable use.
In the first report since a U.K. mandate required that 2.5 percent of road transport fuel be supplied by biofuels, the independent […]