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100 ways to be 100: sources
1 Your healthy diet The Metabolic Typing Diet, William Wolcott : New York: Doubleday, 2000 4 Cook from scratch The carcinogenic bisphenol A: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222978/ Phthalate: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2801170/ 5 Eat a “power Read More...
A magic wand saves energy while making tea
We boil too much water for the cups of tea we drink. And as the leading tea-drinkers in the western world, the British are in the right position to figure that out. They have calculated that the collective extra energy used to bring a whole kettle to boil when you only need a cup’s worth of water Read More...
Aerodynamic trucks would save billions of gallons of diesel
Energy saving is good business. Take the trucks that carry the majority of freight around the United States. Two million tractor-trailer trucks burn about 36 billion gallons of diesel per year. Researchers have discovered that if 18-wheelers retrofit trailer skirts along the bottom sides of trucks, Read More...
The dawn of efficient, clean and connected micropower
Fossil fuel, coal and nuclear energy driven power plants not only are a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions, they are also quite inefficient. A lot of power—up to 20 percent—is lost in the long distance distribution from these big plants to the end user. This is why microgrids are quickly Read More...
Farmers discover new cash crop: Renewable energy
In the fields of eastern Iowa the same Amish families have tended the land for centuries. Amish like to be independent. That’s why they like—off the grid—renewable energy. Many are joining the new tariff programs that are popping up from Pennsylvania to Washington that allow farmers to trade Read More...
China’s central bank urges support for carbon-cutting industries
Following the deal hashed out earlier this month between China and the US to cut carbon emissions, China’s central bank has called on banks and businesses in the nation to back industries that will reduce CO2 emissions. The most polluted country in the world aims to cap all carbon emissions and Read More...
Sustainable banking is lucrative and has a conscience
As it turns out you can run a successful bank, while maintaining a moral conscience. The 2008 financial crisis left many of us skeptical about the ethics that drive financial decisions made around the world. The idea that you must sacrifice morality in order to make more money is nonsense, as Read More...
Largest solar plant opens in US
The largest solar plant in the world opened in the US and is now 100 percent operational. The plant, called Topaz, is located in California and is truly massive in size and energy output. Topaz produces over 500-megawatts—enough energy to power 160,000 homes—spans over nine square miles and is Read More...
Electric bacteria cold be source of future fuel
Standard approaches to green energy are great for consumers, but aren’t very useful for larger machinery, or huge cargo ships. The battery technology powering your Prius or the windmills that dot open landscapes don’t produce enough energy to get a containership from Stockholm to San Francisco. Read More...
Walking in the neighborhood protects against dementia
This almost sounds too simple to be true: The neighborhood you live in—and how much you walk in it—significantly impacts cognitive decline as you age. Researchers from University of Kansas analyzed neighborhoods by how easily you could traverse them by walking and then compared that analysis to Read More...