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Austin cares about our environment and is one of the greenest cities in the United States as well as being a national leader on the green building scene.
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Austin Solar Sunflower Field at Mueller
A retail lot in Austin, Texas recently sprouted a stunning field of solar sunflowers that soak up the sun’s rays to provide shade while generating a steady stream of renewable energy. Designed by public art team Harries/Heder, the installation consists of 15 flower-like solar photovoltaic panels located on a pedestrian and bike path between the village of Mueller and Austin’s highway I-35. According to the Harries/Heder, the flowers are “an icon for the sustainable, LEED certified Muller Development and highly visible metaphor for the energy conscious City of Austin."
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Austin Home with Solar Photovoltaic Panels in the Mueller Community
Mueller's Green Building Program — one of the most aggressive in the country; incorporates national LEED standards. As a result, Mueller's designs are resource-efficient, use non-toxic and recyclable regional materials and help maintain and improve air and water quality. The program is designed to promote better health, greater comfort and lower utility bills.
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Wind Turbine at LCRA's McKinney Roughs Nature Park
The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), the Texas State Energy Conservation Office (SECO), the Alternative Energy Institute (AEI) at West Texas A&M University, and Meridian Energy Systems collaborated to install a Skystream 3.7 residential-sized wind system at the LCRA’s McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Bastrop, Texas. It is used as an educational teaching aid. The wind turbine: Skystream 3.7 with a 2.4 kilowatt rating mounted on a 75 ft pole with a 12 ft blade span. The turbine begins producing power with 8 mph breezes, has an average power rating of 1.8 kilowatts (kW) and operates most efficiently at wind speeds of 12 mph. Full output is achieved with 20 mph winds
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Solar Photovoltaic Panel at LCRA's McKinney Roughs Nature Park
Primarily used as an educational aid. This 1-kW solar photovoltaic panel when combined with the wind turbine already on site, can offset about 2,500 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of power used each year at the nature park’s administration buildings. That equals a projected offset of about 3,400 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions each year.
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LCRA's Mansfield Dam
Mansfield Dam is one LCRA's six dams. Once the major source of LCRA's electric generation capacity, now provide power at times of peak demand as water levels allow. When fully operational, the dams' generating stations can supply as much as 292 megawatts of green electric power.
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msnbc.com: Environment
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Israel becomes lab for electric car network
Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi has begun rolling out the world's first nationwide electric car network. Now, will the drivers come?
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EPA: Alaska mine could degrade premier salmon runs
Rivers and streams in the world's premier wild salmon fishery would be greatly degraded for decades should a vast mine be built and then see a failure in the dam holding back its mine waste, the U.S. EPA said in a draft report.
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800-year-old cedar tree died death of a thousand cuts
The death of an ancient cedar tree inside a remote park on Canada's Vancouver Island is being showcased by an environmental group seeking more protection against illegal loggers.
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Katrina levees as historic sites?
Sites where levee failures led to the catastrophic flooding after Hurricane Katrina would join a federal list of the nation's historic icons if an activist has her way.
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Summer forecast: hot and dry -- with western wildfires
Reuters: Environment
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Season's first Atlantic tropical storm forms off South Carolina
MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Alberto formed off the South Carolina coast on Saturday, bringing an early start to the Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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Guatemala volcano spits lava and ash
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's Fuego volcano belched burning lava and black ash into the sky early Saturday, leading the government to issue an airplane advisory and close sections of highway.
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EPA report outlines potential Pebble mine risks
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Large stretches of salmon-spawning streams and thousands of acres of wetlands would be wiped out if a large-scale mining project were to be built in southwestern Alaska's copper-rich Bristol Bay region, according to a report issued Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Analysis: New facilities spotlight next-generation biofuels
(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.
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Apple to use only green power for main data center
(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.
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China cries foul after U.S. sets tariffs on solar imports
(Reuters) - The United States imposed punitive tariffs on solar panel imports from China, the latest in a series of trade disputes between the world's two biggest economies and sparking accusations by Beijing of protectionism.