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Nike Helps Contract Factories Reduce Climate Footprint
Categories: Agriculture, Biofuel, Energy, Energy Systems, Green Business, Land Use, Manufacturing - Wednesday Apr 16, 2008 08:56Nike has completed the first phase of an energy-efficiency project aimed at reducing energy consumption within its footwear contract manufacturing base.
Interactive Sustainable Agriculture Website Created
Categories: Agriculture, Biofuel, Energy Systems, Illinois, Land Use, Models, Waste - Monday Mar 10, 2008 02:41URBANA — The University of Illinois Agroecology/Sustainable Agriculture Program (ASAP) has been active for almost 20 years. Recently the program has created an interactive website to foster dialogue and sharing of information on sustainability.
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.
Biofuels, computer tech, stargazing among topics of U. of I. spring lectures
Categories: Agriculture, Energy Systems, Illinois, Models, Waste, Water - Thursday Jan 17, 2008 10:00One laptop per child; biofuels and world food; the rapid loss of languages; the consequences of knowing your genes; Shakespeare as an astronomer, and Muslim reactions to a Danish cartoon - all will be among the topics this spring in lectures and discussions sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois.