Posted on November 12th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
The 2011 SeaWorld and Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards recognize the efforts of students and teachers across the country who are working at the grassroots level to protect and preserve the environment. All K-12 schools in the United States and formally recognized school groups, such as a grade level, classroom or club are eligible to apply. Public, private and licensed home schools are also eligible. Awards include $10,000 for eight award-winning projects and all expenses-paid trip to a SeaWorld or Busch Gardens park for the awards event. DEADLINE: Dec. 1, 2010.
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Tags: Awards, Competitions for Students, Contest, Environment, Environmental, Ocean
Posted on November 11th, 2010 by jxh
Recycling is extremely important because it reuses materials, reducing waste and pollution, and keeping our planet clean.
Many laptops contain recyclable components, including precious metals such as platinum. However, those components are usually melded together in such a way that no ordinary person could safely deconstruct them.
That is why a group of grad students from Stanford University designed the Bloom laptop, which can be disassembled for recycling in just two minutes without any tools.
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Tags: Computer, Environmental
Posted on November 5th, 2010 by axb
We’ve written about more than a few creative transportation ideas on this blog, but this one takes the cake: a huge, road-straddling vehicle that operates like a type of bus-subway hybrid.
Originally created by Chinese engineers and set to arrive in Beijing in 2011, this super bus will be powered by electricity combined with rooftop solar panels. It will travel at speeds of 25-50mph and sit about eight feet above other vehicles, allowing them to pass underneath the passenger compartment.
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Tags: Civil, Environmental, Green Technology, Green Transportation, renewable energy, Transportation
Posted on October 28th, 2010 by jxh
CLARIFICATION: Our original story, “Tree Bombs to Combat Deforestation,” was based on a report by the blog Treehugger, which cited an original article published in 1999. We can find no indication that the idea ever received funding for trials or implementation. A corrected story follows:
Look up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … a tree?
In 1999, an MIT researcher designed a plan to take a fleet of old, unused C-130 Hercules cargo planes – originally created to drop land mines – and recommission them to drop “tree bombs” that would aid growth in deforested areas.
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Tags: Aerospace, Environmental, Military, Transportation
Posted on October 21st, 2010 by jxh
This country is in desperate need of road safety – in 2008, 37,000 people died in car accidents in the United States. The greatest threat to drivers is other drivers, as the leading causes of accidents are distractions such as texting, rubbernecking, or gazing at the scenery.
That’s why Google engineers have been working on vehicles that can drive themselves, using artificial-intelligence software that mimic a human driver.
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Tags: Cars, Computer, Environmental, Mechanical, Transportation
