Ett klick för skogen

If you’re like me you have a web browsing morning routine. You have a section of your bookmarks that you click through each morning. For me it’s some comics, some blogs and a couple news sites. However, mixed in there I have “A click for the forest.” Clicking the button on the site once per […]

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Concrete Nation

There is a movement in America today that seems quite ridiculous, very popular, and a waste of natural resources. It is for the sake of clean concrete.
I have always been somewhat been puzzled by the air blowers used by lawn maintenance people. This device is immensely popular here in the Midwest. On […]

International Grandmothers Enviro Movement

>I love seeing stories like this.  There remains much hope about the future of our world. 
 Let’s hear it for the Grammas!
from Suddenly Senior International Grandmothers’ Enviro Movement
By Carson Walker
The Associated Press
Sunday 29 July 2007
Hot Springs, South Dakota - Several times a day over three days, 13 women from around the world, several in their 80s, gathered around […]

State Question 1 grant to help Carson City acquire 86-acres as open space

CARSON CITY, Nev.—In a rare real estate deal that left everyone involved smiling, the Carson City Board of Supervisors unanimously decided last week to buy the 86-acre Buzzy’s Ranch property with the intention of keeping the space largely undeveloped. “Right now, I’m in heaven,” said Open Space Manager Juan Guzman, who helped broker the deal. […]

The House energy bill - two steps forward, two steps backward

I’m trying to determine whether the state of the House energy bill means that Speaker Pelosi won some hard compromises, or whether she was handed her head, politically speaking. It may be some of both, although I’m presently leaning toward the latter.

Fox Attacker: Global Warming

I’ve recently become a Fox Attacker. You should consider becoming one too.
Game show version of a typical Fox Attacks clip:
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Fox is not a legitimate news channel. They consistently misrepresent facts, manufacture terror, and slander progressives.
We’re fighting back by identifying and calling all of FOX’s advertisers. All of them. Particularly local advertisers […]

Apartment Tower To Feature Integrated Wind Turbines

This 42-story apartment tower, under construction at Elephant and Castle in London, will feature a roof with an array of integrated wind turbines. The three turbines are each nine meters in diameter and are design to provide power the building’s lighting systems.

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WOW. Now THIS IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!

Will be doing a post about the potential for Maglev Vertical Turbines up top.
It was suggested many more times the energy in the updraft and downwind drag can be achieved with a maglev VAWT on top.
Thanks to treehugger.com and others for this.

Urbines. That’s what World Architecture News labels urban wind turbines; neat neologism.
Ben Coleman of […]

Tilting at Windmills? Not in my backyard.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/11/business/wind.php
“It just makes sense,” said Mercurio, who is 61 and runs a company selling and installing windmills. “This is a clean, renewable source of energy.”
Some of his neighbors say it is also annoying. They say it is too big. They say it is too noisy. And some residents in this middle-class borough have gone […]