Posted by Guest Editor, NPR on Thursday, January 12, 2012,
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Leif Ristroph and colleagues at NYU are designing tiny paper aircraft and making them fly using a pot, a speaker and a bunch of straws. When the subwoofer plays a low-frequency tone, it pushes the air above it up and down, which is funneled through the pot and straws, creating a flow of pulsing air.
The system simulates flapping flight by taking the flap out of the wing and putting it into the air. Ristroph explains what his aircraft are teaching him about stable flight. Continue reading ...
Posted by MicroEmpowering Editor on Tuesday, December 13, 2011,
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Visit our on line store, 92% of the profits are reverted to fund our Educational Workshops
On Dec 21, if you order FREE Two-Day Shipping before 8 p.m. PST (which varies by item) item gets to location before Christmas. Dec 21 is the last full day to order One-Day Shipping ($3.99/item)
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Posted by Editor, via greenspace on Monday, October 17, 2011,
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The Food and Drug Administration's about-face on the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), which is used to harden the plastic of sippy cups and baby bottles and to seal the inside of tin cans, could spur the adoption of bills in the California Legislature and U.S. Congress to restrict the chemical.
Despite a 2008 determination under President George W. Bush that the chemical was safe, the Obama administration said Friday that it would spend $30 million to study the effects of BPA. which has been lin... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor, via CNET on Sunday, October 9, 2011,
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What do you think of sustainable houses?
The technology used for building is improving every day, but if it's a super energy-efficient dwelling you're after, the tools are already well at hand. Once a year, the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association organizes a green buildings open house where energy nerds like us can see the latest in home efficiency.
 
Source: CNET
On the other hand, if you want to built a different house, to be in harmony with nature. You might want to consider these inexpen... Continue reading ...
Posted by Volunteer on Sunday, October 2, 2011,
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The world’s 9.9 billion acres of forest absorb roughly a quarter of human emissions of carbon dioxide, and help limit the increase of the gas in the atmosphere. While many healthy forests are robustly absorbing carbon, others are threatened by a warming climate.
Visit their page to experience the data and research in a interactive manner.NYT map http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/01/science/earth/forests.html?ref=earthAdditional coverage http://www.h2brasil.com/artigos-publicados/o... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor, via entrepreneur.com on Sunday, September 4, 2011,
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Do you have a "bajillion" things to do? Have you ever had a "light-bulb moment"? Entrepreneurs need to keep up with the new business-related words and lingo that pop up almost every day. The publishers of the Concise Oxford Dictionary have added 400 new words to the 12th edition of the publication, so we thought it might be useful to take a look at the new terms. Turns out several apply to business. We've selected the 10 need-to-know new words. Whether or not you start using them in your own bu... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor via DOE on Tuesday, August 2, 2011,
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DOE Announces Funding for Nationwide Student-Focused Clean Energy Business Competitions
Washington, D.C. - As part of the Obama Administration's effort to support and empower the next generation of American clean energy entrepreneurs, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced $2 million in available funding for the National University Clean Energy Business Challenge. This nationwide initiative will create a network of regional student-focused clean energy business creation competitions ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor, with quotes from the Associated Press report on Wednesday, March 30, 2011,
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Prime Minister Naoto Kan reiterated in a speech to parliament that
Japan was grappling with its worst problems since World War II."This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest
crises for Japan" in decades, said Kan, dressed in one of the blue work
jackets that have become ubiquitous among bureaucrats since the
tsunami. He said the crises remained unpredictable, but added: "We will
continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert."  Source: NASA (Picture1 red = previously popula... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor C on Friday, March 11, 2011,
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This is a great idea, kudos to Katherine V. Smith and her team at The Center for Corporate Citizenship (at Boston University). We hope other Universities will do the same.
"Dear MicroEmpowering,
As the world begins to comprehend the devastating impact of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the Center extends its deepest sympathies to the people and businesses struggling against extraordinary circumstances. Our community of companies includes several headquartered in Japan and hundreds of othe...
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Posted by Editor on Tuesday, March 8, 2011,
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For decades, developers have been creating smart growth communities—places with a mix of land uses and housing types, built compactly to make walking and biking easier—throughout the county in urban, suburban, and rural locations. Some communities structure their approval and entitlement process to encourage construction of this type of neighborhood. Other communities are less familiar with these neighborhoods and may present more hurdles in the approval process because the design and lay... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor on Friday, January 14, 2011,
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CHECK BELOW FOR DONATIONS: Headquarters INVESTS RIO - Rua Mexico, 125 - Centro Rio (in the shop of the Tourism Department in front of elevators) HemoRio - The organ of the State Department of Health and Civil Defense is urging the population to donate blood. The blood center needs to send 300 bags of blood to the mountain region. The address is HemoRio at Rua Frei Caneca, No. 8, in downtown Rio The agency operates daily from 7am to 18 hours, including Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. To be a ... Continue reading ...
