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      Algae. The Biofuel Wave of the Future. Algae were first explored as a fuel alternative in 1978 under President Jimm...
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Posted by on in Biofuels
Researchers at the Univ. of California, Riverside’s College of Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) are working with the state of California to develop diesel formulations with higher levels of renewable biofuels. This research supports several California legisla...
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Posted by on in Green Products/Services
by Lauren Deville The bad news: We live in a toxic world. There are all kinds of nasty foreign substances all around us, from heavy metals to plastics (otherwise known as phthalates) to pesticides, solvents, molds, and other fat- and water-soluble chemicals. It isn't really possible to avoid toxins...
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Posted by on in Human Health
  We’ve long known that environmental factors contribute to disease, especially contamination of air, water, and soil. Scientists are now learning the connection is stronger than we realized.   New research shows that 60 per cent of emerging infectious diseases affecting humans — thos...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
  Two months after media-mogul Ted Turner donated $1 million to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, the group has already begun to expand conservation efforts in Eastern Congo amid growing regional instability.  The gift has allowed the organizatio...
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Posted by on in Biofuels
by Boua Xiong Algae has been studied and experimented with for decades. Now St. Cloud State University is helping take it to the next level. In 2010 students at St. Cloud partnered with Algaedyne, a Minnesota start-up company, to try and find the most efficient way to convert the small organisms i...
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Posted by on in Water Conservation
The EPA has declared water, the substance the Clean Water Act was created to protect, a pollutant - and it is getting the federal government dragged into court. How so?  They are requiring Fairfax County, Virginia, to artificially control the flow of water in Accotink Creek watershed beca...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
by Kristina Smith Horn When Jerry Whipple was a boy, his grandfather and father impressed upon him the value of the land they farmed and their responsibility to it. "They were very passionate about the soil," said Whipple, a third-generation farmer. "They said, 'Son, they don't make any more soil....
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Algae Magazine Interview: NASA’s Dr. Jonathan Trent  By David Schwartz NASA scientist, Jonathan Trent, Ph.D., the inventor, heart, and soul of the OMEGA system (Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae) has been developing an idea for a way to grow algae using wastewater, but not on lan...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
By Jim Buchta, Star Tribune Nakeia and Ramell Dismond are like most working-class families: After the rent is paid, they have no money left in the budget for their kids' activities or vacations. That will change in a couple of months when they purchase a new twin home on the west edge of River Fal...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
A polar bear was inadvertently shot to death by a security guard at BP's Endicott field on the North Slope of Alaska when it approached a compound where oil workers live. The shooting earlier this month marked the first time one of the region's iconic bears -- listed as threatened under the federal...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
I'd like to bring everyone's attention to the upcoming screenings of the film Mission of Mermaids, on which I have had the privilege of working as associate producer and as outreach consultant. The film will be screening around the world this summer and fall--Brazil, Australia, US. For more informat...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
On Wednesday, Slash was on hand to help launch the Bob Irwin Wildlife Conservation Foundation at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, Australia. Slash says he first met Bob, the father of the late crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, a couple of years ago at a music festival. "He [Bob] brought some...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
PETA gives Parsons 'scummiest CEO' gong and boycott Bob Parsons, chief executive of the market-leading domain name registrar Go Daddy, has come to blows with animal-rights organisation PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), after he shot an African elephant and posted the video onlin...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
It may live in peanut butter jars and chocolate milkshakes by Jason Koebler Researchers at the University of Southern Mississippi say that lecithin, an ingredient used in non-stick cooking sprays and many food products and cellulose, a compound derived from plants' cell walls that can give ice cre...
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Posted by on in Clean Technology
by Angie Bergenson Cleantech Group releases new report on clean technology patents The Cleantech Group, a market research firm that focuses on clean technology, has published the latest edition of its Clean Energy Patent Growth Index. The report aims to provide insight on the trends that are influ...
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Posted by on in General Environment
TOKYO -- Japan's public wants the government to phase out nuclear power according to the results of town hall-like forums to give the public a say in the debate on the nation's energy supply post-Fukushima. The forums brought together 286 citizens for two days in early August in Tokyo from...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
Sea ice extent in the Arctic is very near to beating the previous record low set in 2007, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center. Researchers told Reuters that they expect the record to be beaten by the end of month, well over a week before the melt season ends in the frozen north. ...
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Posted by on in Forestry
In the 1990s, life was simpler for environmentalists.  Crippling the logging industry was all that was needed to protect trees and birds. But, as in abortion or gun control, you have to sue everyone or you can sue no one and even responsible logging and clearing brush was stopped by environmen...
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Posted by on in Clean Technology
By Barbara Vergetis Lundin of fierceenergy.com According to research from Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), up to 37,409 jobs could be created from the more than 70 major clean energy projects launched across the U.S. in the second quarter of 2012 alone. Public transportation, electric vehicle manu...
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