The Weekly: Obama Drills, the Grid Lobby Powers Up, ConAgra Sees the Light

Top News: This week, President Obama startled both his allies and critics with a plan to permit drilling for oil off the Southern Atlantic states and in the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile the Secret Service, in a stroke of karmic justice, denied the president’s request for a hybrid limo. […]

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April 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Clean Energy, Climate Change, Environment, Matter Network, The Weekly | Leave a comment

The Treadle Pump: An Exercise in Productivity

Farmers in Bangladesh have long had an irrigation problem. Water is often plentiful in ponds or in the shallow water table underfoot, but getting that water onto the crops is no easy task. A solution has appeared in the form of the treadle pump, a sort of Stairmaster that pumps water. […]

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December 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Clean Energy, Environment | 4 comments

A Refrigerator Powered by the Sun

The very idea of a solar refrigerator is a contradiction: Use the hot sun to keep things cold. How could such an oxymoron possibly work? […]

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December 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Clean Energy, Climate Change, Environment | 7 comments
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