NewWays for Environmental and Social Change

March 29, 2008,(Saturday) the World celebrates Earth Hour. People around the world are invited to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. In Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai, Sidney and Tel Aviv, energy conservation efforts and commitments will be acknowledge. Please read more [...]

Dye-sensitized solar cells invented by a chemistry professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, could be used in the production of power generating windows, buildings facades and perhaps even in clothing. These solar cells are made of titanium oxide nanocrystals which have been placed between two glass or plastic plates after they [...]

Twisting light by introducing an angular momentum scientists at the Urbana Champaign have succeeded in having a photon carry 1.63 bits of information.This technique can serve in satellite communication providing a greater amount of information carried per unit of energy. Please original article.
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13522-twisting-light-packs-more-information-into-one-photon.html

The challenge to built a car that can achieve 100 miles per gallon or other source of energy and is ready to race in the fall of 2009 has been officially announced by the X Prize Foundation. Some of the promising technologies to power these cars will be lithium-ion bio-diesel hybrid and compressed-air.
via popularmechanics: http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4255349.html

New low voltage chip designed by researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments will allow pace makers and other medical implants to recharge from own body heat with no need for battery power.This chip could also be the future of cellphones and hand held computers which will be recharging from body heat.
Read original article at; http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17183/53/

A high magnification microscope can be attached to newest cellphone models for medical use in remote places. This modular application for a cellphone was developed by researchers in Berkeley, California, and has the capability to allow identification of cancer cells or other diseases.
Read original publication at: http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20433/

Using solar nanotechnology and the air/hydrodynamics knowledge a new hybrid, functional for city trasnportation is already here.
Read articles for more information http://www.venturi.fr/electric-vehicules-astrolab-concept.html http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2007/10/racing-on-solar.html

Imagine a world without trucks by envisioning that just as gas, oil or water can be transported through subterranean pipes so could other goods, such as supply groceries and all sorts of other goods from their production location to the stores. European countries are meaning it now as they are contemplating the idea of pneumatic [...]

New report by the Brookhaven National Laboratory predicts that the new generations of solar panels will reduce production coast as well as CO2 and other harmful byproducts release during the production process of solar technology. Thus, non-conventional energy begins to become even more enticing when the desire to protect our environment is a goal.
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The days of powering up the laptop or even plugging in the gadget for the long trips ahead, may be over. If we can only get them mass produced and the others fully recycled and out of the landfills.http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1411/

Much of the fresh water wealth of the world -which only make less than 2% of the globe’s water resources- is threatened by pollution according to Peter von Stackelberg who is with the research and consulting firm Social Technologies. Their report, just released, predicts the impact of our behavior on the world fresh water resources [...]

Craig Venter and his research team is seeking to design bacteria from scratch and custom-engineer them to produce bio-fuels or help the body fight illness. British Petroleum is already interested in such processes although such synthetic organism developments are still in their baby shoes. Access original article at:
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/06/28/venter-synthetic-bacteria-tech-science-cx_mh_0628venter.html

Predictions on Solar Power over the next 20 years are exciting news for a green world. At the moment solar and wind energy only serve 1% of the world’s energy needs. However, it is predicted that in the next twenty years things will look differently.
Read original article: http://www.livescience.com/environment/080219-kurzweil-solar.html

Researchers at Pen State have a proof-of-concept device that does what plants and trees do so well: turning sunlight into fuel such as recoverable hydrogen from splitting water molecules.
Please read original article: http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=4572.php

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a strategy to equip liquid fossil fueled vehicles with an onboard fuel processor. This has the scope to separate the hydrogen and the carbon in the fuel. While hydrogen will then power the vehicle, the carbon will be stored in the vehicle and later disposed at a [...]