Green Options

Obama was elected as the first anti-war president since Dwight D. Eisenhower promised to end the Korean Conflict. War is big money to the US, and this country is the world’s top military spender! As Deepak Chopra wisely said, “Unless it can make as much money as war, peace doesn’t stand a chance.”

An Australian scientist has developed a new method of manufacturing solar cells using nothing more than some nail polish remover, a pizza oven and a standard inkjet printer.

The iJET technique is so easy and cheap to carry out that it could revolutionize access to solar technology in the developing world.

In a recent radio interview (audio), Nicole Kuepper, a 23 year-old PhD student at the University of New South Wales, explained the process.

Winner of the Innovate or Die Pedal-Powered Machine Contest.

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SolarCooking.org is hardly an eye-catching Website, but it’s one that I’ve found myself returning to again and again over the years just because it’s so full of interesting, informative, eye-opening and, yes, even inspirational information. And judging by the home-page counter, which has tallied 2,280,425 visitors since the site went online in 1996, I’m not the only one who feels that way about it.

As described by SolarCooking.org

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Symi Symposium Closing Ceremony. From left to right: Gerd Leipold, Executive Director of Greenpeace International; Misha Glenny, writer and editor (formerly of the BBC); George Papandreou, president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement and the Socialist International, and former foreign minister of Greece. Photo courtesy of http://www.papandreou.gr

While my title is not exactly accurate, as I’m back home in St. Louis now, I wanted to get in one more post wrapping up my

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