Filed under: Home, Alternative EnergyOn one hand, when I read a news story about an entire village in South Korea drawing 100% of its power from the sun, I get excited and optimistic, but on the other hand, it only makes me sad to think we don’t have something like this going in the United States.Sure, there are plenty of solar-powered homes in the US, and there are plenty of entire cities that are extending into a more off-grid power structure, but the kicker of this story is the fact that the South Korean government covered 70% of the installation fees for this project! Government-funded alternative energy projects in action, what a novel idea! Not only that, they announced a plan to raise Jeju-du Island’s wind power generation capacity to 500 megawatts by 2020. I’d hate to think about how many solar panels a Blackhawk helicopter could buy.
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Re:Connect: who benefits from urban redesign?From: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 14:38:30
Filed under: Gadgets and TechRe:Vision, an online community of people dedicated to re-thinking urban space to encourage sustainability, is hosting a new competition that seeks concepts on how to turn a run-down urban block into "a thriving mixed-use area that centers on the family and supports local sustainable businesses." Reps from the site will then meet the community’s leaders, and the result will ideally spawn similar transformations in other neighborhoods. Re:Vision asks competitors ...
more Green Blog Tour: DIY wallpaper for pennies and hanging light bulb vasesFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 14:39:17
Filed under: Home, Green Blog TourJoin us as we take a tour of the green blogosphere. Ready? Let’s go.Wallpaper for pennies. It was the wallpaper Stephanie Zhong of Fabulously Green took note of while turning the pages of a furniture catalog. The wallpaper on the page featuring a $6,000 dollar Italian-crafted bed was newspaper. As she noted, if it was recycled newspaper, the cost was minimal. Motivated by the possibilities of recycled design, Stephanie created a list of ideas in How to Fab...
more From brownfield to big boxFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 12:44:19
Filed under: NewsHow do you convince big-name companies to build their stores and office buildings on top of heavily polluted land? It’s easier than you think. First, come up with a more pleasing name for these sites than "heavily polluted former trash dump." In this case, "brownfield" does the trick.And second, you start a "Brownfield Reimbursement Program," wherein you convince the builders to overhaul the sites before they build, and let them recoup 75% of the cleanup costs. There -...
more Pacific plastic dump unfixable, says oceanographerFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 12:44:26
Filed under: News, Polit-eco, ActivismRemember reading about that huge floating island of plastic crap out in the middle of the Pacific that’s twice the size of the continental United States? How’d it make you feel when you saw that? Proud of humanity’s technological ability to dominate the earth completely? Ashamed and depressed as hell? Well, wait til you hear the sequel.
Green Tech Blog reports on Charles Moore, an oceanographer who’s just returned from a 5 week crui...
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