which take about 35 minutes by car, without traffic, or well over an hour on public transportation with multiple transfers,
from the city center. The Apple store in The british-frequented wealthy beach town of Marbella just opened last week.
This building was previously a hotel, which would mean it would need rezoning for commercial use.
Five Virginia schools and one school in Hawaii are currently participating in the pilot with planned expansions to include schools collaborating with Hofstra University in New york
We printed a space shuttle out of two Play-Doh colors. They were blown just away. Kids might not learn in the abstract,
of course--notably those involving enabling energy efficiency, electrical vehicle infrastructure, more cost-effective renewable energy technologies,
Back in October, NASA satellites spotted a massive crack that cuts across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.
The crack was discovered by a team of NASA scientists assigned to Operation Icebridge, a six year study of changes in the Arctic and Antarctic.
Mysterious site spotted from space Mysterious Ëoenazca Lines ruins discovered in Saudi desert China s massive Ëoepollution cloud can be seen from space NASA satellites unearth Egypt s lost
Interactive map reveals effects of climate change in your neighborhood NASA video shows global warming is real Rare photos of Ëoeuncontacted tribe reveal a disappearing society Infographic:
The pests have become a silent scourge in homes, hotels, and even movie theaters throughout major cities worldwide.
TV spots starring Roscoe the bed bug sniffing dog, mattress encasement ads on the subway, commercials with people freezing bugs,
when English philosopher John Locke traveled across Europe with a supply of kidney bean leaves as defense against bed bug bites.
Bedbug genome uncovers pesticide resistance Beyond bedbugs-lay your head to rest in the greenest hotel Watch robots climb trees,  helicopter  in and sniff bugs
One of the most interesting parts about these trees, according to Peltier, is that spectators understand his message without any guidance.
which made its name from the launch of the Nano compact, the world's cheapest car,
which will reduce the cost of transportation. That's a significant benefit. Often, where the energy resource is is far away from where you want to consume that resource.
the Four Seasons Hotel there was already moving toward sustainability. Since 2005, the hotel has reduced its water pressure,
 implemented a colder wash cycle for laundry  and replaced hundreds of incandescent light bulbs.
I spoke with Marvin Dixon, the hotel's director of engineering, about some of the big steps toward sustainability taken there recently.
which in one year reduced the waste the hotel sent to a landfill by about 120 tons,
How long does the material for the compost actually stay in the hotel? Is there a compost pile somewhere inside the Four Seasons?
Today, I'm producing 25 percent of the hotel's electrical needs 20 percent cheaper than Â
Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia
Aztec"cuisine breeds gourmet taste for rare bugs"MEXICO CITY oe  Ant larva, wild boar, fly eggs, wild greens:
In San francisco, Mexico city native Monica Martinez is working on a taco cart concept called Don Bugito,
When people approach the cart, some are shocked, she said. But people after the first bite are like,
transportation, energy, green building, foodif Baltimores planning director has his way, the citys east and west sides--known for blocks of abandoned
Today, he is counting on a new light rail line, new zoning codes and a new food czar to help transform the blighted sections infamously portrayed in HBOS The Wire.
Harborplace was one of the original waterfront destinations. Its a great asset to the city.
Whats the future of transportation in Baltimore? The big gorilla on the map is our new red line light rail that will connect East Baltimore to West Baltimore
and intersect with current north and south light rail lines. For the last 20 years, weve had a rail system,
How will the trains for this new line be different? It will be a leaner, meaner, quieter, smaller rail car.
One of the less appealing things is that the original line has very long, clunky cars that are not low to the ground,
so you have to get on special ramps. This new light rail line is looking at systems that are in place in Portland and Seattle.
Part of it is going to be a surface portion where cars will share the road. Its been a hard sell
because people envision what we have on Howard Street, and its going to be much more friendly,
very popular transit option called the Circulator. It runs very reliably, east to west, every 20 minutes,
Å Lets cater to the automobile, save manufacturing and separate uses, like commercial and residential.
No more new surface parking lots downtown, period. New zoning codes will ease restrictions on community gardens
Amtrak goes to the cowsi don't eat a lot of meat. I prefer that the animals I do eat lived in an at least somewhat healthful and respectful fashion,
or pig feces paving roads didn't disturb me much, but a train chugging down the track on cow fat gave me some pause yesterday.
