December 11, 2007 via dezeen.com

Aeroscraft ML866 is a proposed new type of airborne vehicle that combines bouyancy (as in an airship) with dynamic lift (as in an aeroplane or helicoptor).

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by michael – December 11, 2007 via Ecorazzi.Com

Larry Hagman, who rocketed to fame as J.R. Ewing in the hit television show Dallas, briefly visited the Hollywood Goes Green conference today and spoke a bit about his passions for renewable energy. While the 76-year-old actor played an oil tycoon on TV, his personal home doesn’t use a drop of it. In fact, it produces enough energy to power a dozen or more average households. Unbelievably, Larry Hagman has the largest residential solar-power system in the United States — a 102.7KW array that produces 150,000 kilowatt-hours per year!

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by Luke McKinney – December 11, 2007 via DailyGalaxy.Com

Buildings are great. They keep you warm, you don’t get wet when it rains, and they’re chock full of electrical sockets you can plug your Wii into. But after thousands of years of construction it seems that architects have gotten bored of the “four walls and a roof” idea.

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by Michael Kanellos – December 7, 2007 via News.Com

Although hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, it’s a royal pain to make.

Most industrial hydrogen producers currently make the gas by heating methane and water to 815 degrees Celsius and causing a reaction. Unfortunately, this process generates 9.3 kilograms of carbon dioxide for every kilo of hydrogen, so it’s not environmentally friendly or cheap.

Other companies like Signa Chemistry have come out with chemical catalysts that can strip hydrogen from water.

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by admin – December 6th, 2007 via GreenTechGazette.Com

That’s correct, a group of Welshmen have created a hydrogen fuel cell minibus that will go on sale for only $190,000. Researchers at the University of Glamorgan in Wales developed the fuel cell minibus known as the Hydrogen Bus and put it on display at the Tenth Grove Fuel Cell Symposium in October 2007.

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by Girl on The Avenue -August 14, 2007 via GreenRoofs.WordPress.Com

Sod roofs are back in style, according to a report in Oregon’s Mail Tribune. The report quotes the aptly-named Edmond Snodgrass, co-author of Green Roof Plants: a resource and planting guide (right), who runs Emory Knoll Farms, the first nursery in the US dedicated solely to the propagation and sale of green roof plants.

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January 18, 2007 via NativeEnergy.Com

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By Gavin Clarke – 18th January 2007 via TheRegister.Co.Uk

Salesforce.com has become Silicon Valley’s latest high-tech convert to the green computing crusade, committing $126,000 to become “carbon neutral” this year.

The software as a service (SaaS) pioneer is supporting five renewable energy projects to compensate for the nearly 20,000 tones of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere by its offices, staff travel, and data center operations last year.

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18th January 2007 via DailyMail.Co.Uk

Tesco has boarded the environmental bandwagon with a £500 million “green revolution”.

Britain’s biggest retailer plans to install wind turbines on store rooftops, shift to petrol derived from plants, and sell energy efficient kettles and cheaper long-life lightbulbs.

It aims to move away from flying in fresh food from around the globe and inform shoppers how much energy was used in the production of items on the shelves.

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by EcoGeek.org on 01.18.07 via TreeHugger.Com

An Google internal memo entitled “Big Goals and Directions,” was recently leaked to the public. Amongst promises to expand advertising revenue another billion dollars, and to control spam in 20 different languages, Google also expounded on plans to increase its green power consumption to ten megawatts in the short term, and sees that as a step toward complete carbon neutrality.

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