Learn how to have a Smaller Impact on the Environment

Collectively, small lifestyle changes can make a huge impact on the environment–and your life. Looking for happiness and health? What’s good for the environment is also, it turns out, great for you. Visit this website to learn about the No Impact experiment and to get tips on how you can have less impact on the environment.

Visit noimpactproject.org.

Architect William McDonough at TED 2005

This is a great talk by William McDonough at TED in 2005. He believes that green design can prevent environmental disaster -- while also driving economic growth. He champions “cradle to cradle” design that considers the full life cycle of a product, from its creation with sustainable materials to a recycled afterlife. In 2002 he co-wrote Cradle to Cradle. (The book itself is printed on recyclable plastic.)

View the talk he gave at TED

Biomimicry For Green Design (A How-To)

This is a great article by Jeremy Faludi explaining how to use biomimicry for design. He describes the biomimetic approach and gives a comprehensive list of priciples. He lists reference material that are must-reads.

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Capturing Carbon with Synthetic Trees

Watch the segment on Nova Science NOW that interviews Geophysicist Klaus Lackner about his synthetic tree made to take carbon out of the atmosphere which was inspired by his daughter's science project.

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Satellite survey reveals dramatic Arctic sea-ice thinning

Scientists have evaluated for the first time how much the thickness and volume of Arctic sea ice, not just the ice's surface area, have shrunk since 2004 across the Arctic Ocean basin.

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Green Living and Green Technology Podcaster

While reading the San Jose Mercury News I came across an article written by Mike Cassidy about a local podcaster. Her name is Alison van Diggelen and she has interviewed a variety of people on the subject of green living and green technology. Her guests have included Silicon Valley tech execs, Maureen Dowd, Charlie Rose, Jack Welsh, and Martin Sheen.

Visit her website to hear these podcasts at www.freshdialogues.com.

Can the Power Grid Handle the Influx of Renewable Energy Sources?

With solar and wind turbines coming online the existing power grid is too old and inadequate to manage it. Read the article that discusses the problems that need to be solved that will move us into clean energy production and management.

Read the article: Lifeline for Renewable Power by David Talbot