]> http://www.greenedia.com/popular/articles/research-and-studies Research and Studies - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78672?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 So the holidays are over and it's back to the gym and on to the treadmill. But it isn't one of those that we have discussed at TreeHugger that generates power from its machinery, it is a standard electric powered gym machine. Catherine Porter of the ... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:31:33 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78672?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/78635?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Bernard Lunn's analysis of which businesses are viral, and why is a good read. One of the points he makes about communications applications is an especially good one:Only Communication is a sure fire viral success. It only works when it is a genuinel... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:31:30 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/78635?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78687?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Filed under: Washington DC Auto ShowThe 2008 Washington Auto Show starts today and ends January 27th. I am going and I want to know what you want me to report on. Sure, I will ask the exhibitors the tough green questions and try to catch all the gree... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:01:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78687?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78512?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Je ne sais pas -SHE DOESN'T KNOW- D'ou ils viennent- WHERE THEY COME FROM- Je les balaie- SHE SWEEPS- but the next day they are all over her house, Les Moutons- Dust Balls. That 1974 chart-topper from Canada's little sparrow, Nancy White, kept runnin... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:04:39 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78512?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78482?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Filed under: Diesel, Mercedes BenzJust over nine thousand Mercedes-Benz diesels from the 2007 model year have a potentially faulty crankshaft sensor. Mercedes-Benz USA therefore issued a recall of 9,004 vehicles last including E320s, GL320s, R320s a... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:50:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78482?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/78450?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 This post is a divulgation of the TerraChoice study: The Six Sins of GreenwashingTM - A Study of Environmental Claims in North American Consumer Markets.Overview (Adapted from http://www.terrachoice.com/files/6_sins.pdf)The recent surge of envi... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:41:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/78450?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/78494?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Randy Udall and Steve Andrews, ASPO-USA. There's more spin on this report than there is kudzu in Georgia. ...Your authors here, Udall and Andrews, on behalf of ASPO-USA, are willing to wager CERA $10,000 that petroleum liquids capacity won't climb to... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:31:26 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/78494?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/global-warming-accuweather/78336?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Image courtesy of NASA. Last week, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) announced that 2007 tied 1998 for the Earth's second warmest year in a century. If you remember, I recently blogged about NOAA's annual temperature report, which...... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:53:03 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/global-warming-accuweather/78336?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/78321?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 There was what I will call an odd article in the NY Times that was mostly interview with a touch of profile of Tobias Levkovich from Smith Barney.I have tended to be critical of his thought process and his use of what I'll call the compliance crutch ... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:58:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/78321?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78153?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 BP has signed a series of agreements in China involving the strategic integration and commercialization of coal conversion technologies; wind power generation; and world-class acetic acid production. The British Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Gordon Br... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:40:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78153?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78100?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Representative histologicalphotomicrographs. Red staining in sections of the aorta represents lipid and macrophage content, which are part of the atherosclerotic plaque development. Exposure to ultrafine particles shows highest degree of plaques. Cli... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:10:17 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78100?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78088?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Filed under: Emerging Technologies, USASince declaring bankruptcy a couple of years ago, auto parts supplier Delphi has been shuttering or selling facilities all over the country. Now one of those facilities is set for a revival. A former Delphi rese... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:39:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/78088?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/78060?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 This morning we recorded another SquawkBox with Randall Howard, Howard Thaw, Jim Courtney and myself. We talked about Sun's acquisition of MySQL this week for a cool $1 billion. What's Sun's game here? Speculation runs the gamut from building ... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:52:40 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/78060?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/78038?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 The deal to deforest the rainforests on 60,000 hectares of Woodlark Island for massive plantation of oil palm trees appears to be dead:Vitro Plant, developer of a proposed oil palm project on Woodlark Island in Milne Bay, is said to have withdrawn th... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:28:02 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/78038?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77987?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Eat Good Bacteria. Might be the take away message of a recent study published in the journal of Molecular Systems Biology. The scientific team, including Jeremy Nicholson a biochemist at Imperial College London, found that even a small amount of 'goo... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:54:43 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77987?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/global-warming-accuweather/77931?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Older, multi-year sea ice in the Arctic is giving way to younger, thinner ice which is much more susceptible to record summer sea-ice lows like the one that occurred in 2007, according to a new study from the University...... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:16:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/global-warming-accuweather/77931?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/r-squared-energy-blog/77893?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 The API has released their year end report on consumption, and some of the results were quite interesting. They held a blogger call today to discuss the results, but I got tied up and couldn't make...