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Green CEOs: Energy-Efficient Buildings Mean Big Business
Popular Mechanics — In the United States, buildings account for 39 percent of our total energy use, 12 percent of total water consumption, 68 percent of total electricity consumption and a whopping 38 percent of carbon dioxide emissions. With nearly 170,000 ...More…
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3. RE: Hearst Tower (Our Home) Certified
Popular Mechanics — Well, it's official. The new Hearst Tower, PM's home as of late June, has officially been certified with a "Gold" rating by the U.S. Green Building Council-the nation's leading accrediting body for environmentally sustainable ...More…
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The Problem with Silver Bullets
Popular Mechanics — PM contributing editor Glenn Reynolds has an interesting column on Tech Central Station today discussing what he calls "The Silver Bullet Fallacy." He's talking about our society's tendency to look for simple, one-fell-swoop solutions to ...More…
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Popular Mechanics — Sunlight Direct Hybrid Solar Lighting, Solatube Daylighting System TerraMai wood floors, GigaCrete Panels, Amazon Environmental paint Learn more about green design with our Solar Decathlon round-up! Milliken Carpeting, Smith & Fong's ...More…
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Live from SEJ Conference: The Future of Fuel
Popular Mechanics — A retro yellow school bus idling in a cloud of diesel may not seem like the most cutting-edge ride. But on a rainy afternoon during the Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Burlington, Vermont, I readily climbed into one for a quick ...More…
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Designer Hydrocarbons
Popular Mechanics — Sir Richard Branson poses in front of a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 before it embarks on the first test flight using bio-fuel made from coconut oil. (Photograph by Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images) The U.S. sits on some of the largest coal reserves ...More…
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MORE GREEN TECHNOLOGY STORIES
Popular Mechanics — For years, Paul Burns liked to futz around with adding recycled materials to the clay tiles his San Jose shop produced. Those just-for-fun experiments yielded BottleStone, a combination of clay, cement, and old glass that looks uncannily like ...More…
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Inside Solar Power's Top 5 Next Game-Changing Technologies
Popular Mechanics — When it comes to solar technology, no one is better equipped to separate the genuine potential from the hype than the Department of Energy, which spearheads the country's solar research efforts. So it's worth noting that the DOE's choice for ...More…
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Recycling By the Numbers: The Truth About Recycling
Popular Mechanics — Negligible amount recycled By Alex Hutchinson Published in the December 2008 issue. Drink cans Discarded/year 10 tons CO2/ton aluminum Bottles and jars 0.34 tons CO2/ton glass 2.5 tons CO2/ton newsprint Soft-drink bottles 1.7 tons CO2/ton ...More…
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MORE BRAND-NEW HOME PREPARATIONS FOR FALL
Popular Mechanics — Energy Information Administration for this winter's home heating costs is bleak. The EIA predicts a major spike in heating oil costs, which will rise about 25 percent for northeastern customers this year. The pinch isn't limited to the Yanks, ...More…
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Solar Thermal Power May Make Sun-Powered Grid a Reality
Popular Mechanics — Each Stirling Energy SunCatcher dish can produce 60,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year-enough to power a dozen U.S. homes. (Photograph by Jamey Stillings) The heat is used to run a Stirling engine, an elegant 192-year-old technology that ...More…
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Fifth Place /// Toyota Tundra 4x4 Crewmax SR5
Popular Mechanics — The automotive world is downsizing. The high cost of fuel has forced automakers to shrink both the size of vehicles and sales expectations, too. Big, thirsty and, yes, profitable vehicles just aren't moving off dealer lots the way they used to. ...More…