Energy
Thermoceramix was one of eight finalists in Saint-Gobain's NOVA Competition at the Green Build Expo in San Francisco. On November 15, the eight finalists pitched their products to Saint-Gobain for a chance at a $50,000 grand prize.
Gobble, gobble! All of us at Planet Forward wish you and your families a very happy Thanksgiving! In honor of the holiday, we're providing you with some food for thought! This week we're featuring ideas from the Planet Forward community that... Read More
This week on Bloomberg West we featured an innovative water treatment project developed at Stanford University. The researchers are not only cleaning up our oceans, but they say they can produce energy from it, too!
This week on Bloomberg West we featured an innovative new toilet. Yes, you read that correctly. This toilet, designed at Cal Tech, is intended for use in the developing world and hopes to make the water there cleaner and healthier.
The George Washington University
Yolanda Rother was in for a rude awakening when she took her first steps on the campus of Georgetown University in January. It did not take much for her to realize life in D.C. would be much different than she originally anticipated. All she had to... Read More
This week we feature a new water-separation technology created at the University of Michigan. They say they've developed an energy-efficient way to clean up after oil spills.
The George Wasington University
Jorge Gadala-Maria reports on Germany's Schaufenster e-Mobility Project. Over three years, the initiative, which roughly translates to "window shopping e-mobility," will pump 180 million euros into Germany's electric vehicle industry.
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greenif.com
More energy from the sun hits Earth in one hour than all the energy consumed on our planet in an entire year. Water covers approximately 70 percent of our world's surface. The greatest opportunity to harness the sun’s renewable energy exists with... Read More
TradeSystemGuru.com
Challenges we face in the 21st century:
- According to Professor Albert Barlett of the University of Colorado, "Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food."
- Around the globe, the amount of arable farm land has been... Read More
When most people think of wastewater treatment, they probably don’t think of rocket science. Well, at Stanford we are bringing rocket technology to wastewater treatment. Sounds crazy, right? It turns out the two fields have a lot in common. In the... Read More