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Google and NASA Team Up for a Green Flight Challenge with $1.65M Prize

5:32 pm in airplanes, Cars & Transportation, contests, google, nasa by TreeHugger

google-green-flight-challenge.jpg Photo: Mary Paulose under a Creative Commons license. Air travel may be time efficient, but based on planes' carbon emissions, it's not good for the environment. And while purchasing carbon offsets is a good move, it's just a drop in the bucket. Tha's why Google has teamed up with aircraft technology research group the Read the full story on TreeHugger

Google Foundation Says Clean Energy Innovation Could Have Huge Payoff

4:31 pm in alternative energy, google, News by TreeHugger

google-clean-energy-innovation-site.jpg Image: Screen grab of Google website Google Crunches the Numbers on Energy Google is a company that tends to put its moneyRead the full story on TreeHugger

Google Earth Reveals How Predator-Prey Behavior In Coral Reefs Can Be Seen From Space

11:28 am in coral reefs, google, oceans, Science & Technology, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

coral patches photo You can see the light blue halos where seaweed has been grazed around the coral patches in the Red Sea. Image downloaded from Google Earth Pro 7 June 2011. Image date 19 Dec. 2010. Image copyright 2011 GeoEye. The image you see above was taken with the GeoEye satellite and reveals marine animal behavior that would otherwise be difficult for scientists to witness. But in a paper published by Scientific Reports, researchers were able to witness how marine animals and their predators interact by studying the feeding patterns of herbivores. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Google Maps Now Offers Real-Time Transit Updates

3:46 pm in Cars & Transportation, google, public transportation, Science & Technology, transportation by TreeHugger

google maps live transit photo Photo: Google Only Available in Some Cities for Now... But More to Come Google's been keeping busy lately, keeping many irons in the fire. I just wrote about their $280M investment in residential solar, but they're also trying to make mass transit more convenient by using live transit data from various cities around the world (right now only Boston, Portland, Ore., San Diego, San Francisco, Madrid and Turin, but that list will grow) to let commuters know - via Google Maps on d...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Google Invests $280M in Residential Solar Power!

2:40 pm in alternative energy, Design & Architecture, google, News, solar power by TreeHugger

solarcity google solar power photo Photo: Google In Partnership with SolarCity, They Want to Put Solar Panels on Your Roof Google has just announced its biggest clean energy investment yet, a $280M fund to finance residential solar panel installations across the US. They are partnering with SolarCity (Tesla 's CEO Elon Musk is their chairman and an early investor), a "provider of solar energy system design, financing, installation and related services" (by leas...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Google Earth, Columbia University Reveal World’s Most Comprehensive Seafloor Map (Video)

10:42 am in google, maps, oceans, Science & Technology by TreeHugger

google seafloor image Image via Google Earth Google and Columbia University wanted to celebrate World Oceans Day in style yesterday, so they revealed what is the largest map of Earth's seafloor to date. While the collaboration more than doubled what's available and mapped an area larger than North America, the team admits that only about 5% of the ocean's floor has been mapped so far. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Google Invests $55 Million in California’s Massive 1,550MW Alta Wind Farm

3:01 pm in alternative energy, google, News, wind power by TreeHugger

google alta wind farm construction photo Photo & Logo: Google Feeling Lucky? Your Searches Help Pay for This Google's not stopping its massive clean energy investments. After $168M in solar thermal and $100M in wind power, they're investing in... more wind power! They're providing $55 million to finance the 102 MW Alta IV project, part of the massive 1,550MW Alt...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Google Earth Animation Reveals Sumatran Tiger Habitat Slated for Logging (Video)

11:31 am in animals, Business & Politics, conservation, google, Science & Technology, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

wwf video image Image via YouTube video screengrab Last week we brought you video from WWF of some incredibly cute, and unfortunately endangered tiger cubs playing in the forest of Bukit Tigapuluh, or "Thirty Hills," which is under pressure from paper and timber companies. This is a rare place where endangered Sumatran tigers, elephants, rhinos, and orangutans all live in the same ecosystem, and while some is marked as national park, other areas of the landscape have permits pending for deforestation by large logging ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Hands-on With Google’s Android Open Accessory Development Kit

2:04 pm in electronics, energy efficiency, gadgets, google, Science & Technology by TreeHugger

via internet science tech Google has been hatching a new project that connects household accessories such as lightbulbs to the Android platform, which makes it easier for homeowners to keep tabs on their energy consumption and control their home from afar. Google has picked Arduino for its Open Accessories "kit", which will help developers start building new hardware accessories that can work on Android-powered devices. Read the full story on TreeHugger