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>HUD secretary Shaun Donovan announces competition for Sandy rebuilding: "On Thursday, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary Shaun Donovan launched Rebuild by Design, a multistage competition meant to generate designs that increase resiliency in vulnerable coastal communities."
>President Obama lays out broad plan to address climate change in address at Georgetown University.
>Empire State Building's energy savings beat forecast: "The upgrades, which included installing new lighting and windows, modernizing boilers, and insulating radiators, earned the building LEED Gold certification in 2011. Once the building is fully retrofitted, which will happen within four years, the upgrades are expected to save $4.4 million annually in energy costs, or about 38% of the building's current bill."
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>Solar-powered boat harnessed for climate research: "In some ways the boat is suited to research. Being completely powered by the sun — the high-efficiency solar cells charge the batteries that power electric motors connected to the craft’s twin propellers — it produces no emissions of carbon dioxide or other gases that could contaminate air samples. And the boat has no problem going slowly, if necessary, as it samples the water — average speed is a sluggish five knots."
>MIT creates ‘plug-and-play’ CO2 scrubber for existing power plants: "As with the conventional thermal-amine scrubber systems, this technology should be capable of removing 90 percent of CO2 from a plant’s emissions, the researchers say. But while the conventional CO2 capture process uses about 40 percent of a plant’s power output, the new system would consume only about 25 percent of the power."
>This climate fix might be decades ahead of its time: "If you looked at knowledge as a commodity, we had generated this enormous amount of knowledge and we hadn't even begun to think of the many ways we could apply it," Eisenberger says. He decided he'd settle on a problem he wanted to solve and then dive into the pool of knowledge for existing technologies that could help him."
>MillerCoors brewery now recycles all waste.