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Richard Branson Aims to Rock the Boat for Green Shipping
China Developing “Combustible Ice” as New Energy Source
The Wood-Eating Gribble May Hold the Key to Biofuel Production
Nokia Files Patent for Kinetically Charged Cell Phone
Consumers offered more options for energy bills
Sweden Aims for 2000 New Wind Turbines, 50% Renewable Energy by 2020
80s Wind Chapter Complete
Solar Flower Petal Street Lamps Bloom by Day, Illuminate the Night
America's First Wave Power Farm Coming to Oregon Coast
GE Hitachi Plans to Turn Nuclear Waste into Fuel
EMPOWER: The Energy Generating Rocking Chair
Awesome Twitter Exchange on the Politics of Clean Energy
Eco-home funding announced for towns
IllumiCharger Adds Solar USB Charging to Any Wall
Sydney Theatre to Install the Largest Photovoltaic System in Australia
Corky Mouse Generates Kinetic Energy With Every Click
Eco-home funding announced for towns
Honda announces solar fuel station prototype
AIRCRUISE: A Fuel Cell Powered Zero Emissions Luxury Airship
Energy Generating Soccer Ball Brings Clean Power to Off-Grid Areas
1977 Ad: “Exxon believes solar energy's future is bright.”
'Green Banks' Still Bankrolling Dirty Investments
Samsung and Ontario to Announce Solar and Wind Deal
Carbon Trust launches energy advice guide
Norwegan Turbine City Could Be The Next Big Eco-Tourist Attraction
What History Can Bring to (Green) Technology
Jump Rope Transforms Kinetic Energy into Light
Cold snap encourages energy saving
Britain Unveils Plans for 1,300 Square Miles of Wind Turbines
Stunning Solar Roof Rises Over Perugia, Italy
Ford Introduces Next-Gen Focus, Confirms Plans for Electric Car
Renewable Energy Company Creating The Biggest Green Party You've Ever Seen
Twirling Battery Provides Instant Energy for a Dead Cellphone
Government's boiler scrappage scheme begins
A Pilgrimage to the Solar Electric Generating Stations
TOP 5 GREEN ENERGY STORIES OF 2009
Avis promotes new green transport options
COP15 Technology Update: A Rally for Home Energy Information
John Lewis unveils green transport scheme
VW unveils new eco-friendly model
Copenhagen Gets Down to Business
A Dozen Tips for the Total Greening of Your Business
Solar Industry CEO Roundtable
The Energy Innovators Google Is Listening To
Power, Nuclear Power, and White Males
Green gas now available to homeowners
Algae Could Be the Key to Ultra-Thin Biodegradable Batteries
UK Climate Science Statement
Green transport scheme is 'a success'
Power Your Music Player With Your Running Pants
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Nike's Sustainability Journey: 15 Years and Going Strong When Nike first began incorporating sustainability into its business practices, the risks and opportunities we grappled with seemed distant  indeed, even non-existent to most businesses. Fifteen years later, the risks and opportunities that businesses face from environmental and social challenges are more obvious than ever...
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Richard Branson Aims to Rock the Boat for Green Shipping The billionaire's new NGO, Carbon War Room, puts the global shipping industry's massive carbon footprint under the spotlight, and spread the word about simple ways to shrink its impact...
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Big Oil's Slow Road to Sustainability Last week, we released the sustainability rankings of the world's largest oil and gas companies. Despite the skepticism of whether the industry can ever be green, there are plenty of reasons to rank their sustainability efforts...
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How to Embed Sustainability Into Your Company's DNA "The 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability" makes the business case for why companies should be rethinking their corporate structures, processes and performance, while also offering advice and case studies of how companies are putting these practices to work...
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Zero Net Energy Live/Work Showcase Opens Doors to Public A LEED-Platinum rated zero net energy live/work unit opens its doors to the public today before a deal closes to buy the unique property near the Oakland Estuary.  ..
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Samsung and Ontario to Announce Solar and Wind Deal Samsung and Ontario to Announce Solar and Wind Deal The Premier of Ontario is set to announce a multibillion dollar deal to a consortium led by Samsung Group to build renewable energy equipment including wind turbines and solar photovoltaic panels. The deal, which could be worth up to C$7 billion, will be unveiled on Thursday January [...]..
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DIY Solar Water Heater DIY Solar Water Heater DIY solar projects including solar ovens, solar pool heaters, solar PV panels, solar air heaters and batch solar water heaters are fairly simple projects to complete on your own. We recently came across another solar water heater, non-batch, that we like. This project is a bit more involved and will require caution [...]..
