http://en.redtram.com/ News on "Books"  in "America" Copyright (c) 2009 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:08:41 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif 245667 | TransAlta In Hostile Takeover Bid For Canadian Green Power Company http://en.redtram.com/go/211274389/top100/ 211274389 Canadian Hydro wind farm on Cowley Ridge east of Crowsnest Pass.Image credit:Canwest News Service/Ted Rhodes, via. The offers a somewhat cynical view of a recent green power takeover move, in which Canadian TransAlta has bid to take over the country's Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:58 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274389/top100/ 245667 | Sophisticated yet Funky Looks with Recovered Vintage Garments by Ana Walsh http://en.redtram.com/go/211274383/top100/ 211274383 Photos: Courtesy of Ana Walsh.One of our favorite green clothing designers in Buenos Aires, , has come up with a new collection for her 'Fashion Archeology' line and now makes beautiful items for children too.In addition to earning points for Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274383/top100/ 245667 | Gadget Repair Business Doubles for The iPod Doc and Others http://en.redtram.com/go/211274382/top100/ 211274382 Photo via NPR has an excellent report this morning on about the gadget repair business. According to the news report, business has doubled since the downturn in the economy. Could this mean the start of a culture shift towards heirloom Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274382/top100/ 245667 | Congress Hearts Hydrogen: Federal Fuel Cell Funding Could Soon Be Restored http://en.redtram.com/go/211274381/top100/ 211274381 photo: via flickrEnergy Secretary and President Obama pulled from the budget, saying that it was more important to concentrate on other technologies, but members of Congress aren't having any of it. reports that both the House a... Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274381/top100/ 245667 | Should A House Be Edible? http://en.redtram.com/go/211274384/top100/ 211274384 Via Preston at Jetson Green recently put up a post entitled and I got really excited; I have often thought that the ultimate green home would be made of materials so harmless that you could actually eat them, that there Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274384/top100/ 245667 | Smart Grid Status According to the DOE, and Security According to (eep!) Black Hat http://en.redtram.com/go/211274386/top100/ 211274386 Photo via If you ever want to get freaked out about how vulnerable our technology is to the (let's face it) brilliant hackers out in the world, check out Black Hat. This year's event will look at the smart grid, Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274386/top100/ 245667 | Build a Geodesic Dome Solar Greenhouse to Grow Your Own Food (Slideshow) http://en.redtram.com/go/211274388/top100/ 211274388 What do you do when you want to grow your own food, but live more than a mile above sea level in Colorado? That's the question my dad wanted to answer when he started this project about a year ago: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274388/top100/ 245667 | California Budget Deal Saves Parks, Keeps Offshore Drilling Plan http://en.redtram.com/go/211274387/top100/ 211274387 Last year, as the dog days of summer began to fade away, I took to the road here in California, hopping from state park to state park on vacation. I have planned a similar trip this year, but it was Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274387/top100/ 245667 | Jon Stewart Takes Down Climate Bill, Interviews Steven Chu http://en.redtram.com/go/211274380/top100/ 211274380 Mon - Thurs 11p / 10cJon Stewart Jizz-Ams in Front of Chi... Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274380/top100/ 245667 | Slow Money: Making Economics Work for Us All http://en.redtram.com/go/211274385/top100/ 211274385 Image credit: Slow Money National Gathering Aims to Put Ethics Back in FinanceIt would be tempting to say that slow is the new fast, but lazy clichés seem somehow antithetical to the search for authenticity and substance represented by advocates Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274385/top100/ 245667 | Samsung Investing $4.3 Billion Towards Greener Gadgets http://en.redtram.com/go/211274379/top100/ 211274379 Photo via Now there's the kind of commitment we like hearing from a gadget company. In its Eco-Management 2013 report, the South Korean company Samsung says it is investing $4.3 billion in greening its gadgets and its facilities by, you Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274379/top100/ 245667 | Could Mobile Technology Save Europe Billions? http://en.redtram.com/go/211274373/top100/ 211274373 Photo via Yes. Er, well, sort of. According to a new report by Vodafone titled mobile technology can be a driver in getting Europe's energy bills cut by about $61 billion (€43 billion) annually, and cut emissions by 113 million Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274373/top100/ 245667 | Could North Carolina Ban Wind Turbines for Being Ugly? http://en.redtram.com/go/211274372/top100/ 211274372 Photo via It's well known that many object to the looks of wind farms and solar plants . But now, North Carolina state lawmakers are actually moving to make it against the law to install large wind turbines in the Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274372/top100/ 245667 | Malaysia's Big Agro-Forestry Fail: Land Converted to Rubber Plantations Still Classified as Protected Forest http://en.redtram.com/go/211274371/top100/ 211274371 photo: via flickrHopefully you're aware of the astonishingly high rate of in Malaysia and Indonesia -- due in large part to logging and . In Malaysia, 82% of remaining forest cover is managed in special protected reserves, which allow selective Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274371/top100/ 245667 | Eastman Wins Green Chemistry Award http://en.redtram.com/go/211274374/top100/ 211274374 Future scientists will surely look back at the tremendous growth era of chemistry in the previous century and muse about the medieval 20th century technology. For millenia, nature has produced everything life on the planet needed using only the energy Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274374/top100/ 245667 | Clean Coal Financials Daunting in the Short Term http://en.redtram.com/go/211274375/top100/ 211274375 photo: via flickrWe've consistently pointed out that there's really no such thing as , when you look at how the stuff is mined, the waste, and all the other emissions beyond greenhouse gases. Now, a new study coming out of Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274375/top100/ 245667 | PecoBOO: Now Your Computer Sees When You're Gone http://en.redtram.com/go/211274378/top100/ 211274378 Image via Tweaking your computer's energy saving settings is a no-brainer. But that's just the trouble: the computer is making a "dumb" decision to dim the monitor or go to sleep after a preset time. , the British maker of Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274378/top100/ 245667 | How Radar Could Protect Bats From Wind Turbines http://en.redtram.com/go/211274377/top100/ 211274377 Most bats aren't killed from collision with the turbines, but from the changes in air pressure caused by the moving blades, which damages their lungs. Photo: via flickr.The great threat to birds from wind turbines may be, in most places, Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274377/top100/ 245667 | Cutting the Fat from the US Defense Budget is Green: Obama Scraps the F-22 http://en.redtram.com/go/211274376/top100/ 211274376 Photo via the It doesn't take a green blogger to tell you that the government's defense budget is bloated--and that we're manufacturing way more weapons and vehicles than necessary. Which is why it's good news that the senate voted in Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274376/top100/ 245667 | Chicago Net-Zero House is "Clean-Lined and Elegant" http://en.redtram.com/go/211274370/top100/ 211274370 All too often, houses that are really green are not architectural gems, and vice versa. architecture critic Blair Kamin visits Michael Yannell's Net Zero house, designed by Jonathan Boyer of Farr Associates. He approves, noting:The Yannell House, which has four Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:57:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/211274370/top100/