Küre Mountains National Park (L) is on its way to becoming part of a protected European park network, while demonstrators in Ankara (R) were arrested for protesting nuclear power. Photos via Turkish Adventures (L) and Today's Zaman (R).
With summer in full swing in Turkey, the season's regular environmental woes have again come to the fore. Helicopters dropping water have become a common sigh...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photo of solar-powered mototaxi by Universidad Nactional in Lima.
What's worse about the two-stroke engines still common workhorses in motors of all kinds - the pollution or the noise? In Lima, Peru, plagued by air pollution, it's probably the former. An ingenious professor at the University of San Marcos has designed a solar panel retrofit of the two-stroke "mototaxis" that fill the streets of the city which can run on pedal-power or a battery hooked to the solar panels....Read the full story on TreeHugger
Musician and composer Craig Colorusso presents the Sun Boxes, " an environment to enter and exit. It's comprised of twenty speakers operating independently each powered by solar panels. There is a different guitar sample in each box all playing together making the composition. The guitar samples are all of different lengths so the whole piece keeps evolving."...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Video of "flea hop" on Youtube.
We first mentioned the Solar Impulse solar powered plane back in 2005 as the solar plane with plans to circle the globe in 2011. Now they're back in 2009 with a manned solar aircraft that on Thursday at 12:11 EST took its first "flea hop," reports the Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Küre Mountains National Park (L) is on its way to becoming part of a protected European park network, while demonstrators in Ankara (R) were arrested for protesting nuclear power. Photos via Turkish Adventures (L) and Today's Zaman (R).
With summer in full swing in Turkey, the season's regular environmental woes have again come to the fore. Helicopters dropping water have become a common sigh...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photo credit: Tonatiuh Ambrosetti & Daniela Droz.
The ideas for solar power are endless, the results of the workshop "Sunny Memories" prove. Encouraged by the ongoing solar energy revolution, the 
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