Thanks to Don Davis for sharing this interesting item: GE is sending these water purification units to Haiti.
“A single Sunspring unit is capable of producing 19,000 liters of drinkable water every day,” notes CBS news in its story about the shipment. “The units are quick to deploy and can be operational three hours after arrival.”
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In Tuesday’s Gainesville Sun, Mark Stowe and Dave Pokorney imagine what the Gainesville community would be like if it was completely outfitted with ultra high speed fiber internet. That dream could become a reality if Gainesville wins Google’s “fiber to the premises” experimental broadband initiative. If selected, Gainesville could be [...]
“Mountaintop mining should be banned for causing vast and permanent destruction to US environment and exposing its people to serious health consequences such as birth defects, a new study says today.
An article in the journal Science, by a team of 12 ecologists, hydrologists, and engineers, provides the most comprehensive analysis so far of the damage [...]
Safety officials reviewed plans from the European companies, Areva and EDF, which make the EPR reactor, and similar documents for the AP1000 reactor built by the American multinational power company, Westinghouse, and ruled that both need to improve the safety of their power plants before they can be approved for construction.
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In a wide-ranging interview with Slate, Gore talks about environmental policy, why the Copenhagen meeting matters, and the hacked climate science emails. The emails, Gore stresses, were “taken wildly out of context” and the uproar surrounding them is “sound and fury signifying nothing.”
His frustration with the hacked-email fallout is palpable. “The basic facts are incontrovertible. [...]
The relationship between industry and research is a bit unsettling.
University of Alaska Scientist Rick Steiner Loses Federal Grant Funding After Criticizing Oil Industry.
Funds are available for training in green vocations… see if there might be something here for you:
If you are collecting unemployment insurance you may be eligible for full government funding for Green Jobs Training costs under your local individual worker training grant program.
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Gainesville will be the 3rd and final stop of the Central Florida Alliance’s Solar Tour. The Gainesville Tour will be hosted by the University of Florida Chapter of the American Solar Energy Society: The most active student chapter in the country.
Dates & Times: October 3rd 9am-5pm
Community: Gainesville
Presented by: University of Florida Chapter of the American [...]
Applied maintains a real-time global interaction with all 14 solar panel factories it’s built around the world in the last two years. I could only laugh because crying would have been too embarrassing.
Not a single one is in America.
“About 95 percent of our solar business is outside the U.S.,” said Splinter. “Our biggest U.S. customer is a German-owned company in Oregon.
In October, Applied will be opening the world’s largest solar research center — in Xian, China.
Score 1 for environmental justice. (For once.)
A U.S. Federal Court has ruled the U.S. government failed to adequately evaluate the environmental risks of Monsanto’s new Franken-crop, the Roundup-Ready “superbeet.” As you may know from the film Food, Inc., the Monsanto Corporation is known for some truly monstrous practices, not the least of which are wreaking [...]
