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  • MIT Group Used Solar Energy To Make Salty Water Drinkable In Off-Grid Areas

    Eleanor Goldberg

    May 14, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: India, Jalgaon

    MIT engineers created a cost-efficient solution to the lack of potable water in rural India. They built a solar-powered desalination model, which won the Desal Prize at the "Securing Water for Food" challenge.

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  • Sustainability Pioneers: Becoming Energy Independent

    Kirsi Jansa

    May 12, 2015 |

    Sustainability Pioneers |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Germany, Saerbeck

    Saerbeck, Germany is setting the standard for sustainable energy use and the reduction of their carbon footprint through a series of projects. Through these projects, private and public buildings as well as farms have installed community owned solar power and transparency around the central heating plant has increased to help inform the community of ways to make less environmentally harmful decisions.

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  • Carbon Pricing Helping Farmers Ease Methane Pollution

    John Upton

    April 24, 2015 |

    Climate Central |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    The government wants more farmers turning waste methane into biogas to help combat the negative effects of global climate change. California is leading the initiative, largely through a cap-and-trade program.

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  • Catching Waves and Turning Them Into Electricity

    Amy Yee

    April 22, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Australia, Perth, Western Australia

    Researches off the coast of western Australia are harnessing power from the ocean's waves in a new pilot project involving buoys. In their current state, the buoys are able to generate a small percentage of electricity for a nearby military base as well as aid in powering a desalination plant.

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  • Can saltwater quench our growing thirst?

    Brian Bienkowski

    April 13, 2015 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Population growth, climate change, and droughts are factors that have depleted the world’s freshwater resources. Scientists around the world have experimented with desalination of salt water to increase the supply the drinking water and have achieved positive results. In 2015, more countries and cities in the world look to provide desalination, including California’s $1 billion effort to build a plant for San Diego.

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  • When the grid says no...

    Peter Thomson

    April 07, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin, Berlin

    Too much solar and wind power in Germany is overloading their grid. A firm developed a new technology that uses super-fast batteries and software to hold intermittent wind and solar power when more than needed is generated.

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  • Tiny Blue Bubbles Designed to Help Save the Planet

    Alan Jeffries Amy Marino

    March 16, 2015 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Livermore, California

    The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has designed a new technology that captures carbon dioxide at power plants before it goes into the air. This new method, which is much more efficient and affordable than other carbon dioxide capturing methods, uses microcapsules filled with a fluid that absorbs carbon dioxide. While it’s not going to solve climate change entirely, this new technology has shown promising results for at least slowing it down.

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  • Refugee camp in Nepal adopts eco ethos

    Seán Dagan Wood

    March 13, 2015 |

    Positive.News |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Damak

    A Bhutanese refugee camp in Damak, Nepal is giving its displaced inhabitants a brighter future thanks to green investment through sustainable, eco-friendly projects that respond to refugees needs.

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  • Looks swell

    The Economist

    March 12, 2015 |

    The Economist |

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    Response Location: Australia, Perth

    Carnegie Wave Energy created a system to generate electricity from the ocean’s waves to power Australia’s largest naval base. The system, known as CETO 5, has buoys bobbing up and down below the ocean’s surface that drives a pump attached to the seafloor and pushes water through a pipe to the power station. Each buoy can create 240 kilowatts, and all together the system produces about 5 percent of the base’s electricity. The system will need to be upgraded if they plan to put buoys further at sea where the swells are greater.

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  • Seattle's micro-housing booms offers an affordable alternative

    Susan Kelleher

    March 04, 2015 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    People need a place to sleep and eat, they need privacy, but they also need community. Seattle had a recent boom in micro-housing which offers a community living model where individuals have a personal tiny room and bathroom but share a kitchen.

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