Your Daily Greens – Green Tweets, Kenetic Road Plates and Our Green Heritage

Daily happenings around the GreenSphere (People, Companies & Communities):

Green Tweets: Yesterday, Mashable published an exciting new post featuring a who’s who list of 75 Environmentalists to Follow on Twitter. A great list for sure albeit missing a few notables (@ecopond *cough, cough*). The list is broken up into two categories, people and organizations/publications.

The Heritage Foundation: Twilight Earth has posted a completely laughable video from the The Heritage Foundation, an anti-environmental advocacy group. Their claims? Water is the most abundant substance on Earth so we can’t run out. We have so much food that we can grow corn and burn it for biofuel and the United States is the Saudi Arabia of coal. Looks like they are living in a dream world.

School of Sustainability: Chatham University has announced the creation of its School of Sustainability and the Environment. The institution will provide undergraduate, graduate and professional programs to prepare students to identify and solve challenges related to the environment and sustainability. The first program offered through the new school will be a Master of Arts program in Food Studies. The degree is designed to provide students with knowledge on issues surrounding food such as the environmental costs, distribution, cultural issues, sustainability of communities, and safety of the food supply.

Kenetic Road Plates: Sainsbury’s will cut the ribbon this week on a new “people-powered” kinetic energy system which could soon be rolled out at stores across the UK. Kinetic Road Plates will harness enough energy from vehicles driving in and out of the store’s car park (30 kW of green energy an hour) to power all the store’s check outs.

The Waterpod: Inhabitat has interviewed sustainability advisor Lonny Grafman about the Waterpod, an incredible self-reliant eco-habitat, exhibition, and living space in New York. The Waterpod has officially launched and it will now dock for public viewing at various locations in Manhattan’s five boroughs. Check out the interview for the deets.

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