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Sanyo and UCSD Sign Multi-Year Deal for Next Generation of Energy Management

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 03 June 2010 in Sustainable Development

Tokyo, June 4, 2010 -- The Sanyo Electric Group, including Sanyo North America Corporation headquartered in San Diego, Calif., (SANYO) and the University of California, San Diego have announced a research collaboration agreement designed to lead to the next generation of solar energy systems and ene...

The signal the start of a new, “green” chapter in transportation logistics

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 03 June 2010 in Wind

When the first unit train carrying wind turbine components leaves Duluth this week, it will signal the start of a new, “green” chapter in transportation logistics at the westernmost tip of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway system. The shipment of 24 Siemens wind turbine nacelles and spinn...

Siemens has won three wind farm maintenance contracts in Washington and Oregon.

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 03 June 2010 in Wind

German wind turbine manufacturer Siemens has won three wind farm maintenance contracts in Washington and Oregon.The company said the deals were worth a combined $55 million.Under a deal with San Diego-based Cannon Power Group, Siemens will provide warranty maintenance services for 114 of its SWT-2.3...

The Largest Wind Farm in the World

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 03 June 2010 in Wind

A wind farm is a collection of wind turbines in the same location. This may also be called a “wind power plant,” because many wind turbines working together can produce a lot of electricity—just like coal or nuclear power plants. Wind turbines are often grouped together in wind farms because...

Gulf Coast warned oil may leak until August

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 in Oil Spill

U.S. government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out oil well causing an environmental disaster on the Gulf Coast may not be stopped until August as the company begins preparations on a new attempt to capture the leaking crude. The disaster, in its 42nd day on Monday, is already the larg...

A Great Carbon Dioxide Burp

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 in Climate Change

There are many earth cycles. One is a cycling between warmer and colder periods which are commonly called ice ages. The causes of these cycles are complex and are related to how much sun radiation we get as well as some slight variation in the sun itself. Scientists have recently found a pos...

Oil Spills for Dummies

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 in Oil Spill

by Deborah Blum So, at a Sunday news briefing, British Petroleum's CEO, Tony Hayward, announced that there are no underwater plumes of oil resulting from the April accident at the company's Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Why? Well, first BP's testing hasn't found any such evidence. An...

Hydroelectric Energy

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 31 May 2010 in Clean Technology

Fossil Fuels are running low and greenhouse gases are only becoming worse. Which direction in renewable energy will provide for a better environment along with better methods for producing energy? Hydropower has been used for hundreds of years. The first uses of hydropower were for grinding of grai...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 31 May 2010 in Clean Water

“Where does most of the garbage in our streets actually end up?” This is a question most people ask but never really get an answer too. Today the answer will be revealed. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the center of our garbage, made up of nothing but floating garbage and debris (Moore, C. 2003)...

Volunteer Programs

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 31 May 2010 in Animals

Does anyone know if there is a website or if I could make a website for people to donate, to help send me to Australia or other countries to do volunteer work? Its like 3-4 thousand for a two week to months trip depending on where you go.

Gulf Oil Threatens an Underwater 'Rainforest'

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 30 May 2010 in Oil Spill

The WeatherBird II is not a pretty ship. A boxy, businesslike, 194-ton vessel, it prowls the waters off St Petersburg, Fla. where it competes for attention with the cruise ships and sport yachts and other glamour boats. But the WeatherBird II was the buzz of the Gulf on Friday, after its ala...

BP Turns Focus to Marine Cap After 'Top Kill' Fails

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 30 May 2010 in Oil Spill

BP PLC expects to connect a marine cap to contain a spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico in about four days, the company's chief executive told staff Monday. In an email, Tony Hayward said: "The LMRP [lower marine riser package] cap is already on site and it is currently anticipated that it will be con...

"This scares everybody, the fact that we can't stop this well,"

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 30 May 2010 in Oil Spill

This scares everybody, the fact that we can't stop this well," - BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles, May 29, 2010: More oil-spill responders hospitalized and exposure information gaps persist by Elizabeth Grossman As of Saturday afternoon, May 29th, ten oil spill clean-up workers had ...

Saving Our Forests

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 30 May 2010 in Forestry

All over the world, more premium is being placed on the conservation of forests and the planting of tress in order to preserve both fauna and flora. It is not for nothing that it is usually stated that “when the last tree dies, the last man dies”. Scientists are quick to explain that one of the imp...

Seeking info and help

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 23 May 2010 in Arts and Entertainment

Hello everyone! My name is Vanessa Pastrana and the organization I work with, Kingsbridge Heights Neigborhood Improvement Association (KHNIA ), hosts an annual cultural festival. This year the festival will be on July 10th. We have decided to make the theme about the Prot...

Children's Environmental Health Rights Centre in Madurai, India - Become a Partner!

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 20 May 2010 in Human Health

Children’s Environmental Health Rights Centre in Madurai, Tamilnadu, India{A capacity building, training, advocacy and resource Centre for children and young people} Introduction: Protection of environment has posed not only a major challenge but also a social and moral responsibility in the ...

Luna Moth

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 in Animals

So it favorite Animals week, which I may be stretching animals to the insect kingdom, but for today this guy is my favorite. This is a Luna Moth and to some degree they're quite rare. Humans rarely see the moth because they fly at night. They also have become endangered as a result of pollution and ...

Oceans' fish could disappear in 40 years: UN

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, UN experts said Monday. "If the various estimates we have received... come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are o...

The Dirty Side of Clean Coal

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 15 May 2010 in Earth Violators

As long as mountaintop removal mining continues coal cannot be clean, even if the pollution from burning it can be minimized By Douglas Fischer DIRTY COAL Mountaintop removal mining pollutes communities in Appalachia.Courtesy of Douglas Fisc...

Gulf oyster, shrimp and crab supplies dwindle and prices rise

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 12 May 2010 in Oil Spill

Reporting from New Orleans and Los Angeles As the Louisiana sun beat down on the Westwego Seafood Market, the aisles were as empty as the coolers. Fish hawkers paced alongside sparsely filled counters dotted with shrimp and crabs, calling out in strained voices to the few customers strolling by. Ma...