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Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University recently received a Presidential citation for developing an environmentally fri...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Call it the Manure Mandate. California’s utilities face a state-ordered goal: Provide one-fifth of electricity from renewable resources by 2010. No...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Can we really harness ocean waves to make electricity? We might actually do more.
Bought by KMXT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KOSU
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
We've all heard of individuals who go, "off the grid." You know, the folks who install solar panels or have their children ride stationary bicycles...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Remember that old-fashioned mode of transportation -- the trolley, or streetcar? It's making a comeback worldwide.
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
So, you want to get out and freshen up your garden a tad. Great! But, before you begin planting willy nilly, take a moment and consider if what you...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Think you know how to conserve water? Not like Australia, mate, it's in its worst drought on record. Some toddlers Down Under don't even know what ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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A German company has developed a way to get more mileage out of junked cars. Of course they have to shred them to pieces first.
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Okay, so you’re out in the clear waters of Hawaii and notice that algae are smothering the beautiful coral reefs just below the surface. What’s goi...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
From “Aardvark” to “zipper,” you can find it using Google. And, now you can also find Google’s Clean Energy 2030 initiative, a $4.4 trillion plan t...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
If your friends call you an “early adopter," you’ll want to take note of MIT student Ben Gulak’s way-cool emission-free vehicle. It looks like a cr...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. But near Serpa, in neighboring Portugal, the sun shines nearly all the time. This is why an internati...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that’s one of the things the automotive industry is looking at be...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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When it comes to selling solar cells, it pays to be cheap -- and thin. At least that’s what Professor Ken Durose at England’s Durham University is ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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If you build it, they will come. But they might not come back! This is what Brazilian engineers learned recently in their effort to save fish stocks.
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
“Cradle-to-Cradle” is the newest buzz in green manufacturing circles. It’s the next evolution of the idea of “Cradle-to-Grave, ” where recycled mat...
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
It’s no news flash that, over the years, one of the dirtiest sources of energy has been coal; in fact, it’s among the top contributors to carbon di...
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Remember mowing your grandparent’s lawn with a push mower? Back then, the older generation had push mowers. Everyone else was into power.
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940s, he developed the world's first "bio-car."
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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Attention feed lot operators. Panda Energy International in Hereford, Texas, wants your manure. But only the good stuff.
- Added: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Here’s a home that’s truly “outside the box” -- or inside, depending on where you stand. They’re made out of recycled steel shipping containers. Ye...
- Added: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Is that monthly home heating bill burning a hole in your wallet? I thought so. With the economic uncertainties of recent months, we all get that si...
- Added: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
What do you get when you cross a whale with a ship? A disaster at sea.
- Added: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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Medieval alchemy -- you’ve seen it in the movies: A wizard-like figure hovers over a glowing vat adding mysterious ingredients in his quest to tur...
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
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