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Hydropower: How Canada-U.S. Partnerships Contribute to America’s Clean Energy Economy

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

By creating symbiotic relationships with other nations, especially our neighbors, the United States can begin using ... more ...

Efficiency, Hydroelectric, Policy

Aqua Electricity: A Rechargeable Boat?

Rick Anderson

We have generators that are attached to the side of either a moving or stationary boat that recharges batteries for the ... more ...

Clean Tech, Efficiency, Engineering, Hydroelectric, Transportation

Chandler-Gilbert Community College: SEE Your World

Chandler-Gilbert Community College

Chandler-Gilbert Community College's SEE Your World initiative focuses on social, environmental, and economic issues and ... more ...

Campus Sustainability, Climate Leadership Awards, Education, Efficiency, Green Building, Renewable Energy, Science, Solar, Water

Microbial Fuel Cell: Renewable Energy from the Forest Floor

Students from Clemson's EPA P3 team have developed a device that will generate power from organic material found on the ... more ...

Biofuels, Colleges and Universities, Energy Storage, Engineering, EPA P3, Science

Jump Around: Taking Advantage of Piezoelectric Energy

Samantha Jones

Can good vibrations power our future? If you don't know what piezoelectric energy is, jump around--you just created it. ... more ...

Activism, Electric Cars, Green Communities, Green Living, GreenGov, Renewable Energy, Science, Transportation

Polymers for Stronger, More Efficient Solar Cells

National Science Foundation

Science at work! NSF-funded engineers have found a way to make solar cells with plastics in a cheaper, more ... more ...

Clean Tech, Engineering, Science, Solar

Turbines Inspired by Nature

Inspired by nature, these turbines follow the logarithmic spiral pattern found everywhere in the universe from ... more ...

Biomimicry, Efficiency, Engineering, Green Communities, Green Living, Hydroelectric, Oceans, Renewable Energy, Water, Wind

Living Light: Sustainable Solar Mass Appeal

Living Light's solar house balances technology and modern design features with regional history and landscape to be of ... more ...

Architecture, Education, Green Building, Green Communities, Green Living, Solar Decathlon

System 1: Smart Greywater Recycling System

Francesco Dorigo

System 1 is a self-contained fully functional greywater collection, processing and disbursement system. The system runs ... more ...

Clean Tech, Green Building, Green Communities, Green Living, Water

Can Fiber Optics Cables be Used to Transport Solar Light and Heat?

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Can we use fiber optic cables to transport or transmit solar light and heat over long distances from hot deserts to cold ... more ...

Biomimicry, Education, Engineering, Renewable Energy, Solar, Uncategorized

Team Empowerhouse Creates A New Vision for Affordable, Sustainable Housing

Empowerhouse Collaborative

Can solar energy and other sustainable technologies create a new vision for affordable housing? That is the goal of the ... more ...

Activism, Architecture, Clean Tech, Climate Change, Efficiency, Green Building, Green Communities, Green Living, GreenGov, Renewable Energy, Solar, Solar Decathlon

An Innovative Heating Solution: Fiber Optics

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Can solar heat be transmitted through special fiber optics to distant places where it is cold? I know that fiber optics ... more ...

Activism, Adaptation, Architecture, Ask an Expert, Business, Economics, Efficiency, Engineering, Featured Community Blog, Geothermal, Policy, Renewable Energy, Science, Solar

Amplifying the Sun With Aluminum Reflectors

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I boosted battery capacity in my solar porch lights by adding an aluminum reflectors to double sunlight on the PV chip ... more ...

Activism, Adaptation, Architecture, Business, Clean Tech, Education, Efficiency, Science, Solar

Plasma-Based Hydrogen Generation From Sea Water

Michael Thomas

Advanced Plasma Industries (API) is an innovative technology research & development company based in Maryland, ... more ...

Clean Tech, Efficiency, Engineering, Natural Gas, Oceans, Renewable Energy, Science, Water

Solving the Nation’s Dependency on Foreign Oil and Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Landfills

Agilyx is the first in the world to economically convert difficult-to-recycle waste plastics into crude oil through a ... more ...

Clean Tech, Engineering, Green Building, Renewable Energy, Science

Neighborhood Cooperatives to Alleviate Energy Dependence

Kasey Carlson

I would like to see development in energy cooperatives. Neighbors and neighborhoods have the potential to share the ... more ...

