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Future Air Travel: Quieter, Cleaner and More Environmentally Friendly? |
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Less noise, less exhaust, less refuse -- air travel of the future is expected to be quieter, cleaner and more environmentally friendly. To achieve this goal, new structural concepts and aerodynamic profiles have to be engineered, along with better drive concepts as well as adapted logistical designs, and then put to use. In the EU project Clean Sky, Fraunhofer researchers want to make their contribution to solving this Herculean task.
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The ZERO Emissions Race is Passing Through Brussels - Around the World in 80 Days With Sustainable Vehicles |
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 Circumnavigating the globe without producing any polluting emissions? This is the challenge of this international competition which aims to promote alternative and sustainable ways of driving. On Saturday 21 August, the ZERO Emissions Race (ZR) makes a pit stop in Brussels one week after its launch, with an official welcome by European and local authorities at Autoworld, Cinquantenaire Park, from 14:30 to 18:00.
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Sustainable Wine Growing: From the Botanical Research Institute of Texas |
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Botanical Research Institute of Texas creates the International Award of Excellence in Sustainable Winegrowing to recognize winegrowers and winemakers who reflect BRIT's core principles of conservation, sustainability, and wise stewardship of the land.
Fort Worth, Texas – The Botanical Research Institute of Texas will present its first International Award of Excellence in Sustainable Winegrowing to HALL Wines of California at the fourth annual Fête du Vin Wine Dinner and Auction Fête du Vin Wine Dinner and Auction on Friday, October 8, 2010, at The Fort Worth Club.
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Smart City Governments Grow Produce for the People |
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Chard is one of the many plants growing in the Montpelier, Vt. state house vegetable garden.Photo: Waldo Jaquith via FlickrThere's a new breed of urban agriculture germinating throughout the country, one whose seeds come from an unlikely source.
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How to Make a Solar Water Heater From Plastic Bottles |
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 Giovana Zilli
Retired mechanic Jose Alano invented a simple, cheap, energy saving rooftop solar water heater which is benefiting thousands of people. Here's how it's done.
José Alano is a model of creativity in tackling environmental problems in Brazil. In 2002, the retired mechanic transformed a pile of plastic bottles and cartons into a solar water heater. Since then, thousands of people in southern Brazil have benefited from Alano's invention, saving money while reducing waste.
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