The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) announced the winners of its 2010 Innovation Awards recently. One of the well-deserving turned out to be Lakota Solar Enterprises, a renewable energy company owned entirely by Native Americans. Jeanne of CalFinder Solar reports: Lakota…
Solar Roof in Wooster, Ohio to be Largest College Solar Roof in U.S.
The College of Wooster has plans in place and a contract signed to install a 20,000 square foot solar roof on top of a new student recreation and athletic facility under construction, the Scot Center. “The solar rooftop installation will be…
Greece to Revive Its Economy with Green Energy on Old Prison Island?
The Aegean island Ai Stratis (about 8 hours by sea from Athens), once a place for Greece to send prisoners, will be the center of an economic revival pilot project via clean, green energy according to Greek prime minister George…
Natural News TV Objects to Censorship by the FDA
The short film “Ignorance Is Power” by Natural News visually illustrates food as medicine. And it addresses the problem that information about how food and drinks can be used as medicine is being interfered with by FDA censorship of nutritional…
B.A.D. Posts from Important Media
As most of you know, last Friday was Blog Action Day (B.A.D.), where bloggers across the Internet pull together to raise awareness about one issue. This year’s topic was water, which is important in so many different ways. Several sites on…
10 Water Facts (+ a few)
This post is part of our participation in Blog Action Day 2010. If you hadn’t heard, water is sort of important for our health… some even say we need it to live. Yeah, I guess this isn’t news to you.…
Water Mining and Global Warming Making Sea Levels Rise
This post is part of our participation in Blog Action Day 2010, which is on the topic of Water. We are all familiar with the fact that as our world warms, ice in the North and South melt and cause…
Africa Getting its First Giant Wind Farm
Four Cape Verde islands have just been granted funding to build Africa’s first giant wind farm. The project is being considered a model for other African countries. The European Investment Bank (EIB) and African Development Bank (AfDB) agreed last week…
Deforestation Rates in Brazilian Amazon Dropped 47% in August
Data released publicly last Friday indicates that deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon were 47% lower in August of 2010 compared to August of 2009. Nice to hear that. This information was released by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research…
McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys to be Banned in San Francisco?
We know that fast food is bad for us. It’s filled with excessive calories, sodium and fat. It’s “meals” are often based largely on meat, which is very damaging to the environment as well as our health. Yet, we seem…