The EPA waiver. Gasoline has a special vapor pressure specification for volatility for fumes. They end up back in the atmosphere.
This is not the best environment to be raising money in. It's a hard economic time.
but you have to realize that with the BP-Transocean oil spill we just poisoned half the food chain down there in the Gulf of mexico.
Protecting people & the environment. Growing in developing markets. The Applied Biosciences division, which counts $1 billion in revenue,
Here we are in a water-stressed environment and getting rid of our most precious resource.
because it meets the needs of global climate change, but it taints our water supply. Ideally, you take the wastewater stream,
But there's also the environmental concern in putting warmer water back into the ocean--the long-term fate of the ecology of the ocean.
It's kind of like how wind was in the last decade. Wind technology is green and renewable,
but a lot more expensive than a coal power plant. Early on, it needed incentives to get started. Similarly
Now, the U s. Environmental protection agency is turning up a similar labeling effort for its Watersense program.
The EPA figures that residential outdoor watering uses up to 7 billion gallons of water on a daily basis. Most people tend to adjust the settings for these devices once per year
The EPA figures that the new technologies could help save up to 110 billion gallons of wasted water annually,
the EPA believes that it has helped consumers save up to 125 billion gallons of water and more than $2 billion in water and energy bills.
and sky, meaning that the classic retrofuturistic dream of a dual-mode flying car is well within grasp.
PG&E first utility to embrace new gas leak detection technology From predicting weather to tracking greenhouse emissions
Can we innovate our way out of climate and geologic problems? As the American writer Stewart Brand wrote in his 1969 Whole Earth Catalogue:
Smartplanet turned to David Biello who has been writing about the environment and energy for nearly 15 years, most recently for Scientific American.
So in addition to the climate change we have raised greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere by about 100 parts per million (ppm)
which is much more significant than the rise during past climate changes. SP: Beyond climate change, how have affected we humans the Earth to such a degree that we warrant our own geologic era?
DB: We also do a lot of things that are geologic in scope. We move more earth and stone than all the world rivers.
The good news is that we â â¢ve been dealing with sea level rise and weird weather for most of human history.
The majority of people driving climate change those are the rich will adapt fine, no problem.
The real problem is the 2 billion people who are desperately poor and vulnerable to climate disruption.
This is where we would actively manage planetary scale systems, particularly the climate. SP: Such as? DB:
Where we mimic the cooling effect of a massive volcanic eruption by putting a lot of sulfur dioxide particles into the atmosphere to block sunlight.
as the eruption of Mount Pinatubo 20 years ago illustrated. It did cool the planet for a while.
or silver it might have an impact on the global climate. SP: Really? DB: Yes, there has been research modeling on that.
Not only does this make economic sense this makes climate sense. No one wants to lose their natural gas, it a product.
when we talk about climate change. We are not saving the planet, we are saving ourselves.
coupled with concern over the environment in developed nations, will signal the end of the oil era.
vibrations in the surrounding environment derived from the piezoelectric phenomenon could provide power for future nanoscale devices.
Read Bushnell op-ed for THE FUTURIST. 3. Ocean-current power. Tidal-current turbines and tidal-stream turbines tapping the power of sea systems like the Gulf stream could provide energy for power-hungry states such as Florida.
Energy use in Florida will go up nearly 30%in the next decade as a result of growth. Researchers from Florida Atlantic University have received a $5 million grant to see how the Gulf stream,
which flows at 1, 000 times the rate of the Mississippi river, might be tapped for power,
according to the United nations Environment Program. Finding fresh water in Africa is often a huge task, requiring people (mostly women
The device uses wireless sensors to constantly monitor patients and check environmental factors in the patients home
and crops could halve food price inflationresource conservation technologies in agriculture could potentially halve the staggering increases in food prices in the face of climate change,
director of environment and production and project leader for IFPRI's"How to Achieve Food security in a World of Growing Scarcity"program."
IFPRI researchers have found that drought tolerance technologies for rain-fed agriculture would increase maize output by 27 percent,
Climate change could send prices soaring Under climate change scenarios up to 2050, maize prices could shoot up 90 percent, rice by 65 percent and wheat by 70 percent,
said Ephraim Nkonya, a senior research fellow in the environment and production technology division of IFPRI.
IFPRI researchers found areas with highly dense roads also had a lower rate of land degradation and deforestation."
and in such areas, the roads were not affecting deforestation as we would expect.""Degradation of forests
and land contributes to about one-fifth of global annual greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
That may sound like blue-sky futurism, but evidence shows that the vision is beginning to be realized on the ground, in recent investments, products and services, coming from large industrial and technology corporations and some ambitious start-ups.
and selected concepts they felt promoted the most efficient and welcoming environments and met space utilization trends of the future.
and there are ample opportunities for diverse work environments and oethird-places, such as:¢¢Lounge work areas,
and institutions encourage employees to supplement their office space with work locations not paid for by the company-home offices, neighborhood coffee shops and communal spaces, such as parks and museums in the public domain of the city.
and¢A nexus for the neighborhood with activated retail and green space. Pickard Chilton The office building of the future envisioned by Pickard Chilton will embody three distinct principles centered around human qualities, business objectives and sustainability.
engineered crops, pest control, fertilizers, etc. â environmental protection and remediation: restoration, monitoring, detection, etc. â consumer products:
Impacts on the wider environment will tend to be treated as an externality. Corresponding impacts on price and other economic changes for smaller producers (e g. smallholder farmers) will affect their decisions about land conversion and management
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