Car maker develops its own flower species

Toyota has created two flower species that absorb nitrogen oxides and take heat out of the atmosphere.

The flowers, derivatives of the cherry sage plant and the gardenia, were specially developed for the grounds of Toyota’s Prius plant in Toyota City, Japan.

The sage derivatives leaves have unique characteristics that absorb harmful gases, while the gardenia’s leaves create water vapour in the air, reducing the surface temperature of the factory surrounds and, therefore, reducing the energy needed for cooling, in turn producing less carbon dioxide (CO2).
The full story by RICHARD BLACKBURN is posted here where interested parties can get the whole picture.



This is a very big shot in the arm for environmentalists. The possibilities for this technology is virtually unlimited. This is the kind of technology that market leaders like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and other industry leaders should be investing a lot of money on.

Considering that greening of rooftops of sky scrappers is the norm these days, these
plants would be the best if not the only option for rooftop gardens. It should even inspire everyone who has not yet started to green their buildings to start now.

With this technology it is possibly to build glass domes virtually anywhere where weather conditions are not very welcoming. You name it, be it Mars, Venus, the Moon or maybe just the Sahara Desert, this is the ultimate solution to our environmental problems.

Now, it is possible that this technology, like many of its kind that has been hidden from public view, has been under development for a long time. It is also possible that its application has already been spread far and wide or perhaps not. What ever the case may be, I believe all responsible entities should embrace this technology and if necessary use genetic engineering to further enhance the seeds so that they can produce plants fast growing and higher quality plants.

This is an ward winning invention that Toyota should be very proud of. It shows that this company is an environmentally conscious and responsible company deserving of emulation by its peers and worthy of respect by all environmental activists everywhere.

Going green should not have to be the preserve of governments and multinational companies only. Those who clamor for change and others who worry or care about the environment have a responsibility to play their part too. Besides trying to get the seeds to these plants and using it in their own backyards, everyone ought to be playing other active roles by using other methods to be part of the green revolution. I have a review of three great energy saving methods here that anyone can use to reduce their dependence on the national power grid, reduce pollution and get the user more bang for their money. Please go there now and become part of the race to reclaim our planet.

Doing All We Can To Salvage Our Environment

Below is part of a story about the environment from LOS ANGELES TIMES where you can get the rest of the scoop.

Environment-oriented people are gathering around Southern California and throughout the state today to press for tough federal legislation and an international treaty to curb global warning.

The participants are part of "an international day of action," with about 4,000 events in 170 countries at places including the Taj Mahal and the Eiffel Tower, according to 350.org, a group started by environmentalist Bill McKibben.

Energy from waste! Drink water from see water! Members of 30 Santa Barbara and Los Angeles-area environmental groups and their supporters will gather at 3 p.m. on the Manhattan Beach Pier for the "Amazing Waving Human Tide Line" to highlight the sea rise expected from climate change. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted last month to endorse the International Day of Climate Action. (Click here to download a description of the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group.)

In Orange County, the Irvine Ranch Outdoor Education Center will feature an International Day of Climate Action Festival from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., highlighted by an aerial photo of attendees gathered to form the number 350 on a field. Other activities will include a nature hike, a 5K walk, tree planting and talks by Orange County environmental and religious leaders. The United Methodist Church in Costa Mesa will host a lecture on "creation care," a movement to protect the Earth from climate-related threats.




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Next Stop: Ultracapacitor Buses

This news item is from the Technology review website. Looks like strides in mass transportation is surging. The rest of the news item can be read a at TR


Municipal transit agencies have tried to reduce the carbon footprint of their bus fleets using a range of options over the years, from biofuels and hydrogen to batteries and hybrid-electric diesel. Now a Chinese company and its U.S. partner say that ultracapacitors could offer the greenest and most economical way of powering inner-city buses.
Fast charger: A bus that runs entirely on ultracapacitors charges up at a bus stop in Shanghai. The buses can only travel three to five miles between charges, but the ultracapacitors allow for fast recharging at designated bus stops.
Credit: Sinautec Automobile Technologies


There's just one catch: the best ultracapacitors can only store about 5 percent of the energy that lithium-ion batteries hold, limiting them to a couple of miles per charge. This makes them ineffective as an energy storage medium for passenger vehicles. But what ultracapacitors lack in range they make up in their ability to rapidly charge and discharge. So in vehicles that have to stop frequently and predictably as part of normal operation, energy storage based exclusively on ultracapacitors begins to make sense.



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Ultracapacitors are definitely not batteries. They are much more enhanced and larger versions of ordinary capacitors. They were most definitely made out of some exotic materials, with a higher number of plates and dielectrics and the plates having a larger surface area. Capacitors are charge storage devices found in virtually all electronic devices. Method of releasing their charge can be regulated by means of variable resistors.

How To Help The Environment Heal Itself.

The most urgent problem facing humanity at this point in time is the environment. Everyone talks about it, but many choose to seat on the fence and do nothing to heal the wounds. Many others go to extremes making it look like earth is a being that needs to be worshipped in order to get everything back to normal.

There are 1001 theories out there about the reason our ozone layer is giving, about how the earth is warming up, about how, come 2012 we are all going to be transformed into god knows what. Many think this is just a cycle, a phase that the earth is going through just like those who inhabit it go through phases in their lives. We are born, we live our miserable lives, die at a certain point and who knows for sure, reborn in another body. Many say the earth is undergoing a process of rebirth. Yet others believe whatever is wrong with the earth is as a result of human overexploitation of her natural resources most of which is used in a way that harms the planet. In other words, we have been burning our candles from both ends.

Outside of all these theories which many cite just so they can have an excuse not to act when they are given the opportunity are some immutable facts:

The planet uses fossil energy on a very massive scale. A primer on world energy systems can be found here: Click Here to learn more.
The source of fossil energy is mostly crude oil which extraction is doing a lot of damage to the planet.
The burning of fossil fuels create certain gases like carbon dioxide that cause global warming that in turn create the green house effect that punctures the ozone layer: More about that can be read here.

A major source of green house gases are the grossly inefficient transportation systems we use to get ourselves from point A to B. The emissions from the tailpipe have been accumulating in the atmosphere over the years and are thought by many to be one of the major culprits.

At the same time this has been happening, common sense applications that could have been made part of our transportation system to at least reduce the magnitude of the problem, or even take control of it were never implemented because of greed.

Some of these applications are now surfacing and one popularly known as water for gas is making a big splash everywhere. Simply it is a way of using HHO gas derived by electrolysis from water to enhance the quality of fossil fuels to make them perform better while producing very close to zero emission. What this does to your car is prolong its life almost indefinitely while drastically saving you on gas - Hmm I wonder if those Cubans know about this, which is probably why they have lots of old model American vehicles on their streets. Anyway the big three are no longer relevant. Their hegemony and rule of terror is over. Now you can have your cake and eat it too.

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