For the next year, Amtrak's Heartland Flyer passenger train will make the 206-mile trip between Fort worth
and Oklahoma city on tallow the rendered fat of cattle. Tallow is also an ingredient of some soaps and candles.
Possibly to make public transportation even greener, the Federal Railroad Administration gave Amtrak $274, 000 to see how the beef-based fuel would fare in the 3, 200-horsepower engine of a P32-8 locomotive.
The cows came from Texas. The P32-8 engine did need not much modification to accept the biofuel
but two new power assemblies were installed in order to gauge wear, tear and deposits over the 12-month trial.
Amtrak will also gather and analyze data on the locomotive's exhaust. Roy Deitchman, Amtrak vice president of environmental, health and safety, in a statement:
Amtrak travel is already more energy efficient than most other forms of intercity transportation. If the test shows this use of a renewable fuel in our locomotive is successful, its a home run for our passengers, for our partners and for the planet.
Each day Amtrak runs more than 300 trains over about 21,000 miles of track in North america. Should B20 become functionally and economically feasible,
that could be a lot of cows. That would also be a lot less pollution. In the name of reducing emissions and fuel usage,
however, I'd rather Americans just choose trains over planes and cars when they can.
Still if it works, I'm okay with the bovine fuel as long as Americans don't start claiming domestic energy as an excuse to eat (even more) cheeseburgers.
Top Image: Flickr/Cameliatwubottom Image: Heartland Flyer
Beijing invests millions in laser writing scheme for pork productsbeijing-Â With a few days left before Chinese New Year,
a Carrefour supermarket in  down-town  Beijing is saturated with customers, pushing past mountains of bagged roast duck and revolving pyramids of luxury chocolate.
A complete pig carcass hangs behind the meat counter, illuminated by a blue LED light, revealing a series of numbers printed on the meat's surface.
Å Now we can track exactly where the meat has travelled from, which means if there is an outbreak of poisoning,
Most Internet of things investments will fund transport and logistics projects including GPS tagging for shipping containers,
and automated traffic control systems, according to the Internet of things Association in Shenzhen, southern China. The Chinese government sees the Internet of things as a way to automate and rationalise governance.
and designs and develops space flight hardware. It currently has two piece of its hardware on the International Space station and two on the Space shuttle mission.
Yesterday I spoke with Stefanie Countryman, the centers director of business development and director of its K-12 science education payloads.
and spiders in space and why she wouldnt be a good candidate for space flight.
It could be sponsored a NASA scientist, and then theyd decide what hardware they need and theyd use us as the payload developer.
We support quite a few NASA-sponsored scientists. We also partner with commercial companies to fly certain science experiments.
Countryman loading a butterfly experiment that flew on STS-129 Tell me about some of the hardware youve developed to put the experiments on a spacecraft.
called a CGBA (commercial generic bioprocessing apparatus). We have two on the International Space station and two units on the shuttle, each about the size of a mid-deck locker.
So when our payloads are up and running on the Space station, we can communicate directly,
What does the end of the Space shuttle era mean for you guys? Honestly, our center has a long history of fling on the shuttle.
STS-135 was our 39th shuttle mission. Were part of the University of Colorado, and we train mostly masters students.
On one hand, with the shuttle program ending, it definitely impacts how we educate our students. Our students who come through the center are highly sought after by corporations
and NASA because they get hands-on experience in developing the hardware, see the scientists load the science into the hardware,
There are other space programs--Japanese, European and Russian vehicles and the commercial vehicles that hopefully will come online in 2012.
Well have to develop hardware that will support these other vehicles, and well have to learn the other systems.
We know the NASA paperwork and the flying systems but we dont know that, for instance, with the Japanese.
So it impacts our center and its really a sad day. Is it possible for experimental purposes to create microgravity On earth?
An astronaut on STS-126 activating an experiment Tell me about the spider in space for your K-12 program.
native to southern parts of the United states. Theyre on the Space station, coming back on the 135 shuttle.
