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Using Hair to Remove Crude Oil | Walking Green
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Using Hair to Remove Crude Oil. June 21, 2010 at 5:37 pm. Most people think of hair and fur as garbage, or compost. But it turns out to be a great natural alternative to oil containment booms. Has designed a process to bioremediate oil soaked hair mats into nutrient rich soil enhancer. Hair is very efficient at collecting oil out of the air, off surfaces like your skin and out of the water, even petroleum oil. Entry filed under: Uncategorized. Gen Y…what role are you going to take? Enter your comment here.
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Gen Y…what role are you going to take? | Walking Green
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Gen Y…what role are you going to take? March 16, 2010 at 5:42 am. 8220;The study, commissioned by IBM, found that young adults in Generation Y — the folks currently aged 18-24 — had both the highest levels of awareness of environmental issues, and were the biggest wasters of energy and water in the country.”. Entry filed under: articles. Using Hair to Remove Crude Oil. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting | Walking Green
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Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting. February 21, 2010 at 12:28 am. 8220;For more than a decade, 57-year-old roofer and writer Joseph Jenkins has been advocating that we flush our toilets down the drain and put a bucket in the bathroom instead. When a bucket in one of his five bathrooms is full, he empties it in the compost pile in his backyard in rural Pennsylvania. Eventually he takes the resulting soil and spreads it over his vegetable garden as fertilizer. Entry filed under: articles.
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From Photosynthesis to Photovoltaics | Walking Green
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From Photosynthesis to Photovoltaics. February 20, 2010 at 10:23 pm. 8220;Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a way to grow photovoltaic cells using tobacco. According to their recently published article in Nano Letters, Matt Francis and his team have developed a method of tweaking the genetic material of the tobacco mosaic virus to create chromophores, tiny molecular structures that turn light into high powered electrons.”. Read the rest of the article here.
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Concrete Made from Hemp. 8220;Buildings account for thirty-eight percent of the CO2 emissions in the U.S., according to the U.S. Green Building Council, and demand for carbon neutral and/or zero footprint buildings is at an all-time high. Now there is a new building material that is not just carbon neutral, but is actually carbon negative. Developed by U.K.-based Lhoist Group, Tradical Hemcrete. September 6, 2009 at 10:36 pm. White Roofs Catch On as Energy Cost Cutters. I’d like to find a way to ma...
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Dallas’ Eco-Community Could Be the Future of Urban Housing | Walking Green
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Dallas’ Eco-Community Could Be the Future of Urban Housing. February 21, 2010 at 12:02 am. 8220;In 2011, construction will begin on Forwarding Dallas, a hilltop-inspired community that combines renewable energy and rooftop greenery with practical and cost-effective design. Could we be looking at the model for sustainable urban architecture? But the community which will include apartments, a gymnasium, a cafe, a daycare, and exhibition space isn’t merely sustainable; it’s also a practical, cos...You are c...
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Where there is waste, there is money | Walking Green
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Where there is waste, there is money. February 2, 2010 at 7:04 pm. Think creatively and look at old phenomena with new eyes. Levant Power, a new venture started by some MIT grads, shows that technology can help us extract value from common movements we take for granted. The company is working to productize shock absorbers that produce electrical energy for use in vehicles. Get more information from their site. Entry filed under: businesses. Concrete Made from Hemp. From Photosynthesis to Photovoltaics.
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Slow is Good | Walking Green
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February 24, 2010 at 9:22 pm. From the New York Times. By halving its top cruising speed over the last two years, Maersk cut fuel consumption on major routes by as much as 30 percent, greatly reducing costs. But the company also achieved an equal cut in the ships’ emissions of greenhouse gases. The previous focus has been on ‘What will it cost? But now there is a third dimension, he said. What’s the CO2 footprint? Entry filed under: Uncategorized. Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting.
