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Diesel Tells You How Many Days Are Left In Your Life

January 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Network Science

Diesel Tells You How Many Days Are Left In Your Life
Joe Berkowitz, fastcocreate.com

The brand expands on its “Time to Be Brave” philosophy by calculating roughly how much time each of its fans has in which to be brave.If you knew the extent of your projected longevity, it would probably change the way you lived your life. In the…

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Audi Will Bring Diesel-Powered A4 Sedan to the United States (dailytech.com)
Audi Will Bring Diesel-Powered A4 Sedan to the United States (elonmusktesla.wordpress.com)

A New Test To Find Out If Your Water Has Been Fracked

January 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Systems Science

A New Test To Find Out If Your Water Has Been Fracked
BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com

There is a lot of talk about the dangers of fracking, but few hard facts. BaseTrace’s new technology—using DNA—will let you test to see if the natural gas extraction process has contaminated your water.

Depending on whether you’ve just watche…

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Fracking ‘unlikely to give UK cheap gas’, report says. (independent.co.uk)
Fracking Sites Are Polluting Our Groundwater (neboman7.wordpress.com)
Facts on Fracking: Three Things You Need to Know (theenergycollective.com)
Sign California! Support Fracking Moratorium AB 1301 Petition. 350.org Bay Area (friendnature.wordpress.com)

UC Berkeley LEED bioscience building

December 27, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

UC Berkeley’s LEED Gold-Designed Energy Bioscience Building Leads by Example
Andrew Goodwin, inhabitat.com

UC Berkeley’s new Energy Bioscience Building is home to the Energy Biosciences Institute, a public-private partnership that develops solutions to global energy challenges. The five-story, $133 million biofuels research facility was designed by…

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UC Berkeley selected to build NASA’s next space weather satellite (terradaily.com)
Launch of antimalarial drug a triumph for UC Berkeley, synthetic biology (newscenter.berkeley.edu)

Fenix ReadySet: Energy storage, redesigned

November 26, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Fenix ReadySet | Popular Science
popsci.com

Energy storage, redesigned.

The ReadySet portable base station can draw and store energy from a number of sources: A 15-watt solar panel charges its battery in seven hours. Next year, Fenix will release a kinetic generator, which can hel…

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Intelligent plug-and-play energy system charges by sun, wind, hydro, or bicycle (treehugger.com)
Bill Gates Provides Boost To Renewable Energy Storage Company Aquion Energy (cleantechnica.com)
Storing Renewable Energy: Key To An All-Renewables Future (earthtechling.com)
Hss For Sale Fenix RC10 Rechargeable Flashlight For Sale Online Blades Harder Than They Drill Better Balanced End (tarpcosttro2.wordpress.com)
Energy Storage Study Predicts Boom Through 2022 (theenergycollective.com)
Energy Storage Breakthrough: Large And Powerful Redox Flow Battery Developed (cleantechnica.com)
Smart Grid Technology The energy storage breakthrough we’ve been waiting for? (hazima.wordpress.com)

Boston natural gas leaks

November 22, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Boston has a few thousand gas leaks it shouldn’t worry about
pbgrist, grist.org

Just FYI, Bostononianites, there’s a natural gas leak under your city. Not a big deal. It’s a little one. Little small little natural gas leak.

And a tiny bit of additional bad news — there are also over 3,300 other such leaks.

Fro…

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Evacuations under way after gas leak (wcvb.com)

Why energy management is the key to growth

November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Why Better Energy Management is the Key to Peak Productivity
Gregory Ciotti, lifehacker.com

We live in a culture that seems obsessed with being productive. While increasing our output and doing more with our time is certainly an admirable goal, according to Tony Schwartz, author of Be Excellent at Anything, that misguid…

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The Four Elements Of Physical Energy And How To Master Them (lifehacker.com.au)
Tony Schwartz: What Women Know About Leadership That Men Don’t (huffingtonpost.com)
Working less can increase productivity (pri.org)
Habits and Getting Things Done (leanreflections.com)

The world’s first solar powered nation

November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Pacific Tokelau Island Chain Becomes World’s First Solar-Powered Nation | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Jill Fehrenbacher 5 Tips to Make Your Home Safe, Green & Healthy from Zem Joaquin TweetShare on TumblrEmail You’ve all heard the tired mantras about changing your lightbulbs and recycling at home in order to save the planet – are you yawning yet? Many consumers think that going green is a gesture of self-sacrifice that often comes at great expense and inconvenience – but nothing could be further from the […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

The remote Pacific Island territory of Tokelau has officially become the world’s first solar-powered nation! The population of 1,411 people decided to end their reliance on around 2,000 barrels of diesel each year, and instead install…

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: stair-climbing vacuum cleaner, carbon dioxide diapers and a real 3D-printed face (engadget.com)
Stilts: Inhabitat Monkeys Around in Sustainable Kenyan Treehouses (inhabitat.com)
Off-Grid and Solar-Powered Isolée Retreat in Amsterdam Opens Like a Cupboard (inhabitat.com)
Why oil-rich countries are investing in solar (smartplanet.com)
Inhabitat’s Week in Green: algae-powered building, 3D-printing vending machine and the Toyota i-Road concept (engadget.com)

Nokero Sunray solar charger saved my life

November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

How The Nokero SunRay Pro Power Solar Charger Saved My Skin & My Sanity During Hurricane Sandy
Jill Fehrenbacher, inhabitat.com

