Courtesy of ASU News Climate science researchers from Arizona State University are launching a first-of-its-kind online “game” to better understand the sources of global warming gases. By engaging “citizen scientists,” the researchers hope to locate all the power plants around the world and quantify their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The game officially began May 13 and [...]

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Courtesy of UAlberta News University of Alberta researchers have developed guidelines that are being used by the timber industry and government foresters to get a jump on climate change when planting trees. Maps developed by Laura Gray, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Renewable Resources at the U of A, provide projections of climatically suitable habitat [...]

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Courtesy of UC San Diego News The tail of a seahorse can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage occurs, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found. The tail’s exceptional flexibility is due to its structure, made up of bony, armored plates, which slide past each other. Researchers are [...]

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Courtesy of ASU News Faculty and students in ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration are collaborating with artists of an upcoming exhibition centered on the issue of limited earth materials, specifically copper, on view Feb. 8 through May 11 at the ASU Art Museum. The exhibition, titled “Cu29: Mining for You,” will explore the [...]

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Courtesy of Arizona State University ASU researchers have developed a new software system capable of estimating greenhouse gas emissions across entire urban landscapes, all the way down to roads and individual buildings. Until now, scientists quantified carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at a much broader level. In a new BreakThrough Science video posted on the American [...]

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Courtesy of UC Berkeley News Center By Robert Sanders A long-abandoned fermentation process once used to turn starch into explosives can be used to produce renewable diesel fuel to replace the fossil fuels now used in transportation, UC Berkeley scientists have discovered. Campus chemists and chemical engineers teamed up to produce diesel fuel from the [...]

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Courtesy of The University of British Columbia University of British Columbia researchers have invented a safe, efficient technology to wirelessly charge electric vehicles using “remote magnetic gears” – and successfully tested it on campus service vehicles. “Wireless charging has been a much sought-after technical solution for everything from cell phones to electric cars,” says UBC [...]

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By Cole Parnell : Graphic Designer Shift Into Green Energy Independence was a student ad campaign I created while enrolled at Santa Barbara City College. My professor Liz Russotti gave us the assignment with an objective of creating a full-scale ad campaign for a good cause. The assignment included print work, 2 social media sites, a [...]

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Courtesy of The University of British Columbia Today, the University of British Columbia officially opened a pioneering $34-million clean energy facility, making it Canada’s first university – and one of a few institutions worldwide – to produce both clean heat and electricity for its campus from renewable bioenergy. UBC’s Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility (BRDF) [...]

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With rapidly declining natural environments comes new opportunity for the inhabitants of these ecologically endangered regions – capitalist opportunity. Granted that the majority of areas facing habitat loss are located away from the general public and therefore relatively unknown, theses sites are in serious danger of falling completely out of existence. There is however a [...]

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