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Indian Oil Corporation Partners With PetroAlgae - Fifth Oil Major to Back Algae Biofuels

Nov 4, 2009 7:55 AM

photo: PetroAlgae And then there were five... Indian Oil Corporation has become the fifth major oil company to stake a claim in the world of algae biofuels. IOCL has a signed a memorandum of unde...

Revolutionary Cable Suspended Solar: Cost-Effective Solar Structures (Video)

Nov 4, 2009 6:33 AM

Image credit: REM eyewear Only the other week I posted about an innovative project to integrate solar power with food production, and while the photo-shopped graphics for that post may have left ...

7 Airlines That Really Need to Green up Their Act

Nov 4, 2009 5:08 AM

Eight jet contrails from exhaust vapor mess with radiation balance. Photo by Jasmic via Flickr No, we are not saying air travel is green. But some airlines are a lot greener than others. In fact,...

India Struggling with Nearly Half a Million Tons of e-Waste...and Growing

Nov 3, 2009 9:55 AM

Photo via Nickjohnson India is drowning under 420,000 tons of e-waste a year. And while it isn't clear which percentage is generated within India and which percentage is imported, what is clear i...

36% of World's Flora and Fauna Now Threatened With Extinction

Nov 3, 2009 9:24 AM

The monitor lizard is under threat due to habitat loss and hunting by humans for food. All images: ICUN. The latest update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is in and if you were expecti...

A Solar Powered Blanket Creates Cell Phone-Powered Health Care for Africans

Nov 3, 2009 8:51 AM

Image via Portable Light iTEACH Blanket Project Page Sounds like a strange mix, but a blanket that sports solar power could help improve health care in Africa by allowing those people without ele...

U.S. Senate Considering Bill to Slow the Impacts of e-Waste

Nov 3, 2009 6:54 AM

Photo via Rojer Could cradle-to-cradle design become law? The beginnings of it seem to be hatching with a new bill going through the Senate. The bill, titled S.1397, the "Electronic Device Recycl...