Normally I don’t post about animals here – or anywhere really. It’s just not an aspect of green living that I focus on. That said, animal rights are very much linked to green living and it’s an important issue. For example going vegetarian is not only kind to animals but makes a large positive impact on the planet and why buy leather or products tested on animals when there are other, greener options?

In any case, I don’t tend to post about animal issues and maybe it’s just the whole Valentine’s Day bug, but when I got a recent email from [...]

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Love Blooms at Farm Sanctuary

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UCLA scientists, led by professor Omar M. Yaghi have created three-dimensional, synthetic DNA-like crystals which are capable of storing carbon dioxide: We have taken organic and inorganic units and combined them into a synthetic crystal which codes information in a DNA-like manner.

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Concentrated photovoltaic systems are usually more effective than regular, flat ones, because a lens focuses the sunlight on a smaller surface of some efficient and more expensive solar cells 500 times stronger than the cells would receive in regular operation. Heat is mostly a problem with concentrated PV systems, since it has to be efficiently dissipated through complex and expensive cooling technique.

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