Beer and BBQ Blog – OMG Lets BBQ!

While teams of scientists are in the midst of searching for the best, lowest impact alternative fuel resources, some scientists are just having fun – meaning they are spending their time discovering ways to apply green technology for fun, everyday uses. Researchers Klaus Sedlbauer and Herbert Sinnesbichler from the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics have created the temperature-regulating mug using a phase change material (PCM). PCM is capable of storing and releasing large amounts of h

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New High Tech Mug Keeps Drinks the Perfect Temperature

Well if this isn’t irony I don’t know what is. The City Brewery in La Crosse, Wisconsin has now begun a heat and power project that utilizes methane gas created at the brewery and converts it into clean energy to run nearby Gundersen Lutheran hospital. Methane from the brewery process is captured to run a biogas Jenbacher engine that in turn produces electricity that is then sent back to the grid

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Brewery’s Beer-Making Powers Hospital

Not to be outdone by Chicago , HOK WDC hosted a book-launch party for our own Leigh Stringer and her fabulous book The Green Workplace on Tuesday, October 6. The HOK Advance Strategies, WDC team: Todd Pedersen, Claire Whitehill, LEIGH STRINGER, Daphne Kiplinger, Edmund Velasco, Jodi Williams The event was held on the green roof of 700 Sixth Street , one of DC’s first LEED C&S Platinum buildings (designed by HOK, of course).  The building’s developer, Akridge , gracefully allo

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Going Green in WDC