If you had an opportunity to travel in space, what experiment would you conduct? I get sick on roller coasters,
so Im probably not the best person to ask. I guess I would just like to see the life science experiments in space continue.
Now that the shuttle is retired, its hard for the life sciences. The model is that we send our experiments to space
Without the shuttle we dont have that capability anymore. There is some hardware being developed to do some analysis in space while on the station,
and that the vehicles that can eventually bring home samples get online pretty quickly. We built this big space station,
and it was supposed to be a science platform, and Id really like to see it used as a science platform
Turning algae into oil the NASA way Scientists create high-capacity batteries from algae Pressure-cooking method makes an algae-based biofuel Plane takes first flight on 100
Why the U s. Navy wants our green jet fuel What'synthetic life'could mean for the energy industry The Algaeus algae-fueled Prius hits the road Just look at that diversity!
Algae can impact our environment, consumer electronics, cars, military--you name it. But the debate really comes down to this:
like genetically modified (GM) food--such as Roundup Ready soybeans--should we be concerned that scientists are tinkering with Mother Nature?
New york city deserves better produce than the road weary lettuces and tomatoes that are trucked in thousands of miles,
She rolls her eyes every time the edible insects are mentioned. Shes somewhat frustrated with how little Australians know about their native foods.
aquaponics is gaining modern traction in places where food transport and water are costly. Here in the middle of Berlin, the single container farm functions as a prototype for Christian Echternacht and Nicolas Leschke, founders of the social business Efficient City Farming (ECF.
In the U s.,transport costs are often the biggest unnecessary overhead on food prices--but here in Berlin,
where it's not uncommon to see unused parking lots with grass growing through cracks and boarded up windows.
So MOS's solution was to create pedestrian-friendly areas not too far from the train stations that connect these suburbs to Manhattan.
Cicero has all the signs of a post-industrial area, such as railroad tracks overgrown with weeds. Studio Gang designed a new concept for home sales:
but were hopeful shell be ready to open by the time shes done with this trip. How do you measure the increase in peace,
notify forest managers of the tree's whereabouts in its travels from tree to log to mill.
Gary Dodge, director of science and certification at the nonprofit Forest Stewardship Council, which has led a global push for lumber certification.
said Dodge. The scheme seems a bit labor intensive and expensive, but verifying the origins of wood could help sellers fetch higher prices at the market for lumber.
Changing elephant poo to green paperjaipur/DELHI--The elephant ride up the stone pathway of the medieval Amber fort outside Jaipur is designed to make tourists feel like Rajput warriors returning from battle-or something on those fantastical lines.
 The poo source Thrice a month, the two brothers set out on a motorbike to collect 1000kgs of dung from the elephant quarters behind the Amber fort.
Here Shekhawat also wants to set up a eco-camp for tourists to observe how the dung paper is made.
These innovative things really transformed how information travels around the world, Chu said, adding  optical fibers and wireless communication as examples.
TRANSPORTATION The shift from self-and animal-powered transportation to the steam engine was also transformative.
But it didn't. The Lincoln administration's funding of a transcontinental railroad--$16, 000 in bond subsidies to rail companies for each mile,
Developments in the rail industry furthered along more in the shipping and aviation industries, which in turn impacted other markets,
Trains and planes and ships revolutionized the food market, he said. It really transformed the way people move
Then came the automobile. While taking pains to note that it was  Gottlieb Daimler who invented the automobile and internal combustion engine, not Henry ford,
Chu said that it was Ford's assembly line that took the car to the mass market.
Productivity per worker went up enormously, he said. ENERGY Chu said he saw similarities to Ford's assembly line
when he visited a Suntech solar plant in China. With four stories of automated production lines and the record for polycrystalline silicon efficiency, the company was executing on the mantra,
Clean energy technologies can positively impact the environment the same way that automobiles did. Not that cars don't produce smog,
of course--but the major environmental pollution problem at the turn of the century was the millions of pounds of manure in city streets produced by horses used for transport.
At the time, gasoline-powered vehicles provided clean streets, Chu said. Now we have another environmental problem,
he said of pollution and greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels. It may not be quite as visible or an assault on our senses as horse manure
does America want to merely invent new technologies like Gottlieb Daimler, or manufacture it to great success like Henry ford, too?
