Solar Panels
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Solar Cells Made from Glass Clippings
Healthy and Green Living &bull Feb 5, 2012
Hello, I saw this on Care2 and thought you'd like it as well. Care2 is the largest and most trusted information and action site for people who care to make a difference in their lives and the world. MIT researcher… Full Story »
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Sao Paulo's Ecovila Residence Receives Brazil's First Solar Track
Inhabitat &bull Feb 3, 2012
The Ecovila, located on the coast of Sao Paulo, is the first residential structure in Brazil to install solar panels that follow the motion of the sun. The solar system, along with two wind turbines, will provide enough energy for… Full Story »
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HOK's Net Zero "Battery Park" for San Francisco Has an Algae Facade
Inhabitat &bull Feb 3, 2012
HOK's San Francisco office received a jury recognition award for their groundbreaking net zero "Battery Park" design that has a remarkable algae facade designed by Charles Lee. A combination of load reduction, waste heat recovery, and waste to energy strategies… Full Story »
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Living Off Grid - Forest Fire
Modern Homesteading &bull Feb 3, 2012
We heard they had a fire here about 15 years ago, a pretty bad one. I know the people we bought this land from were very concerned. They cut all of the low limbs off the trees both large and small and cleaned them up and either burned them in their wood stove or got rid of them some other way. This place looked like a park when we bought it. They had done the whole lower 20 acres and started on the upper 20. They mowed what they could and even had a fire fighting system of sorts they… Full Story »
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MIT Researchers Find a Way To Make Solar Panels from Grass Clippings
Inhabitat &bull Feb 3, 2012
What if generating solar energy at home required little more than mixing some grass clippings with inexpensive chemicals? That's exactly what MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has found to be the case. The scientist says creating a solar cell could be… Full Story »
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DuPont and Suntech Sign Strategic Agreement
ENN: Green Building &bull Feb 3, 2012
To help increase the supply of photovoltaic materials and technologies for the growing global market for solar energy, the world's largest producer of solar panels has signed a strategic agreement with DuPont. The agreement focuses on technology advancements, supply chain… Full Story »
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Toyota breaks out of China's rare earth shackles
SmartPlanet News &bull Feb 3, 2012
That's what Toyota Motor Corp. is doing as it develops an alternative technology that could trivialize China's stranglehold on the supply of rare earth metals that are vital to the company's Prius hybrid car and its electric vehicles. Toyota "has… Full Story »
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Toyota busting out of China's rare earth shackles
SmartPlanet News &bull Feb 3, 2012
That's what Toyota Motor Corp. is doing as it develops an alternative technology that could trivialize China's stranglehold on the supply of rare earth metals that are vital to the company's Prius hybrid car and its electric vehicles. Toyota "has… Full Story »
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Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson to Sell Eco-Friendly Home
ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip &bull Feb 1, 2012
Categories: Gallery, HomeTags: ryan reynolds, scarlett johansson. Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson have put the house they shared during their two years of marriage on the market. For a surprisingly reasonable (compared to other celebrity homes) $3.65 million dollars, you… Full Story »
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WTO rules against China's rare earths stockpiling
SmartPlanet News &bull Feb 1, 2012
Rare earth elements are vital to future energy technologies. China lowered the price of rare earths internally while limiting supply on the global market. China's rationing of rare earth minerals used in the production of high tech and renewable energy hardware has run afoul of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. Beijing has time to comply with the ruling before a penalty is assessed. The European Union, Mexico, and the United… Full Story »
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Baseball hat shines with built-in solar panel
SmartPlanet News &bull Jan 31, 2012
Solar panels are being squeezed in all sorts of places lately, even the brims of baseball hats. SmartPlanet's Sumi Das checks out this solar cap that will never leave you in the dark. Full Story »
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The Eco-Friendly Food Truck - Green Truck
The Alternative Consumer &bull Jan 30, 2012
I'm old enough to remember when most street food vendors sold their chow out of carts with limited menus consisting primarily of fetid delicacies like over-boiled hotdogs aged to perfection in a caldron of used bath water, or pretzels coated… Full Story »
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D-Hotel: Historic Windmill Transformed into a Modern Designer Retreat
Inhabitat &bull Jan 30, 2012
Dutch firm Govaert and Vanhoutte Architects have transformed a beautiful windmill and adjacent farm building into the innovative D-hotel in Kortijk. An iconic symbol of the Netherlands, the windmill rises on a farm site around a series of buildings formerly… Full Story »
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Shop your way to free solar panels
Green Thing Blog &bull Jan 30, 2012
(Image: Springwise ) Do The Bright Thing is a Dutch company that have set up a great way for you to shop online. Every time you use the site to purchase something, 10% of its value will be invested into… Full Story »
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Cheap LED lights drive push towards solar in developing countries
SmartPlanet News &bull Jan 28, 2012
Solar prices are dropping; even so, solar power still costs more than just feeding off the electrical grid in most developed countries. But thanks to the falling price and low-energy use of LED lights, solar power is beginning to take… Full Story »
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First Solar-Powered Electric Car Charging Stations Open in Sofia, Bulgaria
Inhabitat &bull Jan 27, 2012
This month, A1 Co., Ltd. and BIES Ltd. opened the first set of solar-powered electric car charging stations across Sofia, Bulgaria. Built as simple structures, each station simply uses solar panels to collect solar energy and a special module for… Full Story »
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Introducing a column from Pure Green Magazine
Green Living Online &bull Jan 27, 2012What motivates you to live green? Is it your health, core values or current trends? With each passing day it seems there are more and more influences, both culturally and in the media, sending the message that you should be making a bigger effort to live green. And I can't say I disagree, but too often that message is scary - toxins in your food and beauty… Full Story »
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Introducing Pure Green - What inspires you?
Green Living Online &bull Jan 27, 2012What motivates you to live green? Is it your health, core values or current trends? With each passing day it seems there are more and more influences, both culturally and in the media, sending the message that you should be making a bigger effort to live green. And I can't say I disagree, but too often that message is scary - toxins in your food and beauty… Full Story »
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Oil firm's African solar farm will transmit sub-Med electricity to Italy
SmartPlanet News &bull Jan 27, 2012
Top Oilfield Services, a Tunisian oil and gas engineering company, is joining with Nur Energie - a British solar firm with a French name - to build a giant solar park in the Tunisian desert that will transmit electricity under the Mediterranean to Italy. The ambitious project would build "a new low-loss transmission line to Italy" that would go live in 2016 according to a press release from the Desertec Foundation, a global sustainable energy group with Mediterranean roots and strong German ties. It does not say… Full Story »
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The House Arc - A Cute, Modular, Off-Grid Prefab
The Alternative Consumer &bull Jan 26, 2012
The House Arc is the brainchild of Bellomo Architects. The small-footprint, modular, off-grid housing solution is designed to be shipped in pieces (fabricated locally if possible) to a site and erected by the user or community. The designers envision the… Full Story »
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