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Vertical Greenhouse Built in Vancouver Parking Garage

Valcent plans to launch an innovative high-tech greenhouse in Vancouver, by transforming a parking garage into a modern urban garden. The company wants to revolutionize farming techniques, giving residents unlimited access to healthy food, CleanTechies informs. The VertiCrop system relies on suspended four-meter-...

28 December 2011
02:30 GMT

New USB Hub from GreenHouse Looks Just Like a Colorful Power Strip

Without a doubt, USB hubs really do come in all shapes and sizes nowadays, and one of the most interesting example of such a product we've come across lately belongs to Japanese company GreenHouse.Without a doubt, one of the main selling points these new USB hubs have in store is represented by their very unusua...

22 March 2011
08:26 GMT

Growing Potatoes Upside Down

A new technology makes soil no longer necessary to grow potatoes, or at least seed potatoes for now, proved a new research project carried out by Newco – Potato Technology Transference Company, and Neiker-Tecnalia – the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development.The team of researchers man...

11 November 2010
03:04 GMT

Manipulate Time in Braid for Mac OS X

Developer greenhouse has blessed the Macintosh platform with what is probably the best puzzle game out there. Titled Braid, greenhouse's game was awarded the "Casual Game of the Year" at the 12th Annual Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Awards, and was nominated for five Xbox Live Arcade 2008 awards, winnin...

21 May 2009
09:31 GMT

Heat from Our Energy Will Still Affect the Climate

Global warming, the term that has become so worrying as of late, represents an obvious imbalance between the energy flow and the energy generation in the global climate, which is a result of humans' greenhouse gas emissions and increased releases of heat caused by the energy usage process. The latter concept has...

8 December 2008
17:51 GMT

Recycle Your Car

The recent Automotive News Green Car Conference held at The Diamond Center at Rock Financial Showplace in Novi, Michigan, stressed on the fast pace of gas cost and on the decrease of vehicles' carbon footprints. Major automotive issues related to lower emissions, fuel saving, enhanced safety or higher degrees of...

19 November 2008
07:51 GMT

Carbon Dioxide Is Not Alone

The group of known threats to the environment has recently added two more previously ignored gaseous members. Although still far from the huge impact that carbon dioxide has as a greenhouse gas, the rising levels of methane and nitrogen trifluoride in the atmospheric air are fueling new concerns. Ron Prinn, an atmosp...

27 October 2008
03:35 GMT

Algae Have a Bright Future

The algae business could be on its way to the spotlight, as new companies emerge and quickly become very competitive on a very tight market. A good example in that direction is Greenfuel Technologies, based in Massachusetts, which recently opened its first algae-powered greenhouse, with the express purpose of creatin...

21 October 2008
03:50 GMT

Mirrors Could Keep Us Cool

Over the past few years, greenhouses gained a negative reputation, if only by associating their name with terrible words such as greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases and so on. But now it seems that they could also provide the key to cooling the environment, granted it’s in a slow and tedious way. Weather expert...

13 October 2008
06:22 GMT

Canadian Researchers Make CO2 Emissions Obsolete

Canadian researchers from the University of Calgary have come up with a new device which captures the carbon dioxide from the surrounding atmosphere. The machine is built from materials that don't belong to the high-tech, but rather to the “near-commercial” technology.David Keith, Canada Research Cha...

1 October 2008
06:03 GMT

Wild Bees Infected by Commercially Bred Species

The mystery behind the massive decline in the wild bee populations in North America can be explained through the spread of diseases from commercially bred species, which appear to escape from greenhouses that are used to grow crops, such as tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers, said researchers yesterday. Commerciall...

23 July 2008
05:31 GMT

It's Raining Methane on Titan!

New observations with the Cassini orbiter show that Saturn's moon Titan contains large quantities of hydrocarbon liquid, about a few hundred times more than the natural reserves found here on Earth. Hydrocarbon gas condenses into Titan's dense atmosphere, then it is raining down on its surface much in the s...

14 February 2008
02:48 GMT

12 Amazing Facts About Atmosphere

1.The Earth is wrapped in a layer of gas called atmosphere. Atmosphere is tied to Earth by gravitation, so that it cannot disperse in the space. It is 500 km (300 mi) thick, being made of a mix of about 10 gases, called air. The air is made by nitrogen (78 %), oxygen (21 %) and other gases (argon, carbon dioxide, he...

14 January 2008
16:26 GMT

Beer Fridges Boost Global Warming!

Fridges do not stop messing with the planet. After CFC gases dumped in the last decades into the atmosphere that destroyed a lot of the ozone layer, now another fridge issue is increasing the expelled amount of greenhouse effect gases. Eliminating "beer fridges", old devices encountered in many North American and Aus...

29 November 2007
03:39 GMT

Dell Loves Nature, Goes for Carbon Neutrality

Dell announced a new rather radical plan of reducing its environmental footprint by the way of a new partnership with its customers in order to build a global scale community dedicated to the improvement of the environment. This program makes Dell the first major computer systems manufacturer and vendor to launch suc...

27 September 2007
09:22 GMT

Keep Your Greenhouse Next to Your PC

Ever wanted to grow some flowers, but you were just too busy typing away at your computer to remember to water them? Well, now the USB enabled Greenhouse has the answer for you, as it comes with everything you need to grow your very own flowers and that without stepping very far away from your computer.A cool gadget ...

15 September 2007
06:59 GMT

Scientists Believe We Could Soon Create Instant Oil and Natural Gas

Scientists believe there's a chance to solve the problem of future oil and natural gas shortages, by creating new reserves in a short time that could be regarded as just a flash compared to how much is believed to take for oil to form underground.Although there is no effective way of doing that just yet, Jennif...

20 July 2007
11:17 GMT

Boeing Presents the Ecological Dreamliner Passenger Jet

This weekend, Boeing, the largest global aircraft manufacturer by revenue, the second largest by deliveries and the second-largest defense contractor in the world, will unveil the latest creation, the 787-9 Dreamliner, an environmentally friendly aircraft it hopes will revolutionize the industry of air travel.It...

6 July 2007
11:25 GMT

How Do Americans Expect to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

A recent survey shows that most Americans now believe that global warming is happening, and want the federal government to take action to limit its effects. But what form should this action take, and most of all, do they understand the financial costs involved?Global water supplies shrink, and as they do, economic a...

20 June 2007
12:57 GMT

Could We Dump Greenhouse Gases into Space?

Many people are beginning to realize that global warming is not going to go away by itself, as engines that burn gasoline emit pollutants, such as carbon dioxide, that cause global warming.Moreover, fossil fuels that took millions of years to form are rapidly depleting and can't regenerate overnight. For exampl...

5 June 2007
10:14 GMT

Arctic Ice Is Melting Three Times Faster Than Computer Models Say

The Northern Hemisphere is warmer. That's because there are more land masses, that trap more heat during the summer. That's why ice packs on the North Pole are more sensitive to the global warming and it would shrink faster at minimal temperature changes, unlike the Antarctic ice, which is much more stable....

7 May 2007
09:14 GMT


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