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ZapRoot: Scurvy Green Seas

June 21, 2008 – 12:39 am

On this week’s episode: Greening the scurvy seas with SkySails cargo shipping. Renewzle makes DIY solar paneling your home easy. Michel de Broin’s Flintstones-like car goes to court.

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News: Sunny Outlook: Can Sunshine Provide All U.S. Electricity

September 22, 2007 – 2:21 am

Climate Crisis Coalition News: Sunny Outlook: Can Sunshine Provide All U.S. Electricity? By David Biello, Scientific American, September 19, 2007. “In the often cloudless American Southwest, the sun pours more than eight kilowatt-hours* per square meter of its energy onto the landscape. Vast parabolic mirrors in the heart of California’s Mojave Desert concentrate this solar [...]

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Going Solar

July 13, 2007 – 5:05 pm

Climate Crisis Coalition A Chinese farmer has made his own solar-powered water heater out of beer bottles and hosepipes. “I invented this for my mother. I wanted her to shower comfortably,” says Ma Yanjun, of Qiqiao village, Shaanxi province. Ma’s invention features 66 beer bottles attached to a board. The bottles are connected to each [...]

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Germany Aims for 45% of Electricity From Renewable Resources by 2030.

July 6, 2007 – 5:15 am

From: Climate Crisis Coalition Germany Aims for 45% of Electricity From Renewable Resources by 2030. Agence France-Presse, July 5, 2007. “Germany plans to boost the percentage of electricity generated by renewable resources to 45 percent by 2030 in a bid to curb global warming, environment minister Sigmar Gabriel said Thursday. Gabriel told reporters that a [...]

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