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Coming soon, self-powered devices that don't require batteries
The self-powering cellphone won't require any battery charging because it will convert sound waves produced by the user into the energy it needs to keep running. Tahir Cagin, a professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A and M University has used materials ...
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Asthma inhalers to go 'green' on Dec. 31
Last warning: Asthma inhalers go "green" on Dec. 31, forcing patients still using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch. The medicine inside these rescue inhalers - the albuterol that quickly opens airways during an asthma attack - isn't changing. But the chemicals ...
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Pedaled points of light: Christmas tree uses alternative energy
This tree puts a unique spin on green. The Embassy Festival of Trees, in Fort Wayne, Ind., features a new attraction this year: a tree powered by, possibly, you. The alternative-energy tree won't be sucking up electricity from Indiana Michigan's power grid. Rather, visitors to the Festival of ...
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Enjoy the holidays while treading lightly on the planet
Have you been dreaming of a green Christmas? With a little bit of effort - maybe much less than you thought - you and your family can enjoy the holiday and help save the planet at the same time.
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Toward a New Energy Economy: Part 1 Action in 100 Days
by William S. Becker There is no lack of ideas for what President Obama and the 111th Congress should do to address three of the most pressing issues they will face when they take office in January – global climate change, the energy crisis, and economic transformation. It may be winter in ...
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The Food Issue - An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief - Michael Pollan - NYTimes.com
Comment added by Mickki Langston on 11/22/2008I really enjoyed this article, especially because of the many suggestions Michael Pollen makes about White House policies that could have a drastic, positive effect on both our relationship to food and how we produce, transport and share it. If we could just turn off the TV more often and invest ... -
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Learning to share learning - an exploration of methods to improve and share learning
Comment added by Giorgio Bertini on 11/20/2008More on sharing and social learning at Conversations, Learning and Change . Social Learning and Networks . Web for Change . -
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Political Radar: House Panel Backs Waxman Over Dingell As Energy Chair
Comment added by JDP on 11/19/2008This is a BIG CHANGE and could be a significant DIFFERENCE for the world as well as the US - Kyoto, alternate energy / clean power initiatives and funding, energy independence, real and meaningful auto mileage and emissions standards, etc. -
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What is Wisdom and how is it Learned? - Humberto Maturana and Pille Bunnell
Comment added by Giorgio Bertini on 11/15/2008NOTE: more resources by Humberto Maturana at the Twine Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela
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