Today President Obama is travelling to the Philadelphia area to hold a town hall event with employees at Gamesa Technology Corporation, a manufacturer of large-scale wind turbines, to further discuss the U.S. energy future.
In addition to his goal for increasing the US renewable energy portfolio and decreasing dependence on oil, energy efficiency ranks as vitally important for the country.
Not just in homes and buildings, Philadelphia has revved up its energy efficiency campaign in the streets.
Every state is the best at something. Wyoming has the cleanest air, California is safest for workers, and Colorado has the lowest obesity rate. Wisconsin can boast the highest graduation rate and Ohio, the highest library usage (but, who knows how long it will endure with layoffs and lower salaries on the horizon in those struggling states). Florida offers the most affordable in-state college tuition.
Spring means breeding season for toads and, in Philadelphia, that means closing off a city street so the tiny creatures are safe from traffic as they seek their mates.
Each year for the month of April, 150 volunteers organize the Toad Detour in the city’s Roxborough neighborhood, where American toads leave the woodlands of the 350-acre Schuylkill Center to breed across the road at an old reservoir.
New diets for cows and sheep could reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, research funded by Britain’s Department for environment shows.
Feeding the animals maize silage, naked oats and higher sugar grasses could reduce the amount of methane they produce, which is harmful to the environment and accounts for nine percent of all British greenhouse gas emissions.
25 tons of leftover food each year was dumped into landfills following Boston Bruin hockey games alone. Now, the lasagna and pizza, Italian sausage and panini sandwiches are donated to the Boston Rescue Mission to feed the city’s hungry, and the entire National Hockey League has followed suit.
Syd Mandelbaum began 21 years ago in Long Island, NY funneling donations of “rock star’ quality leftover food directly to a soup kitchen that he helped found in 1987. It was the opening chorus in a great symphony of charity and recycling that became “Rock and Wrap it Up”.
25 tons of leftover food each year was dumped into landfills following Boston Bruin hockey games alone. Now, the lasagna and pizza, Italian sausage and panini sandwiches are donated to the Boston Rescue Mission to feed the city’s hungry, and the entire National Hockey League has followed suit.
Syd Mandelbaum began 21 years ago in Long Island, NY funneling donations of “rock star’ quality leftover food directly to a soup kitchen that he helped found in 1987. It was the opening chorus in a great symphony of charity and recycling that became “Rock and Wrap it Up”.
With higher gas prices becoming a recurring reality, you should follow these tips to help reduce the amount of gas you use. Including advice about cruise control and what kind of gas and oil you should buy, these tips can save you money
1) Don’t Drive Like You Have a Dying Man in the Car Unless you Do
Aggressive driving (speeding, rapid acceleration and braking) wastes gas. It can lower your gas mileage by 33 percent at highway speeds and by 5 percent around town. Sensible driving is also safer for you and others, so you may save more than gas money.
With higher gas prices becoming a recurring reality, you should follow these tips to help reduce the amount of gas you use. Including advice about cruise control and what kind of gas and oil you should buy, these tips can save you money
1) Don’t Drive Like You Have a Dying Man in the Car Unless you Do
Aggressive driving (speeding, rapid acceleration and braking) wastes gas. It can lower your gas mileage by 33 percent at highway speeds and by 5 percent around town. Sensible driving is also safer for you and others, so you may save more than gas money.
A 10-year-old Pittsburgh boy took $8,500 out of his college education fund to buy the Super Bowl XX ring that once belonged to former NFL standout “Refrigerator” Perry.
“I Googled Mr. Perry and saw that he had a disease and had to sell it because of rough times,” he said. “I thought he would want it more than I did.”
Mixing 70 percent animal fat, and 30 percent used cooking oil, Pennsylvania’s largest biodiesel plant is on track to produce a record 40 million gallons of fuel this year, enough to rank among the nation’s five busiest plants.
Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture toured the Erie-based Hero BX plant last week, where trucks and trains refuel and 40 employees work round the clock, 365 days a year.
The Tata Group announced a collaboration with MIT scientist Daniel Nocera, founder of SunCatalytix, to develop an electrical power source that uses only minute quantities of water. Through a technique that mimics photosynthesis the process may be able to meet the entire planet’s electricity demands for one day using only a swimming pool-sized container of water.
The process splits hydrogen from water to generate power from the sun.
The Tata Group announced a collaboration with MIT scientist Daniel Nocera, founder of SunCatalytix, to develop an electrical power source that uses only miniscule quantities of water. Through a technique that mimics photosynthesis the process may be able to meet the entire planet’s electricity demands for one day using only a swimming pool-sized container of water.
The process splits hydrogen from water to generate power from the sun.
Thousands of Macedonians took a day off work to plant three million trees to revive the nation’s forests after fires ravaged an estimated 86,000 acres (35,000 hectares) of greenery.
A nationally-known opera singer launched this latest effort. Around 30 million trees have been planted in the last three years by human rights activists, organizations and citizens.
Normally, Babu does not enjoy taking walks. But, the elderly shih tzu, insisted on leaving the house minutes after the March 11 earthquake in Japan.
Babu stubbornly headed for a nearby hill rather than taking their usual route along the coastal city streets of Miyako. The owner relented and followed.
Five new genes have been definitively linked to Alzheimer’s disease, doubling the total confirmed by scientists and opening new areas for research into an illness that affects 35 million people globally.
The genetic pathways were reported in two studies involving more than 50,000 people worldwide. Some of the connections found involve systems that control inflammation and cholesterol in the brain.
One mile offshore, search teams in Japan have rescued a survivor – a dog stranded at sea for three weeks atop an expanse of floating debris.
A helicopter searching for missing people spotted the dog on Friday afternoon.
The dog appeared to be in good condition and wore a collar, but it had no contact information. Officials are broadcasting photos so the owner might be found.
One mile offshore, search teams in Japan have rescued a survivor – a dog stranded at sea for three weeks atop an expanse of floating debris.
A helicopter searching for missing people spotted the dog on Friday afternoon.
The dog appeared to be in good condition and wore a collar, but it had no contact information. Officials are broadcasting photos so the owner might be found.
The U.S. government is sending some robotic help to Japan to help regain control of the tsunami-damaged nuclear plant.
A top Energy Department official told a Senate panel Tuesday that a shipment of “radiation hardened robotics” from the Department’s Idaho National Laboratory is being shipped to Japan along with several radiation-hardened cameras and operators to train people in how to use them.
In what is the largest single-hospital kidney swap in the state, five patients received new kidneys from five healthy donors in a marathon series of operations performed Friday at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.
Loved ones were able to contribute kidneys even though they were not a match for their family members. Strangers were matched up with others to produce a transplant chain 10 organs long.
(READ the story in the San Francisco Chronicle)
For the first time, women’s death rates from lung cancer are dropping, a long-anticipated drop coming more than a decade after a similar decline began in US men.
In the early 1990s, death rates in men began dropping and declined 3 percent per year between 2005 and 2007. Researchers had anticipated the same pattern would appear among women, and it has now begun.