'After inventing aviation, the U s. was able to recover to lead the aviation industry once again,
Chu said. The same ought to happen in energy. We can become us again, he said.
If you put a lot of it in a car, you need to retrofit your vehicle to handle it.
One dirty little secret? The EPA waiver. Gasoline has a special vapor pressure specification for volatility for fumes.
and go to popular private equity center Sand Hill Road. There are a lot of incentives out there. Once you're successful there are incentives,
produce was consumed locally before advances in refrigeration and transportation transformed agriculture into a global business.
We look at food creation in the same way as you look at making subway stops, said Lynn.
and crop dryers and, of course, transportation. This means it needs more in the way of resources than the earth can replenish.
Butanol is drop in fuel molecule that can be used in existing vehicles and fuel distribution infrastructure,
whilst significant, is limited by compatibility of vehicles and infrastructure. Butamax, a 50/50 joint venture between the aforementioned corporate giants
the 1, 361-foot Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago; and his masterstroke, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
or driving an electric car laminated wood costs more than steel and concrete. However, it allows for saving during the construction process.
That s more than the airline industry generates. With 2 billion more people expected to inhabit cities where tall buildings are jammed together for more housing in the next 20 years,
That s the same amount of gas given off by 118 cars in just a single year of driving.'
In 1875, the forest around Walker Lake north of Flagstaff, Ariz. was open with abundant grass cover.
one of the two logging companies involved in the pilot test. With the closest mill 180 miles away, it's too costly to do much with the harvested timber except sell it as firewood in grocery stores,
Walker Lake photos, 1875, by John Hillers, 2003, by Neil Weintraub; Timberguide screenshot, TNC
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That would cut out both long haul transport and local deliveries. Plantlab has made laudable strides toward piling the crops high.
cooling, use of company vehicles and a huge reduction in employee air travel. HP's update about its energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions goals sees it setting new goals for its consumption reduction goals,
Moreover, in the past year, the Disney Cruise Line has improved the water efficiency in its laundry operations by more than 20 percent by installing new technology
Aerovironment Media Relations That's the word from the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI),
which just published a new study that predicts the drone aircraft industry may potentially create more than 70,000 new American jobs in the first three years following the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into U s. skies.
at George washington University and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and author of the AUVSI report. Jenkins observes that drones can be readily mass-produced
Ethanol is projected to rise to 20 percent of the overall transportation fuel supply. Drop in fuels and non-food feedstocks are needed.
Drivers: energy security, rural community growth, fewer greenhouse gas emissions, food constraints, green jobs. Binetti outlined the advantages of cellulosic ethanol:
à  Retail gas stations can be taken into and out of butanol service without problem. It's much easier to distribute
which has led to a complex network of farming, storage, transportation, processing, manufacturing, and marketing capabilities that favor sales of highly processed food products for maximal industry profit.
INTTRA, an e-commerce platform for the ocean freight industry, recently put together some estimates of how much paper gets saved as a result of e-commerce.
The main driver for the switch from manual, paper-based processes is cost-savings and efficiency,
For example, one industry that has taken the lead in reducing paper consumption is the airline industry.
E-tickets have replaced quickly paper tickets for many airlines, including Delta and United. The concert industry has started also to use e-tickets,
INTTRA says that ocean freight providers alone have saved potentially 25,000 trees annually as a result of using its e-commerce network.
How many automobile trips and additional office space is no longer necessary due to telecommuting and remote work?
Other vendors have been jumping on the green bandwagon, and many across the industry are pressing data center operators
but in the future you may see it on your TV or in your car. Click here to see Bayer s TED Talk last summer.
But if this material gets put in your garden or on the side of the road, it starts breaking down like a seed husk within three months to a year.
Chief scientist and cofounder Gavin Mcintyre just won a half a million dollar proposal to adopt this same platform for automobile interior trim parts and cushions.