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:31:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/r-squared-energy-blog/77893?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77845?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Last week we highlighted here the New York Times' comparison of CFLs and consumers' feelings, and some treehuggers opined that adapting to change just takes time, and the right bulb! But the damning statistic in this WSJ commentary - that just 5 % of... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:30:59 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77845?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/77917?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Release, Cambridge Energy Research Associates. Some of the more gloomy, pessimistic 'peak oil' views about the future of oil supplies result from an assumption of high decline rates. This new analysis provides the basis for more confidence about the... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:32:47 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/77917?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/77760?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 The Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences announced the formation of the Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC), a multimillion-dollar research consortium dedicated to the development of micro and n... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:54:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/77760?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77696?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Filed under: Emerging Technologies, LotusLotus Engineering has at one time or another worked with many of the major auto manufacturers in the world to develop their vehicles. The company is generally highly secretive about the work they do because th... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:11:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77696?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77653?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Filed under: Diesel, Etc., Green Culture, Green Daily, European UnionYes, we know that Ecologistas en Acci n (EeA), a Spanish environmentalist group hasn't discovered the wheel, but has decided to publish a long report (40 pages in pdf format, in Sp... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:07:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77653?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77598?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 You've read about the brilliant success of the V lib' in Paris--the free bike system that enables pedestrians to pick up a bike in one place, drive it, and leave it at another station, all for little or no money. Barcelona is also having a love aff... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:17:56 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77598?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/77377?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 We recorded another in the ongoing Squawk Box podcast this morning. On the call were Randall Howard, Howard Thaw, Martyn Davies, Jim Courtney and myself. We discussed:The rumored acquisition of Plaxo by Facebook, and who other potential acquirers... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:36:30 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/77377?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/77307?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Andrew Burger posted two excellent articles on 3P here and here regarding the general state of research, science, and the modeling of climate change. I refer you to those article for a good foundation. There are also a variety of excellent resour... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:42:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/77307?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77283?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Filed under: Etc., Transportation AlternativesWho says taking the train is boring? January 12th was no pants day on the public transit system. It's a prank started by Charlie Todd's Improv Everywhere. There really isn't a point to it and it's not a... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:19:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77283?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/77255?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 By David RobertsDuck! An official report from People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), submitted nine months after a Virginia government agency's deadline, shows that the animal rights group put to death more than 97 percent of the dogs, ... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:06:18 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/77255?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/77231?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 The European Commission recently presented its 'Lead Market Initiative for Europe' which is aimed at fostering the emergence of lead markets with high economic and societal value. On the basis of intense stakeholder consultations, six markets have be... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:25:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/77231?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/77176?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Anti-biofuels groups often try to narrow the debate about bioenergy by pointing to regions where its production presents a risk of deforestation and biodiversity loss. This way, they have succeeded in presenting a false and static image of a much lar... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:07:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/77176?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77199?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Filed under: Diesel, Volvo, European UnionAs they announced a few months ago, the two-liter turbodiesel versions of the Volvo C30, S40 and V50 are now available with a new dual-clutch automatic transmission called Powershift. It's got six forward gea... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:04:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77199?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ecogeek/77195?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 The French rail system (SNCF) has added a calculator for travel carbon emissions, offering up the ability to compare prices and carbon loads for travel by rail, air, or personal vehicle. L'Ecocomparateur enables one to know how long the trip will... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:57:02 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ecogeek/77195?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/77149?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 This morning's Squawk Box podcast features Andy Abramson, Howard Thaw, and Randall Howard. We discussed topics ranging from Google's release of their iPhone browser stats, to the rumours that Telus will abandon CDMA, and a report from Hong Kong thi... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:55:07 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/77149?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77187?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 What surprised me about this book was not its rich photographic element, I was already familiar with the stunning landscape and wildlife imagery by Ansel Adams Award-winning photojournalist, Gary Braasch. No. What caught me more off balance was the d... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:35:30 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77187?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/77164?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Last week we had a pretty big snow storm (the picture is from a storm from a couple of years ago taken from inside our dog pen with the woodshed on the right). Yesterday we took the dogs on a pretty lengthy hike but there was still a lot of snow on t... