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Iceland?s Abundance of Energy
Categories: Agriculture, Air Polution, Biofuel, Buying Renewables, Economics, Energy Systems, Geothermal Energy, International, Renewable Energy, Waste - Wednesday Mar 5, 2008 11:31Read the full story in E The Environmental Magazine.
“We see Iceland as the world?s laboratory for a decarbonized future,” says Ingibjorg Sólrun Gisladóttir, the country?s foreign minister and former mayor of Reykjavik. Of course, many countries say similar things, but Iceland has a head start, because it?s partly decarbonized already. Some 85 percent of Iceland?s homes are heated with geothermal energy, which also produces 18 percent of the country?s electricity. The rest is emission-free hydroelectric power from the many dams on Iceland?s free-flowing rivers. As much as 72 percent of Iceland?s primary energy is renewable, the highest percentage in the developed world. Coal smoke no longer darkens the skies.
GLNPO Request for Applications - Great Lakes Collections of Household Unwanted Electronics and Medicines
Categories: Buying Renewables, Economics, Energy Systems, Funding Opportunities, Models, Pharmaceutical Industry, Recycling, Water - Wednesday Jan 16, 2008 01:07The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes National Program Office is requesting applications for an estimated $175,000 in funding for 8-10 cooperative agreement grants which would mobilize citizens and communities to collect and recycle household unwanted electronics and/or dispose of unwanted and expired medicines from within the Great Lakes basin. Both prescription and over the counter medicines can be collected. Selection criteria include the potential for a successful collection event taking place during the week of April 22, 2008.
The Request for Applications is available today through a link from http://epa.gov/glnpo/fund/glf.html or directly from http://epa.gov/greatlakes/fund/2008-1rfa01/2008-1rfa01.html.
Applications must be RECEIVED or postmarked BY 5:00 PM, Central Standard
Time on February 28, 2008.
Park Slope Coop Takes Ownership to a New Level
Categories: Agriculture, Cooperatives, Economics, Energy Systems, Illinois, Models, Water - Friday Dec 7, 2007 12:00Erica BarnettBy an odd coincidence, we happened to share dinner the other night with two members of the Park Slope Food Coop, an organic food cooperative...
Worldchanging on the CBC
Categories: Economics, Energy Systems, Land Use - Friday Dec 7, 2007 12:00Alex SteffenNice article on the CBC website the other day, A little good news: Green America: Not surprisingly, Americans being Americans, the whole crisis has taken...