When Hurricane Sandy hit last week, and the power in my lower Manhattan apartment went out, my first thought, as I dug around for candles and LED lamps was “Well this will be a fun little off-grid adventure!” I naively harbored some…

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Is This Energy Source a Key to National Security? (dailyfinance.com)
The Solar Elevator Has Arrived (solarfeeds.com)
First Solar Buys 150 MW California Solar Power Plant (To Be Done 2014) (cleantechnica.com)
Is This Energy Source a Key to National Security? (fool.com)

Design and cleantech: a winning combination

November 1, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Design and cleantech: a winning combination
Posted by Chris Sherwin, guardian.co.uk

In his third article on sustainability and design, Chris Sherwin makes the case for using design to help clean and green technologies succeed

A few years ago, green start-up Intelligent Energy (IE), the proud owners and developers of a world-cla…

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Denmark Tops First-Of-Its-Kind Global Cleantech Innovation Index (chimalaya.org)
Where the money is in cleantech: oil and gas [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
Crowdfunding Coming of Age in Cleantech (cleantechies.com)
Cleantech Accelerator Greenstart Evolves into Venture Company (triplepundit.com)
Creating Safer, Brighter and More Energy Efficient Places with Xeralux LED (eco-business.com)
The state of cleantech venture capital: what lies ahead (gigaom.com)
Westly Group raises $160M cleantech fund (sustainablebusinessoregon.com)
Crowdfunding Coming of Age In Cleantech (renewableenergyworld.com)
Breaking Down The Mystery of Cleantech (earthtechling.com)

Bensonwood Launches Unity Homes Line of Energy-Efficient Prefabs

October 22, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Bensonwood Launches Unity Homes Line of Energy-Efficient Prefabs
Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com

Bensonwood’s Unity Homes features four distinct home styles that are 2 to 4 bedrooms and range in size from 1,113 to 2,452 sq ft. The home styles are called the Tradd (a classic Tall Cape), Xyla (American Bungalow), Värm (Swedish…

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Sunmodo Partners with Method Homes on Modern and Sustainable Paradigm Series Prefab Home Prototype (prweb.com)
Sunmodo Partners with Method Homes on Modern and Sustainable Paradigm Series Prefab Home Prototype (virtual-strategy.com)
Prefab modular story additions: an overview of leading suppliers (qualitysmith.com)
Blu Homes selling prefab houses in Hawaii (sustainablebusinessoregon.com)
Prefab Fishers Island House Steps Up the Modern Modular to Luxury Vacation Living (jetsongreen.com)
Inhabitat Tours Blu Homes’ First Prefab Breezehouse on America’s East Coast (PHOTOS) (inhabitat.com)
Blu Homes Brings Prefab Dwellings To Hawaii (earthtechling.com)
miniHome by Altius Architecture to be Featured at Modernism Week in Palm Springs, CA February 15th-24th, 2013 (virtual-strategy.com)

Germany Sets New Solar Record

October 22, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Germany Sets New Solar Record By Meeting Nearly Half of Country’s Weekend Power Demand | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Diane Pham 5 Tips to Cut Your Electricity Bill With Energy Efficiency Expert David Johnston Cutting back on your energy usage is one of the best ways to bring down your electricity bill. But did you know that making simple changes to not just your wattage consumption but the way your home retains and expels air can dramatically transform the way you experience your spaces and use electricity? Joining us […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

Germany fed a whopping 22 gigawatts of solar power per hour into the national grid last weekend, setting a new record by meeting nearly half of the country’s weekend power demand. After the Fukushima disaster, Japan opted to shut down …

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PlanetSolar Launch 2013 (greenblognetwork.blogspot.com)
Solar power one of the fastest growing segment of Indian power sector (natgrp.org)
Solar America, Solar Energy Labs partner to develop integrated energy system (solar.energy-business-review.com)
Solar power paying for and powering a Chevy Volt (reviews.cnet.com)
ZTE debuts solar-powered phone (reviews.cnet.com)
Who pays for the greening of Germany? (bbc.co.uk)
The price of solar power (resilience.org)
Germany has installed five times as much solar power capacity as the U.S. (nanowerk.com)
Sullivan Solar Power Partners with aleo solar to Provide the Industry’s First 2.99% Financing (virtual-strategy.com)
Germany has five times as much solar power as the U.S. – despite Alaska levels of sun (washingtonpost.com)

It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit

October 1, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit
BY MICHAEL J. COREN, fastcoexist.com

An ambitious company is attempting to use thermal cameras attached to cars to capture images of how every building in America is wasting energy.

It’s the Google Maps for home efficiency. At the rate of two to three million buildings per mont…

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IDB supports energy efficiency program for Bahamian hotels (antiguaobserver.com)
Thousands Of Ohio Businesses To Reap Free Energy Audits (earthtechling.com)
Conducting a Home Energy Audit (sprayfoamdirect.com)
One Clean Planet Offers New Innovative All Natural, Healthy Carpeting that’s Unlike Any Other Product in North America (prweb.com)
Conducting a Home Energy Audit – Insulation (sprayfoamdirect.com)
Online Tool Helps Your Home Save Energy (earthtechling.com)
Two Wonderful Tools Integrating Twitter in Google Maps (teacherlingo.com)
Give your house an energy audit with your smartphone (smartplanet.com)
New Technology Makes Home Heat Loss Visible (wbur.org)

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