News has surfaced again that Apple is planning to release a hydrogen fuel cell battery that could power iPhones, iPods, and iPads for at least a week without recharging. Submissions (below) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office, first reported by Apple Insider in October, describe a lighter and more environmentally friendly battery that could keep [...]
Archive for the ‘Conservation’ Category
Apple Working on New Battery That Could Be Charged Once a Week
December 29th, 2011 
Justin Manger Not Your Average Bus Trip: How “Green” is that Green Bus? Part 2
December 24th, 2011 Heather Perry This is the second in a series by Heather Perry. All posts in the series will be available here. We drove our bus to our first supplying client, the restaurant where Darcy had been working. Consistent with what we would find throughout the rest of our three-month journey, the owner of the restaurant was encouraging [...]
Could “Green Routing” Play a Role in Our Future?
December 23rd, 2011 Chris DeArmond Though it’s alluring to think that electric and hydrogen vehicles may transform the way we travel, it is more likely that small, incremental changes like route optimization will play dominating roles in our future—at least until we run out of oil. Researchers from the University at Buffalo studying “green routing,” which is achieved when all [...]
Recent “Green” Developments in Japan
December 20th, 2011 Justin Manger From Japan for Sustainability come two quick news tidbits of note. First, a group of researchers at Chubu University has been developing superconducting wires that can minimize electricity loss in the transmission process. “In 2010, the group successfully completed the world’s first experiment aimed at sending direct current electricity through a 200-meter-long transmission line using superconductors.” This [...]
International League of Conservation Photographers
December 19th, 2011 Eric Wilson Images hold a powerful sway over people. Whether painting or photography, pictures tend to elicit emotional responses. A picture of an old friend may take you back to a memory of carefree days. In other instances, an image can remind us of the devastation wrought by war, famine, or natural disaster. It is along these [...]
California Valley Solar Ranch Gets Underway
December 15th, 2011 Eric Wilson A number of large solar projects have been dogged by issues of environmental degradation, of all things. Last year, several concentrated solar power installations ran afoul of environmentalists due to the sites chosen. One in particular, the Blythe Solar Power Project, which was the largest installation at the time, was planned on critical habitat for [...]
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Tags: California, Carbon Dioxide, Environment, EPA, Solar Energy, Water 
No Comments »Starbucks Store Made from Recycled Shipping Containers
December 14th, 2011 Chris DeArmond Though it seems like you can get Starbucks coffee just about anywhere, only one store (located in Tukwila, WA) can serve it to you from inside old cargo containers. A little over a week ago, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that construction is underway to build a Starbucks out of four repurposed shipping containers (40′ long, 8′ [...]
Save Money, Not the Planet
December 4th, 2011 Justin Manger How many times, in how many ways, and with how many examples do we need to say it? The focus on any green agenda should not be carbon reductions or global warming or – dare I say it – saving the planet. The planet will be fine. We may not be, but the earth will [...]
