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JulyInternational Day of Cooperatives: (July 3) This day recognizes the indispensable role cooperatives play in economic and social development. The aim of the day is to highlight the complementarity of the goals and objectives of the United Nations a…

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Movie theaters are embracing the the green movement including LEED.

” … theaters are making an effort to help viewers go green … including Georgia-based Carmike Cinemas … built a LEED-certified theater in Chattanooga, Tenn., which opened in November … ”

” … Environmentally conscious theater construction and design are growing trends … Some theaters are installing solar panels … and using recycled building materials for new theaters and existing facilities that are under renovation.”

Via: FORBES LINK

Coke is huge – and uses huge quantities lots of raw materials including water. Listen to Coke’s VP of the Environment talk about Coke’s activities for minimizing water use. " … using new water filtering and recovery technologies to bring the company’s water use down.”

Via: SmartPlanet LINK

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Conventional gasoline engines are terribly inefficient things. Only 13% of the energy of the fuel actually moves the car. 62% is lost in the engine as waste heat, and driveline losses, accessories, and idling also reduce the efficiency.

Transonic Combustion is planning to build automobile engines with improved efficiency obtained through heating and pressurizing gasoline before injecting it into the combustion chamber. “This puts it into a supercritical state that allows for very fast and clean combustion, which in turn decreases the amount of fuel needed to propel a vehicle,” according to MIT Technology Review. A transonic test vehicle achieved 64 MPG in highway driving, compared to a 48 MPG hybrid Prius, and running at a steady cruising speed of 50 mph, the test vehicle achieved 98 MPG.

Like diesel and HCCI, the Transonic Combustion technology operates without needing a spark plug. Timing software also further enhances the operating efficiency of the system. Transonic injection is being developed for use with gasoline engines at present, but will also be compatible with advanced low carbon footprint bio-fuels in the future. Transonic expects its system will be comparable in cost to other current high-end fuel injection systems.

Because of the higher operating pressure, the longevity and durability of the engine will be important considerations the company will need to address. The company plans to build its production facility in 2013 and expects to be building engines for production vehicles in 2014.

via: Inhabitat

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Beginning today, Google has begun providing bicycle directions for its Google Maps service with directions for cyclists in 150 cities in the United States. Google already incorporates public-transit and walking directions in addition to automobile driving directions, and the bicycling community has been calling for Google to add bike routes for some time.

The routing suggested for cyclists is designed to avoid freeways and high-traffic areas, and to select gentler terrain by routing around hills. To make it even more useful for riders on the go, Google expects to have a mobile version available in the near future, as well.

Climate science will be reviewed by independent scientific panel. …

… “He said he was not certain how many members would serve in thegroup, but said they would represent a variety of scientific disciplines. He expects to complete the review by the end of August … ” …

http://nyti.ms/aKBEIY

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers develop chemical process that efficiently produces biofuels from cellulose: “developed a promising new chemical method to liberate the sugar molecules trapped inside inedible plant biomass, a key step in the creation of cellulosic biofuels. The approach, which is described in the March 9 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, can convert three-quarters of the sugars locked up in raw corn stover into simple, fermentable sugars, making it an attractive alternative to the enzyme-based approaches currently favored by biofuels researchers. ” http://bit.ly/c0mfRA

Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center supported this biomass research project: “The researchers found that water was the key to making the process efficient. Without water, the sugars produced by the action of the ionic liquid and the acid rapidly degraded into other compounds.” http://bit.ly/cMYxV9