tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90162616192582111422011-08-02T15:48:24.728-05:00Going Green Isn't Just for LandlubbersShyaamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214068322791080287noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016261619258211142.post-49663795242135039032010-05-02T11:36:00.001-05:002010-05-02T11:37:38.315-05:00

I wanted to try out Wordpress, since I've heard good things, so my blog has been moved to greenbeardthepirate.wordpress.com

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My earlier post on sustainable air travel was merely an amalgamation of information I read about the different airlines on their websites and on the internet.Green America's Responsible Shopper Program, however, decided to do a more detailed expose on the state of recycling in the airline industry. Their report, which looks at 11 different airlines and ranks their level of recycling can be found

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I was listening to CNBC the other day as they were talking about the new Boeing Dreamliner, more fuel efficient planes, and the direction of the airline industry. Curious, I decided to search for "Green Airlines" to see which airlines are making strides to implement more sustainable and eco-friendly practices.There were 3 airlines that had very interesting and innovative sustainability strategies

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My compact fluorescent bulb finally died, and I had no idea what to do next. My building does recycle, but CFLs were not in the list of items to recycle.Luckily, a quick google search for compact fluorescent bulb recycling brought me to earth911It's a pretty cool website, that lets you know where to recycle different things. I just typed in "Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs," typed in my zip code,

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General Electric has been getting into Smart Grids lately, even releasing an amazing new website to inform consumers of the benefits of smart grid technology for their homes and their lives.I'm going to digress for a second here, because this particular website is one of the best websites I've come across. Particularly for this one page where the website asks you to print out a piece of paper (

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Finally, things have eased up a little at work, and I have some time for life!I still am in the process of writing the post about the Green Festival in May. Though it was 3 months ago, there were still a lot of interesting things to see there.On to the point of my post title...I was riding the bus this morning, and it was the third time I'd managed to get on one of the new hybrid buses that the

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I'm going to be volunteering at the Chicago Green Festival this weekend on both Saturday and Sunday, and I'm really excited!I looked through the speakers list, and I noticed that John Perkins is going to be there. I'm reading his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, right now, and it is a great read. He'll be doing a session on "Transforming Turmoil into a New Economy," so I'm looking

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I was reading the NY Times this morning, and I came across this article. It's about this woman named Annie Leonard, who created this video with support from different NGOs. The 20-minute video essentially goes through the human consumption cycle, following the creation of stuff from the extracting raw materials from the planet to the point where we dispose of these items.Due to a lack of

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I have recently started getting emails from the Union of Concerned Scientists. I'm not quite sure how I signed up for their email lists, but I decided to check out their website and found that they have an amazing section on Clean Energy.The site gives excellent descriptions of different clean energy technologies and how they work - photovoltaic solar, geothermal systems, biomass as replacements

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One of my friends, Alex Moore, sent me this article on solar energy.A company called SolarEn is looking to develop technology to send solar panels into space, then transmit the energy gathered by the space panels back to the Earth through radio signals. The amount of energy captured without atmospheric filtration could potentially be 10x higher than what can be captured by panels on land.While

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I've been extremely busy over the past few weeks with work, so I haven't had much time to update the blog. I have a few ideas for articles, so I hope to get some written this weekend...

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I came across an interesting article on Green Inc. today. Two environmental organizations, the Audubon Society and the Natural Resources Defense Council, have developed a map of 13 states in the Western United States which highlights areas where potential alternative energy development could adversely affect the environment.If wind farms or massive solar plants were built in the areas highlighted

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I was watching Planet Green the other day, and I saw a special on the first wind farm in the Netherlands, the Offshore Wind Farm near Egmond aan Zee.The farm is a 36 turbine, 200 million Euro project built on the initiative of the Dutch government and managed by NoordzeeWind, a joint venture between Nuon and Shell Oil.The Planet Green documentary explained how these turbines were set up. They

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I've put together a short list of why pirates (in the romantic, Pirates of the Caribbean sense...not the literal take-over-Ukranian-tankers-with-tanks-and-weapons-and-hold-it-for-ransom sense...) like environmental sustainability and clean technology:1) Pirate ships run on one of the cleanest sources of energy available: Wind.(The above picture shows you how Pirate ships are wind-powered...in

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While on my computer, trying to combat insomnia, I came up with an amazing idea.I like Pirates.And I'm interested in Clean Technology.So why not combine the two?!Now, I haven't exactly thought this through, but I imagine that I'll come up with something in my next post that will find some way to link Pirates and Cleantech.

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I was watching a show on Planet Green TV - a very good channel recently started by the Discovery Company- called Eco Tech. This particular episode was about how scientists are devising ways to ultimately reach zero waste by converting garbage into useful energy and productsOne of the companies they were showcasing is a company called TerraCycle Inc. This company was started by Princeton students

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I ran across this company while I was searching the web called Solar Botanic. They essentially have this concept to develop artificial trees which would act like solar panels to capture sunlight and generate electricity. Plus, the trees would also utilize the wind through the swaying motion of its leaves and branches whenever the wind blows.The most important concept of this artificial tree is a

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In my last post, I'd talked about how First Solar made a breakthrough with their photovoltaic cell fabrication process to reduce the cost of solar to under $1 per watt. My roommate, Zach, forwarded me an article about First Solar, which relates to my last post. The article, from CNet Green Tech, is about how First Solar acquired the rights to complete projects that a rival solar company called

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Following up on my article on Sharp Corp. and it's solar power focus, I was reading a few articles in the NY Times about solar power. The recession has taken quite a toll on solar companies, which were growing very rapidly over the past few years - according to this article on the Green Inc. NY Times blog, Cleantech investments jumped from $270 million to over $4 billion from 2003 to 2008.A lot

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I realized that my last two posts were about cars. I have to admit that I really know nothing about them, though I do find alternative energy vehicles fascinating. So, I've decided to step away from cars and turn to solar power.During one of my phases when I started investing some of my savings in the stock market, I started looking for companies that were researching and developing innovative

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The major American automobile manufacturers are not doing to well...Wikipedia has a pretty decent summary of what happened with the "Big Three" automakers.If you don't want to read that summary, essentially the "Big Three" suffered from a multitude of problems that their Japanese and Asian competitors don't have to deal with and they were hit hard with the credit crisis in 2008:1) Unionized

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When I was in high school, I didn't really have a car. I relied mainly on the school bus as my mode of transportation - even in my senior year. In fact, I didn't even get a learner's permit or a license when I turned 16. Why get a license or learn to drive when there is a perfectly good way to get to and from school? Besides, it was more efficient and cleaner for the environment. And even

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I was fairly environmentally aware through high school and college. I tried to recycle, I tried to use environmentally sustainable products. But ever since I worked on a project involving consumer water filtration systems at my job as a strategy consultant this past year, I have become obsessed with environmental sustainability. My research for that project involved researching the environmental

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