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Waterlife, a fascinating documentary by the National Film Board of Canada and director Kevin McManoh, explores the wide-ranging consequences of this concentrated environmental apocalypse. It tells the epic story of the water’s journey from Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean through the lives of some of the 35 million people who rely on it for [...]

Andy Hobsbawm presents an interesting an innovative green ad campaign at TED…

The folks over at Core77 have just posted an interesting and innovative take on a replacement for the common clear plastic water bottle.  With over 60 million water bottles being used annually in the US alone, of which over 80% end up as garbage (which is as much a behavioural problem as it is a packaging [...]

One of the largest challenges facing the concept of electric cars has been the lack of a reliable and readily accessible power distribution network.  No one would want to get into their car and head out on a trip without knowing there was available power within their 150 to 200 km range.  Well,  the Associated Press published this [...]

Back on July 18th 2008, I posted a story about an environment challenge that Al Gore issued to the American people:
“Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years”
Many people at the time felt that his plan was beyond [...]

How many times have you seen an idea and thought to yourself: “well, duh!”  This is one of those ideas that is best filed under the “why hasn’t everyone been doing this for years now” heading.  For one of its Back to School promotions in the Sam’s Club/WalMart chains, Hewlett Packard is offering an HP [...]

A friend from work told me about this little Facebook app called: iamgreen. Essentially it asks you some simple questions and uses that data to rank how green you are (in a superficial and simplistic way), which you can then use to compare your results to your friends and colleagues. You can also [...]

I have been interested in alternative energy for some time now, specifically in the area of solar cells.  I have also been frustrated by the lack of momentum in the areas of innovation and ingenuity when it came to solar radiation capture, storage and distribution.  I guess my frustration stemmed from the knowledge that we [...]

One of the more significant challenges that solar radiation has had to deal with as a viable alternative energy source is storage.  To date, storage of solar energy has been inefficient and costly.  Well, some researchers at MIT seem to have discovered/developed an innovative, clean and cheap way by mimicking how plants store the sun’s energy.  [...]

SeaGen’s commercial scale wave power turbine has officially gone online and it putting power into the grid.  More than 4 times the size of other tidal power turbines, this is one of many different technologies that holds the hope of sustainable and clean power generation for the future.
“SeaGen’s power is being intentionally constrained to 300kW [...]