In Vals, Switzerland, SeARCH and Christian Müller Architects have created an amazing house tucked into the side of a mountain.
The site of the house is located close to close to the famous thermal baths of Vals, which presented a challenge to [...]
In Vals, Switzerland, SeARCH and Christian Müller Architects have created an amazing house tucked into the side of a mountain.
The site of the house is located close to close to the famous thermal baths of Vals, which presented a challenge to [...]
Highway barriers erected along roadways to block the sound and sight of traffic for the adjoining neighborhoods may also be reducing the amount of pollutants, such as soot from diesel exhaust, reaching area residents, [...]
Magneti Marelli and Telit Communications S.p.A. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the area of GSM and GPRS modules to be used on automotive telematics devices. The agreement aims at developing info-mobility and tracking functions and services, and provides for Telit to supply Magneti Marelli with cellular M2M [...]
A core group of 15 commercial airlines has signed non-binding memoranda of understanding (MOUs) for negotiating purchases from two different producers of synthetic jet fuel: AltAir Fuels LLC and RenTech Inc. These alternative fuels will be more environmentally friendly, on a life cycle basis, than today’s petroleum-based [...]
It’s good to see that Mark Brinkley’s considerable intellect is grappling with the debates that Copenhagen has set off. Last week he posted on economic growth, with the inevitable ensuing mixture of measured debate and asterisk anger from Mr Anonymous, and this week he’s turned his attentions to population, [...]
Indiaâs government has placed a Nuclear Liability Bill in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The bill, going against various Supreme Court judgments, aims to put a cap on the liability amount that private companies will have to pay towards damages in the case of a leak or accident.
The bill [...]
COPENHAGEN -- Iranian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe plan to address negotiators at international climate talks in Copenhagen next week.
The three leaders are listed in a line-up of more than 180 government officials published in a United Nations [...]
The company in charge of a California project to extract vast amounts of renewable energy from deep, hot bedrock has removed its drill rig and informed federal officials that the government project will be abandoned.
The project by the company, AltaRock Energy, was the Obama administration’s first major test of [...]
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. and the City of Kita-Kyushu, Japan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly promote zero-emission mobility. The project named “Kita-Kyushu; Environment and Technology Town ‘e-Frontier Project’”, aims to create a low-carbon society through the mass introduction of electric vehicles.
The zero-emission partnership will initiate a [...]
We previously pointed out the above quote, then stumbled upon the video below where 9-year-old children answer some questions about how they see the world.
Questions include: identifying the most famous celebrities, their first computer interactions, and their fears. If nothing else, [...]
Meanwhile, in the Christiania Freetown, a semi-autonomous neighborhood to the north of downtown Copenhagen, an alternative climate forum is being held in a big blue circus tent just half a block away from an open air hash and marijuana market. This climate forum, [...]
As we are engulfed from all sides by suffocatingly one-sided coverage of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, three hugely important issues have been largely stuffed away from sight.
The first of these is the matter of cost: the scarcely believable bill [...]
"This unprecedented and extremely generous investment rivals the amounts Branson spent [...]
Mona Charen's column today makes some key points, several excerpted below:
It’s chilly. There is the pesky fact that, contrary to the dire predictions of climate alarmists, there has been no measurable increase in world temperatures since 1998. Yet the amount of carbon dioxide pumped into the [...]
Business Standard. India Hero Group subsidiary Hero Electric and Canada-based Electrovaya have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a joint venture for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Details reportedly will be finalized within the next six weeks.
“We have today signed a MoU with Electrovaya for forming the [...]
Global Warming and Mt. Kilimanjaro -- The glaciers on the famous peak, receding for more than a century, attract many tourists; the people of Tanzania attract much less attention.
Climate change has captured the attention of politicians around the world. The following article is part of a series, leading up to [...]
On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve' [...]
A late friend of National Wildlife Federation and the National Wildlife Federation Action Fund, Jim Range, has been nominated posthumously for Budweiser conservationist of the year. Jim Range was an avid fisherman and hunter, and founder of the Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.
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Talk about a long life, 104, and lived 
