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Borealis consists of parts that are easily assembled and can be moved by truck to areas that aren't always easy to reach. A steel structure makes up the skeleton of the home, with R-40 walls acting as the skin to  keep the...

Photo via Shutterstock Just ask any dairy farmer, climate scientist, or landfill site director about methane emissions, and they will tell you they are a serious challenge to manage...

From the University of Calgary New model provides lifecycle analysis of ‘well-to-wheel’ oil sands emissions Policy makers need to be cautious in setting new ‘low-carbon’ standards for greenhouse gas...

Hmmm. This sounds a bit like a sales pitch against “dirty coal” in support of the recent EPA Mercury ruling instead of regular geological research. I question this research claim because they only have evidence...

Read the rest of Team Canada’s TRTL Solar Decathlon House is a Modern Take on a Native American Home Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2011 solar decathlon, canada solar decathlon, Department...

Read the rest of Team Canada’s Solar Decathlon TRTL Solar Shell Home is Built for Native Canadians Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", 2011 solar decathlon, eco design,...

Climate change to continue to year 3000 in best case scenarios New paper in Nature Geoscience examines inertia of carbon dioxide emissions New research indicates the impact of rising CO2 levels in the Earth’s atmosphere...

From the “not etched in stone department”, via Eurekalert we learn that  Atomic weights of 10 elements on periodic table about to make an historic change showing that everything we thought we knew, is still subject...