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:26:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/77164?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/77134?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Financial Express. A study by the research firm CSM Worldwide concludes that sales of Tata Motors' low-priced vehicle, the Nano (earlier post) will make the company India's largest light vehicle manufacturer by 2013.Tata Motors would roll out nearl... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:49:29 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/77134?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/global-warming-accuweather/77085?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 A study just released Sunday suggests that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is shrinking at a rate that increased dramatically from 1996 to 2006. The research project, led by Dr. Eric Rignot of the Radar Science and Engineering section at NASA's...... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:05:51 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/global-warming-accuweather/77085?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77128?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Filed under: Etc., Green Daily, European UnionSCNF, the public French railways company, has - no surprise - a website dedicated to travel. The interesting feature on this website is that it calculates how much CO2 your trip produces depending on the ... Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:22:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77128?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77069?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Filed under: Diesel, Mercedes Benz, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Detroit Auto Show, Green DailyMercedes has built the world's most expensive shopping cart. The Mercedes Benz Vision GLK Freeside, revealed today at the Detroit Auto Show, is a clean diesel ... Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:16:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77069?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ecogeek/77065?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 The Coskata process that GM is promoting can use a wide range of different feedstocks to produce ethanol. Materials ranging from agricultural waste to purpose grown crops that can be raised on marginal lands (switchgrass being... Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:41:41 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ecogeek/77065?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/earth-blog/77060?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 New research indicates annual loss from the Antarctic ice sheet has surged [ark moreark] by 75 percent in a decade as a result of global warming. The study by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory appears in the Journal Nature Geoscience and is descri... Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:10:42 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/earth-blog/77060?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/77018?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 The University of S o Paulo's (USP) Cenbio (National Center for Biomass Technologies) of the Electrotechnical Institute of Energy (IEE), has joined an EU-led international project aimed at researching and stimulating the use of ethanol in public tra... Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:10:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/77018?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-blog/76910?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Results from the five-year study highlights the prairie grass' potential as a biomass fuel source that yields significantly more energy than is consumed in production and conversion into cellulosic ethanol, said Ken Vogel, a U.S. Department of Agricu... Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:27:21 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-blog/76910?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/76858?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 By Joseph RommI'm not normally given to shameless name-dropping, but what else are blogs really for (other than making bets with readers)? Over the last three days I attended a small climate solutions summit hosted by the former vice president an... Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:50:45 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/76858?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/76863?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 We've received quite a few reactions to our translation of a reportage on a study which shows biogas can replace all EU natural gas imports by 2020. Other media outlets, blogs and content networking tools have picked up on the story. But apparently t... Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:13:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/76863?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/76819?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 OK, I blew it. My obesity post this morning was a throw away. I typed it quickly this morning with no thought. Why no thought you ask? After all, my posts are always well-thought examples of a keen mind at work--stop laughing John. I'm brai... Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:06:24 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/76819?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/76821?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Taipei Times. The government of Taiwan is funding studies on two species of algae for their suitability as raw materials for ethanol. The two chosen subjects for the experiments are gracilaria and sargassum, [Council of Agriculture (COA)] said, addin... Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:36:08 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/76821?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/76820?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 The FSP needs to remind herself that her academic job isn't so bad by looking back at her top 10 worst jobs. Some of them look very bad and are worth reading for the humor. But, in my experience, some of these jobs aren't so bad. At #10 is Library W... Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:14:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/76820?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/california-energy-blog/76788?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Finally something the left and right can agree on! The California Energy Commission's proposal to use radio controlled thermostats to reguate the termperature in your house amounts to nanny state regulations on steroids.Whether you are a card carry... Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:28:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/california-energy-blog/76788?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/76790?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Energy now lost as heat during the production of electricity could be harnessed through the use of silicon nanowires synthesized via a technique developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory... Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:29:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/biopact-blog/76790?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/76778?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63 Whenver I hear a call for a government program calling for a regulatory solution to the 'obesity epidemic,' my inner economist asks Why? Where is the market failure? The traditional answer has always been something like this: Obesity leads to... Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:14:14 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/76778?rsstype=populararticles&cid=63