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Profiles of people who are on the front lines of saving species and ecosystems. |
Snapshots of the next-generation green products and green technologies. |
 Seawater Farms: Bringing Life from Deserts
Seawater farms, an operation founded by U.S. entrepreneur John Sperling, has taken the abundant and heretofore unusable resources of salt water and desert to create a managed plantation that produces, cost-effectively, fish, shrimp, lumber, and a nutritious plant, Salicornia, that thrives in salt water...
Wind, Waves & Tides: Energy from the Oceans
When evaluating totally renewable sources of energy for their economic viability, the energy from ocean waves and tidal streams, along with ocean-based wind energy, beckon as an alternative quietly emerging, especially in Europe, as a replacement to fossil fuels...
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 Vandana Shiva, Fighting for Genetic Diversity
Multinational corporations argue that genetically modified crops, protection of the intellectual property therein, and privatization of water resources and other "commons" are necessary to feed the world's burgeoning population and fund development. Vandana Shiva, a scientist and activist from India, does not entirely agree...
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David Brower's Legacy
The late David Brower, who during his long life successfully campaigned to preserve countless natural wonders, was the creative force behind some of the most powerful environmental organizations in the USA. But David Brower is also remembered as a man who loved people, and enjoyed life to the fullest, and as someone who could broker agreements between bitterly opposed interests...
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Serious Megawatts: Solar Thermal Power
Just as on a small scale, hybrid engines stretch a gallon of gas, in the same manner a hybrid power plant can stretch its own supply of fossil fuel. In India, a huge new power station using hybrid systems is close to completing their financing and breaking ground in the sunny state of Rajasthan....
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The Green Valley
The next generation of products in the world will be green. But what is "green?" Green can mean earth-friendly, green can mean a political movement, but for lack of a better term, green can also be the label given to the most significant economic transformation in the history of humanity; the transition from a civilization that contends with nature in a struggle for survival, to a civilization that nurtures the environment
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Bickford Ranch: Sunny Future of Home Developments?
California's population is increasing by half a million per year, so development is inevitable, and the only a question is where and how to develop. "Bickford Ranch" is a luxurious new community planned in California's Sierra foothills, one that will sprawl across nearly four square miles of grazing land...
John Gavitt: WildAid's Newest Warrior
Six months ago, WildAid added a potent weapon to their arsenal with the hiring of John Gavitt, a 52-year-old Virginian who has devoted his entire career to wildlife law enforcement. EcoWorld caught up with Gavitt for a brief interview after he returned from a trip to Cambodia and Thailand to train wildlife rangers...
Saving the Farm with California FarmLink
EcoWorld Hero Steve Schwartz and California FarmLink work to find solutions on how to save the family farm. And it is more than a sentimental question. It is also a question of preserving cultural identity, preserving open space, and preserving biodiversity...
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First Solar: Production Line PVs
In our continuing search for the company that will provide breakthrough price reductions in photovoltaic cells, EcoWorld has discovered First Solar. If they live up to the rumors about them, First Solar Inc. may become the Ford Motor Company of photovoltaics...
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Ford Delivers Electric Postal Vehicles
Using rough numbers, California possesses about 50,000 megawatts of generating capacity, and over half comes from power plants that aren't turned off at night, but we only use significantly less megawatts at night. What should we do with the extra power?
How about use it to charge up Electric Vehicles
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Atlantis Energy Makes Solar Beautiful
When we think of home power, we think of roofs covered with black rectangular water heating or pv modules, propped up with struts at awkward angles. We think of windmills erupting off someone's front lawn, or diesel generators droning unmuffled through the night. In short, we think, "ugly!"...
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Car of the Future
Would you buy a car that goes 700 miles on a fill-up, and costs only $20 to fill the tank? There are many candidates for next-generation cars: high-tech diesels, hybrids, electric cars, and fuel cell cars. But the most efficient we've seen yet is a prototype being developed by Anuvu Inc.
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Toxins to Topsoil
In 1981 when Jonathan Brewer headed west to seek his fortune in the goldfields of California, you would think he came 132 years too late. Not so. The mining industry procedures Brewer learned have found him fortune in an ironic twist, by inspiring a unique process to extract toxic waste from the earth
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The Race!
In a small lab in sunny Inglewood, California, EcoWorld has discovered Dr. Vijay Kapur, who for 29 years has been at the forefront of research and development of photovoltaics. Formerly Director of Research for Arco Solar, with a PHD in Chemistry, Kapur's current venture...
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Juliette Beck, Global Exchange & The WTO
Global Exchange is headquartered on the third floor of an older building in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District. Since 1988 this non-profit has worked to get their message of economic, social, political and environmental justice out to citizens around the world....
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars
In the western corner of West Sacramento, in a promontory of light industrial buildings that runs along the south frontage of Interstate 80, is the home of the California Fuel Cell Partnership. They are a depot for most of the hydrogen fuel cell powered cars in North America... .
The World Through ESRI's Eyes
ESRI, Environmental Systems Research Institute, is the world's leading manufacturer of mapping software. They manufacture Global Information Systems software used by virtually every major corporation and government organization worldwide. But behind the scenes ESRI quietly gives away its software to organizations that are working to preserve and restore species and ecosystems. .. .
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Dr. Sam Gruber
In spite of sparse funds, Doc Gruber's message is getting out, and the world is awakening to the fact that sharks are more than just killing machines as portrayed in the movies and the media. Lemon sharks migrate across the American shoreline regions of the Atlantic from New Jersey to Montevideo, and from Brazil to Bimini. Dr. Gruber tracks them, tagging them with GIS transmitters and noting where they breed and where they travel. Dr. Gruber frequently swims with the lemon sharks at his research station in Bimini, where sharks breed in the mangrove forested swamps. . .
Fuel Cells
Fuel cells are batteries that can be fueled by gasoline, methane, ethanol, or hydrogen, to name some. Charge producing electrons are chemically extracted from the fuel by the elements inside the fuel cell, which from an electro-chemical standpoint are identical to the elements inside the common battery, a continuous electric current, with energy derived from this fuel input. They last anywhere from one to six years before they wear out or need an overhaul. . .
Green Diesels
Much excitement has been generated by the latest generation of Hybrid cars. The Toyota Prius, for example, is a hybrid four-seater that gets 50 MPG and costs only $20,450. We've been waiting for hybrids for a long time, and the Prius, with that kind of cost-performance, is a car to be taken seriously. The green generation of automobiles has arrived, and within 20 years, if not much sooner, cars that aren't green will be collector's items. . .
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Peter Knights & WildAid
Knights and his colleagues travel the world identifying local police and rangers who are attempting to stop the poachers. He then uses WildAid funds to equip and train the rangers. The work doesn't stop once a check is written, WildAid also places experts in wildlife security with these anti-poaching groups, who then train them in effective tactics, including non-lethal forms of apprehension. Recently, for example, WildAid co-director Suwanna Gauntlett sent John Gavitt, who had been the Chief Ranger for the Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska, to Cambodia on an assignment to train anti-poaching rangers in that country. . .
Randy Hayes & The Rainforest Action Network
The Rainforest Action Network is known for direct action crusades to save trees. They have succeeded in convincing many corporations, Burger King and Home Depot among them, to adopt forest friendly corporate policies. . .
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