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1. InfoWorld Green 15 nominations due Feb. 28
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2. Mapping North American Environmental Issues
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3. Virgin Atlantic to Demo Biofuel Flight, but Not Quite There Yet
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4. PakNgo: Bicycle Pannier Makes it Easy to Pack, Go
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5. Video: Pregnant Tigress Rescued in India
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6. Souped Down 1959 Opel T-1 Gets 376.59 mpg
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7. Dolphins and Whales 3D: An Unforgettable Experience
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8. Gravia: LED Lamp Lit by Gravity Lasts 200 Years, Never Plugs In
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9. How To Please The French?
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10. Roundhouse by Eli Attia
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11. Los Angeles Mayor Announces Big Solar Initiative
InfoWorld Green 15 nominations due Feb. 28
2008-02-21 21:46
Ted Samson - Green 15
If your company completed a noteworthy green-tech project in 2007 and you haven't nominated it for the InfoWorld Green 15, don't worry: You still have about a week to do so. The InfoWorld Green 15 award will honor the top 15 green IT projects of 2007; that is, projects resulting in higher energy efficiency, reduced waste, and/or improved impact on the environment. For more information about the award, check out our FAQ -- or you can go directly to the nomination form.... READ MORE 
Mapping North American Environmental Issues
2008-02-21 21:11
Science & Technology
Photo credit: Commission for Environmental Cooperation The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) recently launched a new online mapping tool called the North American Environmental Atlas where North American environmental trends can be visualized at a continental scale. It's a useful offering from the little-known tri-lateral agency created in 1994 in conjunction with the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta). The maps contain base layers of political boundaries, populated places, roads and railroads, coastlines, lakes and rivers, and other geograph... 
Virgin Atlantic to Demo Biofuel Flight, but Not Quite There Yet
2008-02-21 20:37
Business & Politics
We've written about Richard Branson and Virgin's foray into biofuels for aviation. There are some news on that front, but unfortunately they aren't all good. Virgin was never clear on what type of biofuel it was going to use, but it said it wanted something "truly sustainable" that did not compete with food and fresh water resources. It seems like it's not quite what we're going to get for the first flight this month: "it will not be an algae or halophyte-derived alternative, second-generation biofuels that come from renewable and sustainable feedstocks. Rather, it will be a first-generation... 
PakNgo: Bicycle Pannier Makes it Easy to Pack, Go
2008-02-21 20:25
Design & Architecture
TreeHugger likes bikes almost as much as Sasquatch does, so we're always glad to see cool ways to make it easier for everyone to get where they're going under human power. We've seen others, and the PakNgo bike pannier, designed by student designer Hayoung Lee at the University of Technology in Sydney, fits the bill. More luggage than bag... 
Video: Pregnant Tigress Rescued in India
2008-02-21 19:15
Travel & Nature
Here's something you don't see every day (at least, not around where most of our readers are). A pregnant tigress strayed into Deulbari, a village about 150 miles south of Calcutta and close to the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve. Scared villagers threw stones and chased her until she took refuge in a palm tree. "She was eventually shot with a tranquillizer dart and captured before being taken aboard the fishing vessel." Sometimes there's a happy ending. "Her wounds were treated before she was released deep inside the mangrove reserve." The picture above is of the tigress jumping off the fishing boat. Below you can see her swimming to safety, and you can see a 
Souped Down 1959 Opel T-1 Gets 376.59 mpg
2008-02-21 18:45
Cars & Transportation
Could you believe that the car above made the 1975 Guiness World Record book? Its claim to fame is getting an amazing 376.59 miles per gallon of gasoline, and that in a 1973 contest sponsored by Shell Oil (now Royal Dutch Shell). As you can see from the photo above and others further down this article, the car is pretty far from our modern "manta ray-shaped, wind tunnel-vetted carbon fiber space car", as the SeattlePI reporter puts it. How did it achieve such high fuel economy when even our modern hybrids are orders of magnitude less efficient? What can we learn from it? Read on.... 
Dolphins and Whales 3D: An Unforgettable Experience
2008-02-21 18:10
Culture & Celebrity
We were very excited to attend the world premier event of Dolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean last week in Boston. As we previously reported, the film is presented by Jean-Michel Cousteau and narrated by Daryl Hannah, so we couldn't wait to put our 3D glasses on. The evening started with a cocktail party amongst the penguins and fish in the New England Aquarium. We were served hors d' oeuvres and champagne while mingling with filmmakers Jean-Jacques and Francois Mantello, Jean-Michel and Daryl. After toasting to the film's powerful message and, of course... 
Gravia: LED Lamp Lit by Gravity Lasts 200 Years, Never Plugs In
2008-02-21 18:09
Design & Architecture
When we talk about going off-grid, or otherwise unplugging from traditional power sources, it usually involves solar or wind power, or some other alternative that doesn't involved your local utility. Young designer Clay Moulton has figured out how to harness a different source to create electricity: gravity. "Gravia" is his LED-lit floor lamp that combines human power and gravity to create a lighting source that will work for 200 years or so, and never need to be plugged in. The lamp has a weight tha... 
How To Please The French?
2008-02-21 18:02
Cars & Transportation
We may soon forget about Three Ways To Piss Off The French, as this French export-by-sail venture makes it easy to race past the hybrid-vehicle ruminations, to some low-carbon French wines shipped on a 111-year old sailing vessel. Imagine 60,000 bottles of Languedoc-area wines, from hundreds of small producers, shipped to Ireland on a restored three-masted schooner, chartered exclusively for French wine distribution. She is the Belem, built in 1896 and restored several times (as pictured). You can learn her entire history here.... 
Roundhouse by Eli Attia
2008-02-21 17:31
Design & Architecture
Architect Eli Attia tells Forbes Magazine "Enough of this nonsense of building homes the way we did 100 years ago, It's all a waste." So what is he building in Beverley Hills? A 13,000 square foot roundhouse- instead of a McMansion it is a giant round McPatty. It is prefab, recycled steel, has rainwater collection and a green roof. It is true that a circle of a given perimeter encloses more area than a square of the same perimeter, so there is some logic to this if you can figure out how to furnish the round rooms (speak to anyone who has ever lived in a dome about this.) Attia says "We have to be more efficient in how we build,W... 
Los Angeles Mayor Announces Big Solar Initiative
2008-02-21 17:05
Business & Politics
Image courtesy of current events via flickr At a press event meant to highlight LA's renewed focus on clean energy - carefully staged with a row of solar panels as the backdrop - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and several state officials, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, announced a solar initiative that would create up to 400 green jobs over the next 3 years to install and maintain solar panels on buildings around the city. ... 
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