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www.bytr.nl In the Jan van Lieshoutstraat in Eindhoven (NL) – a mainly pedestrian street adjacent to a shopping mall – BYTR suggested that public space be cleared of lampposts and small planters, which were forming obstacles. The design – called the GREENSPOTLIGHT – combines these two elements, greenery and street lighting, into one integrated design: [...]

reefvideo.net coralsforconservation.com Coral Gardening from Jonathan Clay on Vimeo. Many reef aquarium owners get their corals by trading them with nearby reefkeepers. Once corals get to a certain size it’s pretty easy to propagate (or frag) them by cutting off a branch here or a a few polyps there. It’s usually cheaper and easier than [...]

CleanEdge Despite growing economic uncertainty over the last year, the three major clean-energy sectors — solar photovoltaics (PV), wind power, and biofuels — kept up a blistering growth rate, increasing 53 percent from $75.8 billion in 2007 to $115.9 billion in revenues in 2008, according to the Clean Energy Trends 2009 report released today by [...]

cnet Google now wants to organize your home’s energy information. The search giant on Tuesday muscled into the burgeoning smart-grid software business, showing off a prototype Web application that displays home energy consumption broken down by appliance. The software uses so-called smart meters, which can communicate home energy consumption back to utilities every few minutes. [...]

thefuelfilm.com Oscar contender FUEL is an insightful portrait of America’s addiction to oil and an uplifting testament to the immediacy of new energy solutions. Director, Josh Tickell, a young activist, shuttles us on a whirlwind journey to track the rising domination of the petrochemical industry—from Rockefeller’s strategy to halt Ford’s first ethanol cars to Vice [...]

reuters Elephant seals swimming under Antarctic ice and fitted with special sensors are providing scientists with crucial data on ice formation, ocean currents and climate change, a study released on Tuesday said. The seals swimming under winter sea ice have overcome a “blind-spot” for scientists by allowing them to calculate how fast sea ice forms [...]

International Herald Tribune The nation’s mayors voted Monday against spending taxpayer money to buy bottled water, a blow to the beverage industry that has enjoyed growing profit from water sales in recent years. A majority of about 250 mayors at the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Miami voted to phase out regular use of bottled [...]

yahoo news Singapore is known for its greenery but it may soon be recognised for its blue — as in blue water. : Recently finished after about three years of construction, the 240-million Singapore dollar (176 million US) Marina Barrage will create a new source of precious water in a city-state with almost no natural [...]

dailybreeze.com It’s an everyday conundrum, a question we’re all asked once, twice, maybe several times a week: “Paper or plastic?” How about, “Neither, I’ve got my own”? Turns out what was once the token accouterment of a Birkenstock-wearing few has become the latest fashion accessory. : Cobb’s site, which has been around since 2003, sells [...]

Kansas State University Research by two Kansas State University scientists could help with the large-scale cultivation and manufacturing of oil-rich algae in oceans for biofuel. : Algae are a diverse and simple group of organisms that live in or near water. Certain algal species are high in oil content that could be converted into such [...]