Sentences with phrase «green earth technologies»

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Now in its fourth round of awards, ARPA - E allocated $ 156 million to 60 projects grouped in five focus areas: Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO), Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies for Energy (REACT), High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS), Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) and Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (Solar ADEPT).

While the curtain - like auroras we see at Earth are green at the bottom and red at the top, Cassini's imaging cameras have shown us similar curtain - like auroras at Saturn that are red at the bottom and purple at the top, said Ulyana Dyudina, an imaging team associate at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif..

Gretchen Früh - Green, an earth scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, was stunned to find a network of mineral chimneys rising 200 feet from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

The Hertz Corporation is pleased to celebrate its one year anniversary of providing San Antonio with 24/7 vehicle access with On Demand technology and announces special promotions through the end of April, including 20 % off hourly rates at select locations throughout the city and, in honor of Earth Day, 20 % off daily rates on green compact vehicles, EV and hybrid cars.

None of these technologies have panned out: there has been no decrease in CO2 due to these technologies (maybe fracking, if you disregard methane, a green house gas) and, on the contrary, a massive increase in green house gases as well as a reliance on dodgy sources for smelting and acquiring these rare earth minerals and metals.

bearing in mind that only a small percentage of earths population have access to electricity, if we enabled all under developed countries in the world with fossil fuel electricity and heating systems, we would likely have to cover every sq inch of farmland in trees to combat climate change.rather than outright fighting the building of wind turbines (that in future times can be repaired at a fraction of the impact and pollution of replacing them) we should be putting pressure on the manufacturers of these systems and technologies to invest more in finding green solutions to using the polluting chemicals in the construction of turbines.

If green technology were to succeed and the earth's population retained a comfortable carrying capacity, Latimer would become very unhappy.

Technology now available makes a 100 % renewable energy system viable, according to an «Energy Atlas» published by Friends of the Earth Europe, the Heinrich - Böll - Stiftung, the European Renewable Energies Federation (EREF), and the Green European Foundation.

China currently supplies 97 % of the so - called Rare Earths - metal elements which are vital to green technologies like electric cars, fuel cells or wind turbines, not to mention iPhones, plasma screens, and myriads of other consumer goods.

I'm guessing, and this is just a gut feeling, that once industry embraces the technology, people such as our friends from Green Peace, Earth First.

Prominent AGW «defectors» include Dr. Judith Curry, professor of climatology and chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Dr. Patrick Moore, chemist / ecologist / activist co-founder of Greenpeace and former director of Greenpeace International; Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, a leader in the European environmental movement and «green» energy; Dr. Richard S. J. Tol, IPCC author and professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Dr. James Lovelock, inventor / scientist / ecologist and formulator of the «Gaia hypothesis.»

Well, certainly better agriculture methods and technology made fools of the green «Earth Day» fanatics.

But as worldwide demand for rare earths is also expected to grow 10 percent a year, the prospect of strict Chinese control over them could mean a reorientation of how businesses around the world, especially those in green technology, operate.

That the second show, starting in Shanghai on Earth Day, has gone eco-friendly is an acknowledgment of just how unhealthy that appetite could continue to be — and a reminder of China's great opportunity to leapfrog to sustainable technologies, integrating green into its growth from the get - go.

Earth Times runs several eco friendly blogs (environmentally friendly) on various topics such as ecotourism (sustainable travel and tourism), eco fashion, green living, green gadgets and clean technology, plus various other environment based news categories including pollution and science news.

But it's also home to 93 percent of global production of so - called rare earth elements — including two metals essential for a wide array of green technologies, from hybrid cars to wind turbines.

Tim Carmichael — President, Coalition for Clean Air Theo Colborn — President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange Jeremy Jackson — Oceanographer, Scripps Institute for Oceanography Tzeporah Berman — Campaign Director & Founder, Forest Ethics Gloria Flora — Director, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions Mikhail Gorbachev — Founding President, Green Cross International, 1990 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Omar Freilla — Director, Green Worker Cooperatives Wallace J. Nichols — Senior Scientist, The Ocean Conservancy Diane Wilson — Author, An Unreasonable Woman Andrew Weil — Director, Program for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona Thomas Linzey — Executive Director, Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Michel Gelobter — President, Redefining Progress Jerry Mander — Director, International Forum of Globalization William McDonough — Architect, William McDonough & Partners (as Bill McDonough) Bruce Mau — Creative Director, Bruce Mau Designs John Todd — Ecological Designer Rick Fedrizzi — President & CEO, US Green Building Council Greg Watson — Vice President, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Lester Brown — President, Earth Policy Institute Herman Daly — Professor, University of Maryland, Former Senior Economist, World Bank Betsy Taylor — Founder, Center for the New American Dream Wade Davis — Explorer - in - Residence, National Geographic Society Leo Gerard — President, United Steel Workers International Union Mathew Petersen — President & CEO, Global Green USA Peter Warshall — Ecologist, Whole Earth Catalogue Andy Lipkis — President & Founder, Tree People Rest of cast listed alphabetically: David Attenborough (archive footage) George W. Bush (archive footage) Al Gore (archive footage) Arnold Schwarzenegger (archive footage) Brian Williams (archive footage)

Scarcity of the metal is a sustainability and a political issue, according to a recent article in the TimesOnline, Crunch looms for green technology as China tightens grip on rare - earth metals.