Tag: Green Design
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Residents In Nyabihu, Rwanda Start Harvesting Rainwater
In Rwanda, residents of the Mudende Sector, Nyabihu have started the collection of rainwater in response to water shortages.
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New-Age Cement Made from Recycled Fly Ash
VHSC Cement produces Pozzoslag 1.2 using coal fly ash as a raw material through its patented reactor system, which uses both physical and chemical means to create a new cementitious material. Developed to overcome the early set time issues that have historically hindered the use of higher volumes of fly ash and slag in many…
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Trees Using Water More Efficiently When Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rises
The study, “Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise,” was published on-line today in the journal Nature. Dave Hollinger, a plant physiologist with the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Research Station, is a co-author with lead author Trevor Keenan of Harvard University and colleagues from The Ohio State University, Indiana University, and…
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Guest Post: There’s No Need Spending a Small Monthly Fortune Watering Your Lawn
If you are the kind of person that appreciates a green lawn in the summer, no doubt you have been burned with an outrageous water bill during the dry periods of the year. Water bills can get to be outrageous, as much as $500 per month in hottest periods of the year for an average-sized…