What is the Real Cost of Power Production?
Market prices don’t reflect hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden costs of energy production to human health and the environment, a National Research Council panel said in a report released today.
Archive for October, 2009
Energy Out of the Blue: Generating Electric Power from the Clash of River and Sea Water
In the hunt for alternatives to polluting and climate-warming fossil fuels, attention has turned to where rivers meet the sea.
Energy Out of the Blue: Generating Electric Power from the Clash of River and Sea Water
In the hunt for alternatives to polluting and climate-warming fossil fuels, attention has turned to where rivers meet the sea. Here, freshwater and saltwater naturally settle their salinity difference, a phenomenon that two pioneering projects in Europe will try to harness to generate clean energy
Sunny Germans Triumph in U.S. Solar Decathlon
It’s all about the meters .
Sunny Germans Triumph in U.S. Solar Decathlon
It’s all about the meters .
Culinary Ecotourists Turn Wilderness Foraging into Dinner
Strolling through an equatorial rain forest or a northern pine forest can be thrilling enough, if only for the lavish scenery. But when you learn that you can eat a lot of what you see, a picturesque landscape takes on added intrigue. That’s the fun behind a burgeoning form of responsible leisure travel called culinary ecotourism–a new breed of gastronomic vacation, different from the languid style of those ch?teau-and-bistro foodie tours
Culinary Ecotourists Turn Wilderness Foraging into Dinner
Strolling through an equatorial rain forest or a northern pine forest can be thrilling enough, if only for the lavish scenery. But when you learn that you can eat a lot of what you see, a picturesque landscape takes on added intrigue. That’s the fun behind a burgeoning form of responsible leisure travel called culinary ecotourism–a new breed of gastronomic vacation, different from the languid style of those ch?teau-and-bistro foodie tours
Green Shoots from Brown Fields
When the Bethlehem Steel mill in Lackawanna, N.Y., finally shut its doors for good eight years ago, it took away thousands of jobs and left behind a polluted and unsightly mess. But in 2006, while the idle grain elevators and coke ovens sat rusting on the banks of Lake Erie, something unexpected happened.
Green Shoots from Brown Fields
When the Bethlehem Steel mill in Lackawanna, N.Y., finally shut its doors for good eight years ago, it took away thousands of jobs and left behind a polluted and unsightly mess.