Echoing Green has a fellowship program that gives out up to $100,000 in seed money for a new organization that will make the world a better place.
This is a great idea for people have some fantastic ideas that al they need is some capital in order to start their project. There are tons of great things that you can start doing, and it never hurts to apply to these things. Echoing Green even has a place to read about what some people have done to make the world better.
Aussies are looking to the sky as a solution for their predicted energy shortfall. Even though the Australian government denies that global warming is happening, they have given A$420 million towards the solar power plant. The demand for the solar power plant is a result of an increase in popularity of air conditioners, solar powered air conditioners make sense though as power generation will be higher when demand is high.
“Treasurer Peter Costello said the new solar concentrator with a capacity of 154 megawatts would be built in Victoria state, and would reach full capacity by 2013.
“The project aims to build the biggest photovoltaic project in the world and this is by using mirrors which concentrate the sun’s rays on a power plant,” Costello said.”
It seems like that neat engine, which is powered by trash, in that car from Back to the Future is almost real! Researchers at UC Davis have found a way to turn leftovers from meals into biogas that can be used to generate electricity or make fuel. That in itself is not revolutionary, what is though, is that they found an effective (cheap) way to do this on a large scale.
The machine will use leftovers from restaurants to make energy, thus making it also a waster-diversion program to boot.
“The Biogas Energy Project is the first large-scale demonstration in the United States of a new technology developed in the past eight years by Ruihong Zhang, a UC Davis professor of biological and agricultural engineering. The technology, called an “anaerobic phased solids digester,” has been licensed from the university and adapted for commercial use by Onsite Power Systems Inc.”
Diesel fuel in the USA will have to contain a lot less sulfur thanks to a new law that just went into effect. This cleaner diesel is being compared to the removal of lead from gasoline in terms of its potential impact on air quality.
“The agency estimates that by 2030, when most old engines will have been replaced, 20,000 premature deaths, tens of thousands of illnesses, and more than 7,000 hospital visits will be prevented every year.
Officials said cleaner diesel fuel will immediately cut soot emissions from any diesel vehicle by 10 percent. But when combined with new engines hitting the road in January, it will enable emission reductions of up to 95 percent. ”
You may have noticed a new name popping up around this site. Agasel has joined the team of volunteers that help spread good news around the world via this very website.
She brings with her a lot of knowledge of how traditional media functions and an interest in making the world a better place. Agasel is based in Vancouver, but looking for a more tropical climate to spend her life in that is conducive to her writing.
Agasel has already told us that we should do less homework and fashionable horseback riding.
You can get to know her personally at her blog.