Tag: Arizona
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3,000' Tower Will Generate Clean Power from Hot Air and Cool Water
A downdraft energy tower that uses hot air and sea water to generate electricity is in the works near the US-Mexico border.
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Saguaro National Park Says No to Bottled Water AND Soda Sales
"If parks in some of the hottest, driest areas of the nation can take this step without fear of losing visitors to either disenchantment or dehydration, what’s stopping all the others?"
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Arizona Tribe & Enviro Groups Defend Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Ban Against Industry Lawsuit
"We intend to defend these lands from this ill-considered attack by the uranium industry.”
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Can Small-Scale Compost Entrepreneurs Circumvent the NIMBYs?
Small-scale composting collection services seem to be proliferating. Can they take on larger, less-popular industrial-scale composting?
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ASU to Install 1MW of SunPower's Innovative New Solar Tracker
ASU is installing yet another large-scale solar array on its campus. This one uses a tracking system that claims to slash solar costs considerably.
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U.S. Expected to Extend Moratorium on New Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon
After nearly two years of debate, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is expected to announce approval of a 20-year moratorium on new uranium mining claims.
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Grand Canyon Reconsidering Plastic Water Bottle Ban, Could Be Implemented By Springtime
About a month since the Grand Canyon abandoned a plastic bottled water ban in the park after hearing from Coca Cola, the plan is back on.
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Grand Canyon Abandons Bottled Water Ban, After Meetings With Coca-Cola
The Grand Canyon was on track to ban bottled water sales in the park until Coca Cola registered its 'concerns' about the ban.
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ASU Buys Green Energy for Homecoming Game, Continues Commitment to Clean Tech
ASU isn't just covering its parking lots with solar. It's partnering with utilities to buy renewables and spread the word too.
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Bill Would Open Grand Canyon Area to Uranium Mining, By Foreign Companies
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last month announced a 20-year plan to protect the Grand Canyon from increasing uranium mining pressures. A bill introduced in Congress this week to "save uranium mining," the Northern Arizona
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Barn Raising Reinvented: Neighbors Install Water Cisterns for Each Other (Video)
As I argued in my post on why masturbation is an economic act, human beings have countless non-monetary ways to facilitate trade and build true wealth for themselves and their communities. From Portland's tool
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ASU Parking Lot to Sport 2MW Solar Parasol, Reduce Heat Island Effect
TreeHugger's Pablo was asked the other day whether solar contributes to the heat island effect. Because panels are dark in color, went the query, do they actually increase the amount of heat absorbed in an urban
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Think Big! Arizona Solar Tower 2X Taller Than the Empire State Building Will Produce 200 Megawatts
2625 Feet Tall! Solar towers, which are kind of big funnels that generate electricity by using the fact that hot air rises, are too often forgotten when we discuss solar energy. Solar PV and CSP get all the press, but solar towers
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8 Year Old Kenzie Proves Weekday Rainfall Declining
Image: 8 year old Kenzie Brown with her Science Project, photo from Josh Brown, Kenzie's Father We Affect Weather? Do you ever have the feeling it always seems to rain on the weekends but not on the weekdays? So did 8 year old Kenzie Brown, of Phoenix,
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Moratorium on Uranium Mining in Grand Canyon About to Expire - Will BLM Cave to Lobbyists?
It is approaching time for the Bureau of Land Management to once again consider whether or not to allow bids for uranium mining on more than one million acres of land near the Grand Canyon. The two-year moratorium that is now
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7 Volunteer Vacations...in Warm Climates
Right about now, winter is getting a little old -- especially for residents of the Northeast U.S. and Western Europe who've been pounded with snow, slammed by wind, and chilled with freezing temperatures for more than
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Release Of Sterile Pests May Help Eliminate Need For Genetically Modified Crops
Mass release of sterile crop pests can be a practical control strategy (presumably even for organic farmers). As reported by SciDevNet, 'release of sterile insects has
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Brittlebush: A Desert Tent Home of Rammed Earth & Reclaimed Steel By Simon de Aguero
From a recent graduate of Arizona's Taliesin, the architectural school founded by Frank Lloyd Wright, comes this beautiful tent-like desert shelter made primarily from tensile fabric, rammed earth and salvaged steel. Designed by Simon de Aguero and