Posted by on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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By Ana Murphy
According to some EPA guidelines due to the importance of accurate cost information in making the decisions sketched out above, the term “environmental cost” has been introduced into the vocabulary of environmental managers.
Today we are starting a series of posts related to the definition(s) and the measurements used to evaluate environmental costs. Environmental costs are often hard to define from a business stand point. In the past 10 years they are more likely to be qua... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor C on Friday, October 29, 2010,
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The U.S.
recycling rate for post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is 28 percent
in 2009, marking the sixth straight year that the nation’s recycling rate has
increased, despite a four percent decrease in the availability of PET
containers, by weight, according to a new report.
The report, “2009
Report on Post Consumer PET Container Recycling Activity” (PDF), also details the end uses for a record 937
million pounds of recycled PET used in manufacturing applications, reflecti... Continue reading ...
Posted by Newswire on Thursday, October 14, 2010,
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Via NREL Newswire
The kids are back in school in post-Katrina New Orleans, and there's light at the end of the classroom. Five years after Katrina flushed water through the failed floodwalls, destroying homes, damaging classrooms and dashing dreams, the opportunity to build green schools that save millions of dollars on energy bills is just within reach for the school districts that serve New Orleans.Hurricane Katrina knocked out dozens of schools along with thousands of homes, and for quite a... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor C on Thursday, October 7, 2010,
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Via U.S. Department of Energy U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Council of Environmental
Quality (CEQ) Chair Nancy Sutley recently announced plans for the
installation of solar on the roof of the White House residence. The
plans are for two solar panels that will provide electricity, and a
solar hot water heater that will heat water for use in the residence.
The announcement came on the one-year anniversary of President
Obama's Executive Order (EO) 13514 on Leadership in Environmental,
Ene... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor on Monday, August 23, 2010,
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Courtesy of the IRS via email - Summertime Tax Tip 2010-21
Did you make a donation to a charity this year? If so, you may be able to take a deduction for it on your 2010 tax return. Here are the top 10 things the IRS wants every taxpayer to know before deducting charitable donations.
1. Charitable contributions must be made to qualified organizations to be deductible. You can ask any organization whether it is a qualified organization and most will be able to tell you. You can also check ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ana M on Saturday, July 24, 2010,
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Via Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University
Our colleague and good friend Steve Schneider, the Melvin and Joan Lane
Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and senior fellow
at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford, died on July
19, 2010, while traveling from a meeting in Stockholm to London. Steve
was not only a man of formidable intellectual depth and breadth, but
also a committed and compassionate advisor, mentor, teacher and friend.
... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor on Wednesday, July 7, 2010,
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By Rose Anderson
Providing access to safe water is a priority for all
nations, as water is a limited resource essential to human health and economic
activity. For many people in Africa, there is little or no access to safe
drinking water. Water scarcity in Africa is expected to increase in the near
future due to economic growth and increasing populations. By 2025, 45% of the
populat... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor on Thursday, June 10, 2010,
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In the United States, electricity is generated in many different
ways, with a wide variation in environmental impact. Electricity
generation from the combustion of fossil fuels contributes toward
unhealthy air quality, acid rain, and global climate change.
Many electricity customers can choose their provider of electricity
or can purchase green power from their utility. In fact, you might now
have the option of choosing cleaner, more environmentally friendly
sources of energy.
The Tool Power ... Continue reading ...
Posted by AC on Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
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by Scott Gilmore - May 21, 2010. Scott Gilmore is the Executive Director of Peace Dividend Trust.
I was sitting at the great Irish pub
across from the office watching the Yankees game, when a clip of Sean
Penn came on. Turns out he’s in Haiti now. (I thought he was in jail,
but I don’t keep up like I should.) Sean has set up a clinic or a
school, or something, and Haiti is doing much better now, thank you
very much. Somehow this didn’t surprise me. I thought that’s ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Team on Saturday, March 20, 2010,
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Posted by Ana M on Saturday, December 5, 2009,
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Did you know that 25% of the US population doesn't have a bank account to begin with? This is a rather surprising and sad story from Ylan Q. Mui to the Washington Post... One-quarter of American households -- about 60 million people -- have
limited or no access to banks or other traditional financial services,
with low-income and black families among the hardest hit, according to
a government report released Wednesday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/02/AR20091202... Continue reading ...
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