Activism, Architecture, Clean Tech, Climate Change, Efficiency, Geothermal, Green Building, Green Communities, Green Living, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind

Branching Out For City Environments

Christine Martin

We need to plant trees to replace the landscape decimated by urban and city sprawl. Planting green trees and plants ... more ...

Activism, Adaptation, Agriculture, Green Building, Green Communities

Piping Hot: Wood Stove Heating Technology

Andrew Murray

What makes E.S.F.B.A (Efficient Solid Fuel Burning Appliance) so much better? Mostly it is the baffles. E.S.F.B.A has a ... more ...

Biofuels, Clean Tech, Efficiency, Renewable Energy

That’s Levitation, Home’s

The scientific research project, Project Home 2011, which was an investor funded research project from 1979 to January ... more ...

Business, Clean Tech, Engineering, Green Building, Renewable Energy, Science, Transportation

Powering Up with Smart Grids – Green Revolution

National Science Foundation

How we get our energy is as important as how we make it. In this episode of Green Revolution, hear how scientists and ... more ...

Clean Tech, Science

Microbes! – Green Revolution

National Science Foundation

Can bugs save the planet? Join host Lisa Van Pay, PhD (aka a scientist) as she explores exciting alternative energy ... more ...

Biomimicry, Clean Tech, Science

Solar mirror space heater

Non Encrypted

Most of us are so focused toward converting sunlight into electricity that we overlook the biggest residential energy ... more ...

Architecture, Clean Tech, Economics, Education, Efficiency, Engineering, Green Living, Renewable Energy, Solar

Ole Miss Energy Grids Get Smart

Sarah Cummings

SmartSynch SmartMeters wireless monitor energy usage data, allowing Ole Miss to track its energy usage in real-time and ... more ...

Adaptation, Business, Campus Sustainability, Clean Tech, Education, Efficiency, Engineering, Green Building, Green Communities, Science

Turbine Power at Piston Prices-RT an integrated combined Cycle engine with up to 75% efficiency for power generation, energy storage (wind/solar) & cogeneration.

Thorsten U. Reinhardt

“Environmentally friendly Solutions need to become more affordable compared to polluting ones”. In plain ... more ...

Clean Tech, Efficiency, Electric Cars, Engineering, Transportation

Measuring the Environmental Impact of Climate Change

Measuring Redwood Giants: Forest ecologist Steve Sillett is leading a team of scientists as they climb and measure every ... more ...

Adaptation, Science

Reduce Energy, Live Passively

Charlie Rybak

If we want to create a better energy future for ourselves, we need to start being smarter about the way we do things so ... more ...

Architecture, Efficiency, Green Building, Green Living

The Sustainable Solar Sanitation Project

The Sustainable Solar Sanitation Project is a collaboration of the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Emory University ... more ...

Agriculture, Efficiency, Engineering, Green Communities, Solar, Water

A Revolutionary Engine

Arjun is an undergraduate student of Mechanical Engineering at the Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Anna ... more ...

Agriculture, April 2011 PBS Special, Transportation

Middlebury Solar Decathlon: Self-Reliance

Middlebury Solar Decathlon 2011

The Department of Energy hosts a Solar Decathlon every two years. Just 20 universities from around the world are ... more ...

Architecture, Clean Tech, Efficiency, Engineering, Green Building, Green Living, Science, Solar, Solar Decathlon

Encourage Innovation on Saltwater-Consuming Algae Biofuels

The University of Texas at Austin

Meet biology experts David Nobles and Malcolm Brown, the talented research team that has developed a possible answer to ... more ...

Agriculture, Algae, Biofuels, Business, Clean Tech, Science

Oxford University Transit System Promotes Bus Usage

Erin Parsons and Lexi Combs

The bus system is making riding easier by installing solar powered GPS systems that inform riders of where their buses ... more ...

Green Communities, Policy, Public Transportation, Transportation

Develop Sustainable Electricity from Methane in Urban Solid Waste

John Buarotti

"Real Natural Gas" takes your waste water (read - toilets) and turns it into energy. more ...

Biofuels, Engineering, Science

Habitat for Humanity building passive homes as affordable housing

Charlie Rybak

What if we could save more energy and lower the costs of home ownership, simply by constructing them in a smarter way? ... more ...

Architecture, Business, Education, Efficiency, Green Building, Green Communities, Green Living