http://ecofriendlytip.com Check out the Latest Green News and Tips Today Wed, 23 May 2012 18:28:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/24/costa-rica-promises-shark-activist-a-fair-trial/ http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/24/costa-rica-promises-shark-activist-a-fair-trial/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 18:28:14 +0000 Rokai http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/24/costa-rica-promises-shark-activist-a-fair-trial/ By Elisa Oddone BERLIN | Wed May 23, 2012 11:19am EDT BERLIN (Reuters) – The president of Costa Rica promised on Wednesday a fair trial in her country for a Canadian conservationist facing possible extradition over a campaign against shark finning, and tried to calm his fears of revenge attacks by Costa Rican shark fishers. [...]

]]> http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/24/costa-rica-promises-shark-activist-a-fair-trial/feed/ 0 http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/23/pollution-hunting-robot-fish-take-to-the-sea/ http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/23/pollution-hunting-robot-fish-take-to-the-sea/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 18:27:04 +0000 Rokai http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/23/pollution-hunting-robot-fish-take-to-the-sea/ LONDON | Tue May 22, 2012 1:02am EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Robot “fish” developed by European scientists to improve pollution monitoring moved from the lab to the sea in a test at the northern Spanish port of Gijon on Tuesday. The developers hope the new technology, which reduces the time it takes to detect a [...]

]]> http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/23/pollution-hunting-robot-fish-take-to-the-sea/feed/ 0 http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/22/fed-by-dry-brush-wildfires-persist-in-southwest/ http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/22/fed-by-dry-brush-wildfires-persist-in-southwest/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 18:23:57 +0000 Rokai http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/22/fed-by-dry-brush-wildfires-persist-in-southwest/ By Mike Saucier PHOENIX | Sun May 20, 2012 2:16pm EDT PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona wildfire whipped up by winds and dry conditions threatened to trigger more evacuations on Sunday, just as firefighters were nearly done battling the biggest of four blazes in the state. Fires in Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado have forced [...]

]]> http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/22/fed-by-dry-brush-wildfires-persist-in-southwest/feed/ 0 http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/21/tropical-storm-alberto-not-seen-to-gain-strength-forecasters-say/ http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/21/tropical-storm-alberto-not-seen-to-gain-strength-forecasters-say/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 18:23:02 +0000 Rokai http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/21/tropical-storm-alberto-not-seen-to-gain-strength-forecasters-say/ By David Adams MIAMI | Sun May 20, 2012 10:58am EDT MIAMI (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Alberto churned slowly toward the South Carolina coast on Sunday where heavy rain and dangerous surf are expected from the beach resort of Myrtle Beach south to Savannah, Georgia, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Bringing an [...]

]]> http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/21/tropical-storm-alberto-not-seen-to-gain-strength-forecasters-say/feed/ 0 http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/20/analysis-new-facilities-spotlight-next-generation-biofuels/ http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/20/analysis-new-facilities-spotlight-next-generation-biofuels/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 18:21:39 +0000 Rokai http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/20/analysis-new-facilities-spotlight-next-generation-biofuels/ By Matt Daily Fri May 18, 2012 6:50pm EDT (Reuters) – After a decade of promise, advanced biofuels makers are entering a crucial make-or-break period with the first of a new generation of production facilities about to come on line. The new facilities are designed to take biofuels beyond corn-based ethanol and begin to shift [...]

]]> http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/20/analysis-new-facilities-spotlight-next-generation-biofuels/feed/ 0 http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/18/apple-to-use-only-green-power-for-main-data-center/ http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/18/apple-to-use-only-green-power-for-main-data-center/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 15:46:15 +0000 Rokai http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/18/apple-to-use-only-green-power-for-main-data-center/ By Poornima Gupta Fri May 18, 2012 8:42am EDT (Reuters) – Apple Inc plans to power its main U.S. data center entirely with renewable energy by the end of this year, taking steps to address longstanding environmental concerns about the rapid expansion of high-consuming computer server farms. The maker of the iPhone and iPad said [...]

]]> http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/18/apple-to-use-only-green-power-for-main-data-center/feed/ 0 http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/17/denmark-aims-low-with-green-energy-policy/ http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/17/denmark-aims-low-with-green-energy-policy/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 15:45:01 +0000 Rokai http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/17/denmark-aims-low-with-green-energy-policy/ By Barbara Lewis SAMSO, Denmark | Thu May 17, 2012 9:16am EDT SAMSO, Denmark (Reuters) – Over a beer or two, Danes like to tell a story that goes like this: One night the energy ministers of the countries around the North Sea got together to divide up its oil and gas wealth. The Danish [...]

]]> http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/17/denmark-aims-low-with-green-energy-policy/feed/ 0 http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/16/total-says-stops-elgin-gas-leak/ http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/16/total-says-stops-elgin-gas-leak/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 15:43:14 +0000 Rokai http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/16/total-says-stops-elgin-gas-leak/ PARIS | Wed May 16, 2012 5:29am EDT PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Total said it had succeeded in stopping the gas leak at its well at the Elgin platform in the North Sea after it pumped heavy mud into it. During the coming days, teams of experts from Total and specialist contractors will closely monitor [...]

]]> http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/16/total-says-stops-elgin-gas-leak/feed/ 0 http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/15/world-living-beyond-its-resources-summit-off-track/ http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/15/world-living-beyond-its-resources-summit-off-track/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 15:40:53 +0000 Rokai http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/15/world-living-beyond-its-resources-summit-off-track/ By Tom Miles GENEVA | Tue May 15, 2012 9:54am EDT GENEVA (Reuters) – Biodiversity has decreased by an average of 28 percent globally since 1970 and the world would have to be 50 percent bigger to have enough land and forests to provide for current levels of consumption and carbon emissions, conservation group WWF [...]

]]> http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/15/world-living-beyond-its-resources-summit-off-track/feed/ 0 http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/14/china-instant-buildings-just-add-labor-fireworks-and-a-cow/ http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/14/china-instant-buildings-just-add-labor-fireworks-and-a-cow/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 15:37:46 +0000 Rokai http://ecofriendlytip.com/2012/05/14/china-instant-buildings-just-add-labor-fireworks-and-a-cow/ By Terril Yue Jones YUEYANG, China | Mon May 14, 2012 8:42am EDT YUEYANG, China (Reuters) – As a crane lowered a steel-and-concrete slab onto support pillars, construction workers swarmed around to bolt it down – a choreography of mad-dash steps against a backdrop of firecrackers, and a sacrificed cow, to herald China’s latest “instant [...]

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