Honda FCX Wins Green Award

Honda’s FCX, a hydrogen-fuled fuel-cell car, has won the World Green Car award. The panel said it’s “an utterly real, hydrogen-fueled luxury sedan that provides the amenities people expect in a premium car with (more than 280 miles of) range, fuel consumption of about 72 mpg equivalent and zero tailpipe emissions.” Full Story : Treehugger.com….

World’s Largest Solar Tower Now Powers 10,000 Homes

The world’s largest solar power tower just began operating outside Seville, Spain. PS20 consists of a solar field made up of 1,255 mirrored heliostats designed by Abengoa Solar. Each heliostat, with a surface area of 1,291 square feet, reflects the solar radiation it receives onto the receiver, located on the top of a 531 feet-high tower , producing steam which is converted into electricity generation by a turbine. Full Story : TreeHugger.com……

Linux the Greenest Operating System?

Linux requires less processor power and less advanced hardware than Windows or Mac OS X, you can use hardware much longer with Linux. That means less landfill problems, and less production of new equipment overall. According to a new study Windows users have to upgrade their computers twice as frequently as Linux users. Full Story : Greencomputing…..

98% of Green Labeled Products are Actually Greenwashed

According to TerraChoice Environmental Marketing, only 2% of products labeling themselves as green are completely legit in their claims. The remaining 98%, not so much. The remainder commit “greenwashing” sins, that is they mislead consumers about the environmental benefits of a product or the practices of a company, said TerraChoice, which runs the Canadian government’s eco-labeling program. Full Story : Treehugger.com….

German electricity plant runs on corn waste

German scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems have developed an electricity plant that produces its biogas, a form of biofuel, from non-edible plant waste. Full Story : GreenTech……

Namaste Solar Becomes Poster Child for Economic Recovery

Namaste Solar Electric snagged a starring role in the signing of the $787 billion economic stimulus package by President Obama on Tuesday. Namaste Solar designs, supplies, installs and services solar electric systems for homes and businesses throughout Colorado. The stimulus package includes tax credits, grants and loan guarantees for solar, wind, plug-in hybrid cars, advanced batteries and other renewable energy sectors. Full Story : GreenTechMedia…..

@ a glance : Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade

Massive investments in clean energy promise to keep farmers, urban planners, and green-tech entrepreneurs in business for the next decade. This guide to sustainability focused career paths will help solar-charge your work life. Full Story : Fastcompany.com……….

@ a glance : CES2009: Greenpeace Speaks Up About Green Gadgets

Greenpeace had a presence at this year’s CES 2009, and had in hand their report ranking the greenest products of the 15 manufacturers participating in their study. Full Story : TreeHugger……

Want to be Green This Christmas?

1) Switch to LED (light emitting diode) lights : You can drop your energy bill and do not throw away your old incandescent light strands, recycle them.

2) Plant a tree: You can purchase a potted living tree and replant it in your house. Do you know that a single tree can absorb more than one ton of CO2 over its lifetime?

3)Rent a Christmas tree: Find a place where you can rent a Christmas. In some places sellers deliver a potted living tree to you, and then they pick it up and replant.

4) Create or buy recycled ornaments : Handmade Christmas ornaments can be made with pine cones, pieces of cloth, wood carvings, fruit and berries. Avoid purchasing plastic or glass ornaments from your retailer.

Redewin : New Online Ecostore.

Redewin, a new online eco-store that sells unique vintage and reconstructed clothing,launched recently. Redewin says their philosophy is “Re-define your connection with earth by recycling clothing. Re-dew your thinking about wasteful consumption.” All of the items on Redewin are created from used garments—they take button-ups, t-shirts, dresses, doilies, sweaters, jeans, etc, and stitch them together to create innovative, intriguing new fashion blends.

Secret Green Community Saved.

A secret Green community that was only discovered during an aerial survey of a Welsh national park,UK will not be demolished after it was finally approved. The inhabitants secretly built the sustainable village and lived there unnoticed until the aerial survey was carried out in 1998. The village relies on solar power and a wind turbine for electricity, and has compost toilets, reed beds, a workshop and a hay barn.

World’s Smallest Car : Toyota iQ

Toyota unveiled Toyota iQ at the Frankfurt Motor show. Toyota is promoting the iQ as the ultimate refined mode of transportation. Despite its small size Toyota iQ received a 5-star safety rating in Euro NCAP testing. According to Toyota the 1.0-liter gasoline iQ should record 54.1 mpg on the European driving cycle (99g/km of CO2). iQ will go on sale in Japan in October and few months later in Europe. The price is expected to be in the range of $13,000 - $15,000.

Human Remains In Sahara

Remains of a tiny woman and 2 children were found in Sahara desert. These skeletons are 5,000 years old and provided clues to two civilizations who lived there, a thousand years apart, when Sahara region was moist and green. Paul Sereno and colleagues from University of Chicago were searching for the remains of dinosaurs in the African country when they came across these skeletons. This hot desert was moist and green at the time people lived there. The first group of people known as the Kiffian, hunted wild animals and colonized the region between10,000 and 8,000 years ago. The second group, Tenerians, lived here between 7,000 and 4,500 years ago. They were smaller and did hunting, fishing and cattle herding. But now Sahara is a desert occupied with hot blowing wind.

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Green Or Blue Scrubs Over White

Why do health care professionals wear blue or green scrubs rather than any other colours? Although white is the color of cleanliness, in the early 20th century doctors switched their scrub’s colour from white to green. It’s been known that green or blue colours are easier on a surgeon’s eyes and help doctors to see better in the operating room due the opposite of red on the color wheel.

Looking at blue or green can refresh a one’s vision of red things, especially during surgery. If a surgeon looks at something red, he becomes desensitized to it. The red colour signal in the brain actually fades, and this could make the surgery difficult. Looking at something green will make the eyes more sensitive to red. By wearing a green scrub, doctors can also eliminate a green illusion of the blood (“after effect” illusion due to red).

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Solar powered Hindu Temple in California.

Shree Swaminarayan Mandir,currently under construction and, scheduled to open later to this summer will get all its power from Solar. The temple and cultural center is being built in Chino Hills, California. The temple will be entirely powered by a 60 KW solar power system,which is installed by Los Angeles’ GoGreenSolar.
 In addition to the temple and cultural center, the entire 20 acre complex will include classroom, a gym, a dining hall, a snack shop, an exhibition hall, and living quarters. Hinduism is the world’s oldest living religion and is shared by about 800 million people, or approximately one-sixth the world’s population.

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G-8 For Controlling Global Emissions

The Group of Eight leading industrial nations agreed on halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. In the battle against global warming all major economies are called to join to eliminate the potentially dangerous rise in world temperatures. The G-8 countries include the United States, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Britain, Canada and Italy.

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Clean the air as you drive

BMW unveiled a hydrogen-powered 7-series sedan which emits very low amount of Carbon Monoxide, in last month’s AE Congress in Detroit. The engine breaks down and converts carbon monoxide, essentially cleaning the air as it is driven. This green sedan of BMW features a six-liter hydrogen combustion engine. Car’s emissions are so low that they are undetectable by standard emissions tests.