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more on Evaporative cooling - refrigerators?

more on Evaporative cooling - refrigerators?

Filed Under: cultural, energy, green Gadget, health on August 3, 2009

Following our earlier post on evaporative air conditioning (Hot? try evaporative cooling), here’s another clever use of evaporative cooling. For [...]

Hot? try evaporative cooling …or solar cooling

Hot? try evaporative cooling …or solar cooling

Filed Under: city living, design, energy, environment, green Gadget, health on July 28, 2009

Canada’s westcoast is experiencing a major heatwave… one of only a few that has occurred over the past 100 years of recorded history. Temp [...]

Pee for Fuel

Pee for Fuel

Filed Under: city living, energy on July 14, 2009

I love this internet stuff! Gotta Go!? Maybe go into the fuel tank… one day? Finally a use for that by-product of large liquid lunches. From July 3r [...]

Wind energy …bad for the Environment?

Wind energy …bad for the Environment?

Filed Under: energy, environment on June 23, 2009

One of the things the Urban Treefrog blog would like to do, is to stimulate thought about what is truly “sustainable”. It is always intere [...]

Planes better than trains in Greenhouse gas emissions?

Planes better than trains in Greenhouse gas emissions?

Filed Under: energy, environment on June 10, 2009

True or false: taking the commuter train across Boston results in lower greenhouse gas emissions than travelling the same distance in a jumbo jet. Per [...]

Canadian eco-Energy efforts

Canadian eco-Energy efforts

Filed Under: energy, environment on June 9, 2009

A few years back, a group of westcoast Canadian design professionals were invited to China to give a presentation on Canadian sustainability ideas and [...]