This has been a crazy week here at Modern Eco Homes. Sorry we haven’t posted as often as we usually do. We’ll be back to working hard next week. In the mean time, here are some great articles rounded up for your lunch break. Enjoy and have a great weekend. Make sure to stop in daily next week!
- You may know that coffee is the world’s second most traded commodity—a stat undoubtedly given a boost by the great caffeinated blogging legion—but according to researchers in Nevada, coffee could be doubly valuable: For use as biofuel. Well, the waste coffee grounds actually. Here’s the skinny on coffee ground biodiesel.
- We all want to have fun celebrating Christmas, but let’s make sure that our celebrations don’t have a negative effect on the environment. So, go green this year with Ecofriends incredibly easy steps that will give everyone something to celebrate. Click here for Ecofriends 10 great tips.
- HP is giving customers good reason to buy their laptops. Starting next year they will be selling machines with a new battery dubbed “Enviro”. EcoGeek has the story for those of us who love green technology!
- U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon called Thursday for a “Green New Deal” to beat climate change and the economic crisis, as a key E.U. summit began in Brussels and global talks in Poland entered their final 48 hours. Grist has the lastest on this. Click here.
- Continental Airlines will test a Boeing 737-800 fueled partially by biofuel on January 7th. This will be the first biofuel-powered demonstration flight of a U.S. commercial airliner. The test will be powered with a mix of traditional jet fuel and a biofuel made from algae and jatropha plants. GroovyGreen has the whole story.
- When the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) decided to invest in alternative energy sources, it looked to its users for the perfect source of energy. Recently the company decided to update their Tokyo Station with a revolutionary new piezoelectric energy-generating floor. Inhabitat has this awesome news.
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