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Photo by Taberandrew Despite San Francisco leading the way on banning plastic bags back in 2007 , California senators rejected a proposed plan to ban plastic bags statewide. The measure to remove carryout plastic bags from supermarkets, drug stores...
Photo: Flickr , CC Should Access for Regular Hybrids be Phased Out? In California, vehicles that meet certain fuel economy and tailpipe emission criteria are granted special access to the high occupancy vehicle lanes (HOV, aka the carpool lane). In...
Photo via KhE O2 , a communications company in the United Kingdom, has just launched the country’s first green cell phone ranking system — something of which Apple did not want the iPhone to be part . But G… Read the full story on...
The State of California has granted approval for a new solar thermal power plant. The 250-megawatt Beacon Solar Energy Project is the first solar thermal power plant to be licensed in the United States in nearly 20 years. Commercial operation is expected...
photo: BLM There’ve been multiple gigawatts of solar thermal power plants planned for various places in the California desert for some time, but finally some more of them are getting the approvals need so that construction can start: The US Bureau...
Sami and I have been preoccupied with pee for a long time, wondering why we don’t have urinals in our homes. After all, they use a lot less water than a toilet and are probably more sanitary as it is harder to miss. Now the Waterless Company,...
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Regine shares notes from Day 5 of her adventures at Postopolis!DF in Mexico City and highlights the work of MANGUM and Torolab . Ehécatl Cabrera Franco is an architect, he’s also the founder of the collective of the digital media and urban activism...
Methane from a wastewater treatment plant and an egg farm in California will be captured and fed to a power-producing fuel cell. Read more from the original source: Biogas to produce power from fuel cells Read More →
