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Over at Inhabitat, there are two posts on using wind created by traffic on highways to generate electricity. A student proposes horizontally placed wind generators over highways, much like road signs are placed now (pictured).
A proposal coming from New Jersey has the generators built into the highway that powers a light rail system. Awesome!
The [...]

Modbury is a very small town in England that is quiet and quaint, until today. At 8am today Modbury became the first plastic bag free town in Europe. This is great news which comes after San Francisco gave up plastic bags last month.
Modbury may spark a Europe-wide rejection of the dreaded plastic bag.
Spurred by environmental [...]

After recently banning old light bulbs, the province of Ontario has permitted a Californian company permission to build a rather large solar power facility.
The Ontario government has approved a California company’s plan to build North America’s largest photovoltaic solar farm, the provincial energy ministry announced Thursday.
OptiSolar Farms Canada Inc. of Arthur, Ont. — a subsidiary [...]

Yesterday some work was being done on the piping where I live and I couldn’t work from home like I normally do because of the stench. Good news may come from this because that stink, combined with a few other materials, may end up in future buildings.
Imagine if you could turn old rubbish into new [...]

The fight against cancer has found some support from something that we stomp over: dirt. I love ‘discoveries’ like this because I hope it’ll make people aware of how important biodiversity is.
The bark of certain yew trees can yield a medicine that fights cancer. Now scientists find the dirt that yew trees grow in can [...]

Skyscrapers are bombarded with solar rays and all they did before was heat the building, now an entire skyscraper is being covered in solar panels! No more wasting of that precious light.
Buy 10 million dollars of solar panels and cover the building with them! They’re just as pretty as any facade, and produce hundreds [...]