http://biggreenmonster.tv/business Tue, 19 May 2009 18:58:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Rio Hondo, Texas algae farm     Plants such as soybeans and sunflowers produce oil that can be used to make biofuels. Although these crops have received a lot of media attention in the last several years, they require intensive management and may not be sustainable in the long term due to rising ... http://biggreenmonster.tv/business/?p=66 Image [via] mytimes.com Mayor Bloomberg of New York has recently announced some big administrative decisions to aid the Big Apple in reaching sustainability. He recently declared that by October one thousand New York cabs would be converted to hybrid energy. The vehicles would run on both gasoline and electric power, ... http://biggreenmonster.tv/business/?p=64 [via] science.nationalgeographic.com http://biggreenmonster.tv/business/?p=63 Mayor Bloomberg is proposing a "green" plan that has the potential to drastically change the New York City skyline and shores. It is part of his effort to make New York the most energy efficient city in the nation. The mayor's "windmill power plan" is the boldest environmental proposal yet from ... http://biggreenmonster.tv/business/?p=62 Image [via] fortheplanet.files.wordpress.com The New Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year for 2006 was carbon-neutral--counteracting the release of carbon dioxide--which gives you some sense of the fad that is carbon offsets. With the success of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, there is a rising wave of guilt about the carbon ... http://biggreenmonster.tv/business/?p=61 Photo [via] flagstaffphoto.blogspot.com Distributed Power! When it comes to energy independence, something is excellent in the state of Denmark. Before John McCain and Barack Obama say another word about America's energy future, maybe they should go to Denmark. Denmark has done what other countries only dream of doing: achieved energy independence. While Europe's overall ... http://biggreenmonster.tv/business/?p=60 If harnessing the sun's energy for your home still isn't enough efficiency for you, consider a new development by MIT scientists: power-generating windows. Although the technology won't be commercially available for about three years, it could open up whole new doors windows in renewable energy when it does hit the market. ... http://biggreenmonster.tv/business/?p=59 Solar water heaters are mandatory in all homes in Israel. China, second to the US in total wind potential, plans to produce 30 gigawatts of wind power by 2020, enough to power between 13 and 30 million Chinese households. The first plant to generate electricity using geothermal energy is in Tuscany. It ... http://biggreenmonster.tv/business/?p=58 What can I do? I am only one person and everything seems so hopeless. I might as well give up.  Do you know that feeling? Well, whenever I feel like that I go look for stories of inspiration, and this morning a friend showed me just that.  I was told about ... http://biggreenmonster.tv/business/?p=56 "Danish experience from the past 15 years shows that offshore wind farms, if placed right, can be engineered and operated without significant damage to the marine environment and vulnerable species. The comprehensive environmental monitoring programmers of Horns Rev Offshore Wind Farm and Nysted Offshore Wind Farm confirm that, under the right ... http://biggreenmonster.tv/business/?p=54