A Planet Green Celebration Of The Blue Oceans

Planet Green celebrates the world’s oceans, seas, and waterways with it’s month long Blue August programming. Information you need to stay up to date with the issues and get involved with important projects that are cleaning up our precious water resources.

Hosting Blue August are the prominent conservationists and explorers Philippe and Alexandra Cousteau, drawing on the half-century legacy of their legendary family of explorers. These dynamic siblings have dedicated their life’s work to advocacy on behalf of the oceans, conservation and clean water, undoubtedly one of the most daunting and important challenges of our time. Philippe and Alexandra bring their engaging personalities, individual expertise and experience to Blue August through short-form content and entertaining hosted segments throughout the month. (More on these two outstanding young world citizens to follow.) (more…)

Scottie, Shields Up!

Advantage Window Systems, Inc. became the owner of IN’FLECOR Control Systems in April of 1999 and moved the company from Canada to Aledo, Texas, just west of Fort Worth, Texas.

They now are manufacturing the world’s first magnetic reversible solar panel that could heat in the winter, keep your home cooler in the summer, keep your furniture and carpet from fading from the UV’s, and cut the UV’s by up to 92%. A see through Insulating Panel mounted to the inside of windows, doors or skylights. The panel is manufactured of a metalized, coated, polyethylene sheet laminated to a sheet of carbon graphite PVC that is then perforated and laminated to a sheet of clear polyester. (more…)

Greener, Stronger, Cooler, and Night Brighter

Tyler is the first city in the State of Texas to use a new type of overlay called E-Krete for roads, shoulders and runways. Created, manufactured and distributed by Mississippi based PolyCon Manufacturing, city engineers say it will cut costs and improve overall quality of streets. E-Krete is an extremely durable polymer composite micro-overlay (PCMO™) that bonds securely to asphalt pavement, chip seal, polished stone and other bituminous products, as well as concrete and primed metal. (more…)

How many remote controls do you have? 4 or 6 or maybe 8? How many times have you grabbed a remote control for the TV and got the DVD one?

That means you have to supply batteries to all of those remotes. Unless you have a re-charger, those batteries that are dead go into the trash and then onto the landfills.

Well, Yamaha Electronics has come up with an answer called the new Yamaha neoHD. This baby will connect all of your entertainment system together and shoves all of the remotes to one side. A device that simplifies your entire entertainment system. One remote, one on-screen interface, complete control.

With only 1 remote control to handle all of the devices you have, saves the landfills from tons of toxic battery waste (you should be recycling them anyway, but we know not all batteries make it).

No rush to go out and buy one of these when you could enter for a chance to win your own neoHD by;

- Tweeting: “I just entered to win a #neoHD b/c I have too many remotes, visit (blog.izea.com) to enter”

- enter via blog.izea.com, leave a comment on why you desperately need the new neoHD..

- find neoHD on facebook.

Be sure to check out the rules of the Yamaha neoHD Sweepstakes

I am sure you are going to go right over and enter.   Should you win one of these, please let us know how it works out for ya!

Tired of hearing about hydrogen cars yet?

No? – Good – cause here’s another one for you!

A team of 40 students at Sakarya University, Turkey, have built an astounding hydrogen car. All 40 are members of the Advanced Technologies Implementation Group (SAITEM) at the university, comprised mostly of students who do the technical and mechanical work. This hydrogen fuel powered vehicle they call SAHIMO, is capable of an incredible 1,412 MPG (568 kilometers per liter). Constructed of 90% carbon-fiber this little aerodynamic vehicle weighs in at less than 243 pounds (110 kilograms). Not sure if that is fully fueled or not, nor the size of the fuel tank. But with that kind of mileage, you wouldn’t need more than a 2 gallon tank max and fully fueled would be not much over 16 pounds (7.26 kilograms). (more…)

Horizon’s fuel cells enable the world’s first affordable hydrogen car!

A new generation of fuel cells developed by Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies has enabled the world’s first low-cost and practical hydrogen car. The top secret UK development unveiled June 16 2009 in London is a two-seater zero emissions hydrogen-electric city car with an expected fuel consumption equivalent to 250 miles per gallon (US), four to five times better than today’s best available hybrid electric vehicles. What’s more, this innovative car could be made available to consumers for just £200 ($315) per month. (more…)

Taking Advantage of Free Sunlight

The concept was originally developed by the ancient Egyptians, directing natural light utilizing light tubes with reflective material is the oldest and most widespread type of natural lighting of interior spaces.

Solar tubes also known as light tubes, sunscoops, or tubular skylights admit natural light into dark interior rooms of homes and buildings. People enjoy the natural lighting that skylights provide. However, skylights often do not distribute light evenly, are a significant source of energy loss, and can cause UV damage to carpets and furniture. Solar tubes, on the other hand, use the sun for lighting interiors without the drawbacks associated with conventional skylights. To prevent harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation from fading carpets and furniture, UV inhibitors are molded into the rooftop dome on most models. Another bonus of choosing solar tubes is that they deliver far less heat, as do many standard skylights. Because of this lack of heat gain, tubular skylights save money on air conditioning bills during the hot months. (more…)