Make It Right Builds Sustainable Homes For Needy Families
BRAD PITT’S WORK AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA BRANCHES OUT JULY 9, 2014 – After Hurricane Katrina, Brad Pitt felt a need to help the New Orleans Lower 9th Ward with desperately…
Company Building 84 MPG Car for $7,000
ELIO MOTORS WANTS TO REVOLUTIONIZE TRANSPORTATION JUNE 29, 2014 – A new company called Elio Motors intends to create over 1,500 jobs in Louisiana and revolutionize transportation by building a…
Rodale Institute Proposes Regenerative Organic Agriculture to Counteract Carbon Emissions
White Paper States 100% of World’s CO2 Emissions Could be Sequestered June 9, 2014 – The Rodale Institute, a “get our hands dirty” agricultural research organization, has issued a white…
YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR HAS PASSIVE CONCEPT TO CLEAN UP PLASTIC LITTER IN OCEANS
BOYAN SLAT LOOKS TO CROWD-FUNDING TO FURTHER RESEARCH CONCEPT June 8, 2014 – Boyan Slat is a young man who has come up with an awesome “passive concept” idea to clean…
Aluminum-Air Battery Extends Range of Electric Cars by 400%
DEVICE USES CHEMICAL REACTION OF WATER AND ALUMINUM JUNE 5, 2014 – A partnership between Israel-based Phinergy and Canada’s ALCOA has resulted in a device called an “aluminum-air battery”, which…
Germany’s Use of Renewable Energy and Good Weather Drives Down Energy Prices
RENEWABLE ENERGY SEEN AS PATH FOR EU TO GET OFF PUTIN’S OIL AND GAS June 3, 2014 – Platts McGraw Hill Financial, a leading global energy information provider, is reporting that…
Toyota Launches Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicle Program For Masses
ENGINEER JACKIE BIRDSALL WANTS TO BE HENRY FORD OF HYDROGEN FUEL-CELL VEHICLES MAY 29, 2014 – One of the main complaints from the sustainable community about hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles is that…
Greenpeace Norway Activists Occupy Statoil Oil Rig near Arctic Ice Edge
PROTEST ENTERS 2ND DAY, MAY DELAY START OF DRILLING MAY 28, 2014 – 15 dedicated Greenpeace Norway activists stormed (see pic left) and have occupied the Statoil oil rig Transocean Spitsbergen…
New Report Shows Climate Change Risk Threatening US Historic Sites
MANY EARLY SITES LIKE JAMESTOWN TO BE UNDERWATER MAY 24, 2014 – A new report by the Union of Concerned Scientists predicts that the rise in sea levels, worsening floods…
Children’s Choir Joins Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott in “Paradise” Singing Against Mountaintop Coal Mining
MAY 21, 2014 – Way back in 1971, John Prine wrote a song for his father lamenting the place near the Green River he would visit in Kentucky as a…