With the awarding of billions of dollars from the stimulus bill to various big high speed rail projects across the nation, several smaller studies have been conducted on the feasibility of constructing and running faster train lines. The Rocky Mountain Rail Authority – “a multi-jurisdictional government body comprised of 52 Colorado cities, towns, counties and [...]
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Colorado Front Range Completes Initial High Speed Rail Study
March 31st, 2010 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, Transportation 
Tags: Colorado, Denver, Fort Collins, High Speed Rail, Stimulus Bill, Trains 
No Comments »What a Nickel Will Do: D.C. Uses Millions Fewer Plastic Bags After 5 Cent Tax
March 30th, 2010 Justin Manger At the beginning of the year, any businesses selling food in the District of Columbia were required to start charging five cents for each plastic bag they gave to customers. The preliminary result of that tax on consumer’s behavior has been nothing less than astonishing. According to the Washington Post, “the D.C. Office of Tax and [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Conservation, Green Economy, Justin Manger, Policy Tags: Water No Comments »I Love the Smell of Wood Chips Early in the Morning: Vermont Biomass
March 29th, 2010 Justin Manger This post comes to us thanks to the beauty of the internet. Traditionally unable to listen Vermont Public Radio (VPR) here in Washington, the internet now makes such once far-out ideas commonplace. The link above takes you to several audio clips from VPR. This link has a story about the capital city of Montpelier using wood [...]
What Will Be the Next Big Biofuel Breakthrough?
March 28th, 2010 Eric Wilson The oil economy cannot run on crude from underground reserves indefinitely. However, a majority of the transportation infrastructure is set up for the delivery of oil products and for the cars, trucks, boats, that run on refined oil (gasoline, diesel, kerosene). According to MarketWatch, late last year the Department of Energy approved millions of dollars [...]
Earth Hour at 8:30pm Local Time Tonight!
March 27th, 2010 Justin Manger Earth Hour to commence in 1.5 hours on the U.S. east coast. Turn off your lights from 8:30pm-9:30pmEST. Millions of people will be turning off lights and appliances in a gesture to highlight environmental concerns. This year is the fourth annual Earth Hour, organized by the World Wildlife Fund. As each time zone reaches the [...]
New Nuclear Power Technology from Gates-Toshiba Partnership
March 27th, 2010 Justin Manger A nuclear reactor that runs for 100 years without refueling? A new design called the “travelling-wave reactor” may be one step closer to reality thanks for discussions between the Japanese company Toshiba and a company backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates called TerraPower. A spin-off from Intellectual Ventures, the “invention company” was founded by a [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Green Economy, Japan, Justin Manger Tags: Clean Energy, Nuclear No Comments »Five Friday Facts
March 26th, 2010 Eric Wilson This week’s Five Friday Facts comes from Waste Farmers who were recently featured on 2nd Green Revolution. In 2005 the U.S. sent 25 million tons of food waste to landfills. The Greenhouse Gas impact of composting this waste is the equivalent of removing 7.8 million passenger cars from the road. Every year the average American [...]
Texas, the Grid, and Alternative Energy
March 25th, 2010 Justin Manger We talk a lot about local energy and using the type of power production that is most suitable for the region in which you live. This is especially true for renewable and alternative energy: hydro power in Las Vegas and the Northwest; solar in the southwest; wind in the plains; biomass perhaps in the southeast [...]
500 Posts and Counting!
March 25th, 2010 Justin Manger Today marks another milestone for us here at 2nd Green Revolution. Since making our web debut last January 25th we’ve written 499 posts. Today’s post makes it an even 500. We’d like to thank our audience for their support and readership. Though posting practically every day can be time consuming, we really enjoy researching, writing, [...]
Waste Farmers: Making Money From Other People’s Trash
March 24th, 2010 Eric Wilson Subscribing to the Cradle to Cradle philosophy, Denver based Waste Farmers works with metro area restaurants to decrease the matter they send to the landfill. With a national client list that includes Denver-based Chipotle as well as independent schools in the area, Waste Farmers picks up organic material from clients and composts the waste. According [...]
Posted in Business, Eric Wilson, Green Economy, Recylcing, Sustainability Tags: Colorado, Composting, Cradle to Cradle, Denver, Zero Waste No Comments »
