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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Reducing Greenhouse Emissions by Turning Trash From Landfills Into Alternative Energy
Posted by: Brad Roderick
Day in and day out people throw out trash which eventually ends up in landfills across the country. What many people don’t do is think about how that trash can be used to benefit the environment. In the Philippines however, men and women are gathering at the Payatas dumpsite, the largest in the Philippines, to gather trash that can be turned into alternative energy.
Here is a video from cnn.com about the efforts to reduce green house emissions in the Philippines.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Google Offsetting 45,000 Homes Using Carbon Credits Made from Waste
Posted by: Brad Roderick
I would like to share an article from treehugger.com, written by Jaymi Heimbuch, that looks at Google’s involvement with the Berkeley Green Power Project, which aims to create enough carbon offsets to equal electricity emissions of 45,000 homes annually.
Google Offsetting 45,000 Homes Using Carbon Credits Made from Waste
Google is a big promoter of green energy, from dreaming up possibilities of their own (like using wave power for data centers) to investing in and customizing alternative energy projects (like super efficient and cheap solar panels). Now, the Internet giant is moving into promoting landfill waste-to-energy and gaining ground in its goal to be a carbon neutral company by purchasing carbon offsets in a new project in Berkeley County, South Carolina.
In a joint effort by the Berkeley County Water & Sanitation (BCWS), Blue Source, Google and Santee Cooper, the Berkeley Green Power Project is turning biogas into about 3 MW of electricity, enough to power 15,000 homes in the Southeast. The project will also create roughly 200,000 to 300,000 metric tons of carbon offsets – equal to the emissions from electricity used by approximately 30,000 to 45,0000 US households annually – at least some of which Google is purchasing.
Environmental Leader writes, “Blue Source will quantify and market the emission reductions in the form of voluntary carbon credits. The company plans to register the third-party verified credits created by the project on the Climate Action Reserve’s public registry. The project is said to be the first of its kind to be implemented along South Carolina’s coast. The credits Google purchases will be retired and not allowed to be further sold or traded.”
Friday, June 4, 2010
The 15 Most Toxic Places to Live
Posted by: Brad Roderick
Ever wondered where the most toxic places on Earth are located? Here is a list of the top 15 from mother nature network.
The 15 Most Toxic Places to Live
Apocalypse now?
As the world’s population balloons to almost 7 billion, it’s become more and more difficult to find anywhere on Earth unaffected by man-made pollution and development, and far too often it takes things going really wrong before people take action to keep our planet clean. So here’s a list that might help to motivate: The 15 most polluted places in the world.
Citarum River, Indonesia
The Citarum has been called the world’s most polluted river. Around five million people live in the river’s basin, and most of them rely on its flow for their water supply.
Chernobyl, Ukraine
Chernobyl is the town in northern Ukraine home to the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. Once home to more than 14,000 residents, the town remains mostly uninhabited and unsafe today due to extensive radioactive contamination.