Enterprise Rent-a-car removed airbags from fleet cars, sold them, didn't inform customersenterprise Rent-a-car, the nation's largest private buyer of new cars and seller of used ones, is in hot water today after the company chose to remove a standard safety feature--side-curtain airbags--from thousands of Chevrolet Impala fleet vehicles
and then sold them on the open market without disclosing the alteration. After the company rented out 66,000 of the 2006 to 2008 models,
Enterprise and other dealers offered them for sale on the open market without disclosing that the standard safety feature had been removed,
Further, the company said it will offer to buy back the cars, regardless of condition, at $750 above Kelley Blue book value.
While the Impalas aren't the only vehicles in which Enterprise removed side airbags--about 5,
000 Chevrolet Cobalt and Buick Lacrosse models were also subject to the factory modification--they were the only vehicles mislabeled.
the rental car business has been criticized for its bureaucratic red tape, complex insurance policies and high fees. Still, I wonder
said Lincoln Saunders, director of the Garden on the go program, which hit the street in early May in Marion County near Indianapolis.
But if I were a restaurant, hotel, school or hospital in D c, . I could just pick up the phone and call Envirelation,
including Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, Sodexo, University of Maryland and Alexandria City Public schools. Walker Lunn founded Envirelation in an effort to help the hospitality industry reduce its carbon footprint
a project he started while at Cornell University s School of Hotel Administration. I spoke with Lunn last month.
You started Envirelation in 2006, but it evolved out of a project at Cornell? Yes, while I was an undergraduate
When I was graduating there were more opportunities at hotels and restaurants. I realized I could go into a hotel
and try to get the hotel to be green from the inside. But I knew the products
and services weren t there to do it, so I decided to do start this business. What are you finding with your clients in terms of composting being something consumers are aware of
In most cases it's behind the scenes, especially at hotels. At a Hyatt, for example, their policy is to do as much of it behind the scenes as possible.
Do you think guests at high-end hotels aren t quite ready to see a composting operation?
At full-service hotels, the guest isn't required to throw a lot out to begin with. When they dine,
For some of the hotels, they ll pursue a composting or recycling program as part of a certification program,
For a hotel, it s a little different because they also have things coming from places that are not their restaurant;
You can expect a large conference hotel to compost a ton of food waste a day, and a large restaurant can compost about 1, 000 to 1, 500 pounds a day.
& Environmental Research center at the University of North dakota once worked on technology to convert waste from a space station and future Martian bases into heat and power.
to its journey through distribution warehouses, to its ultimate retail destination in grocery stores. From a compliance standpoint, that is mandated.
The RFS requires transportation fuels to contain a minimum complement of renewables. That includes ethanol
Believe it or not, Icelandic geothermal to power European cars Fuel efficient cars: What a waste Meanwhile up in the sky,
Sydney to London on the Plastic Fantastic powered flight Move over graphene: Bamboo is the next wonder material Friends of Earth rain on Lufthansa biofuels parade Biofuels fly mainstream:
Lufthansa passenger flights taking off Airbus and Europe map jet biofuel goal Will the real biofuel Lindbergh please stand up?
Honeywell: The Lindbergh of aviation biofuels
Food of the future: can'Frankenfish'survive politics? Sometime this summer or soon after, the federal Food and Drug Administration may finally approve the first-ever genetically modified animal for human consumption--a fast-growing Atlantic salmon that has taken 17 years to reach the threshold of American consensus. The man to thank
--or blame, depending on how you feel about these things--is a former Soviet biologist who is bankrolling the endeavor with an eye on becoming a U s. salmon farmer.
says Alison Van Eenennaam, professor of animal science at the University of California, Davis. The question is:
Van Eenennaam and other scientists, as well as biotech executives and shareholders, worry that if the United states can't approve a gene-altered animal for consumption,
One of the most promising is a program in Van Eenennaam's department. It is aimed at genetically altering goats
Van Eenennaam says. China is already working on a growth hormone for farmed fish. Creating the Frankenfish The Aquadvantage salmon is a voracious over-eater
that trips this gorge-and-grow gene. It matures twice as fast as Atlantic salmon, can grow year round,
Animal scientist Van Eenennaam says the market indeed is the best predictor of what the public wants
In February 2009, Elmore's nonprofit group, Elemental Impact, convinced Atlanta officials and its biggest food-service outfits to launch the nation's first-ever Zero Waste Zone around its downtown hotels
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