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Grow Fresh Air with Houseplants Grow Your Fresh Air With Houseplants As we made are homes and workplaces more energy efficient and air tight, the quality of indoor air greatly decreased. Use these houseplants to remove indoor air toxins. Plants are ordered by their ability to remove chemical toxins, how easy they are to grow and their resistance to pests. Areca Palm [...]..
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Copenhagen is Over, Now What Copenhagen is Over, Now What “If (former Vice President) Dick Cheney can argue that even a 1 percent chance of a terrorist attack is 100 percent justification for preemptive action, then surely, when scientists tell us that climate change is nearly a 100 percent certainty, we ought to be able to stand together…and join in an [...]..
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OPA Issues 700 MicroFit Contracts for Solar Rooftops OPA Issues 700 MicroFit Contracts for Solar Rooftops The Ontario Power Authority issued 700 contracts today (Dec 16) for MicroFit Solar PV systems. These solar installations will be paid 80.2 cents per kilowatt hour (kWH) for the next 20 years, for every kWh of power produced. The OPA started to accept contract applications on October 1st 2009. [...]..
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NSI Energy and Environment Expert to Offer Expertise at Summit Kevin Matthews will present session for National Brownfield Association in Atlanta. (PRWeb Mar 12, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/NSI_summit/Kevin_Matthews/prweb3716134.htm..
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Mannvit Engineering Joins CanGEA and is Registered as "Qualified Person" under the Canadian Geothermal Code for Public Reporting Mannvit Engineering ("Mannvit") recently joined the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association ("CanGEA") and is registered as "Qualified Person", under the Canadian Geothermal Code for Public Reporting (the "Code"). (PRWeb Mar 12, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/03/prweb3711654.htm..
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Arosa Solar Power Company 'Energizes' New Jersey Classroom Arosa Solar points schoolchildren to the right path and future for New Jersey solar energy. (PRWeb Mar 11, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/nj/solar/prweb3714714.htm..
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Raytheon Awards Cicoil Supplier Excellence Award Cicoil receives Raytheon’s prestigious 4-Star Supplier Excellence Award at a recent ceremony held at Gillette Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts. Cicoil was recognized for its 100% quality score and 100% on-time delivery performance in 2009. Cicoil high-performance cable assemblies are utilized in many of Raytheon’s advanced missile systems, including AIM-9X Sidewinder, RAM Missile, EKV, and Patriot Missile systems. (PRWeb Mar 11, 201..
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Three New Nuclear Stocks Added; Two Stocks Deleted from WNA Nuclear Energy Index in Quarterly Rebalancing The WNA Nuclear Energy Index℠ (TICKER: WNAI) will add three new constituents, effective 6:00 PM (EDT) Sunday, March 21, 2010. Two stocks will be deleted from the index, changing the number of index components to 65. The changes result from the quarterly rebalancing of the index. (PRWeb Mar 11, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/WNA/Nuclear_Energy_Index/prweb3713324.htm..
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Retrofitting of eco products is a 'good idea' A green housing initiative has praised the government's plans to retrofit homes with energy efficient products. ..
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Retrofitting of eco products is a 'good idea' A green housing initiative has praised the government's plans to retrofit homes with energy efficient products. ..
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Defra to tackle air pollution Defra has issued a report detailing the further action needed to help the UK to prevent air pollution and climate change. ..
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Industrial sites suggested for onshore wind projects An energy investor has suggested building onshore wind projects in industrial centre, in a bid to avoid aesthetic planning difficulties. ..
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Defra to tackle air pollution Defra has issued a report detailing the further action needed to help the UK to prevent air pollution and climate change. ..
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Concentrated solar power isn't just for deserts, it could be for walls too Usually when you read about concentrated solar power, it's referring to some large project destined for the Mojave Desert, but Syracuse's Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (SyracuseCoE) has set out to prove that this technology can be used in smaller, colder settings. SyracuseCoE in Syracuse, NY is itself a LEED-platinum-certified, 55,000 square-foot building that serves as a testing ground for renewable energy and efficien..
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Texas wind is more than grid can handle While the focus continues to be on expanding means and methods for generating electricity from renewable sources, the limits of the existing grid to handle that generated power and distribute it to where it is needed are beginning to show. Last weekend in Texas, wind power reached a record high point of 6,242 MW represented 22% of demand. That's fantastic news, and we love to see that kind of records being broken. However, utility officials we..
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Pickens revises his plan, gives up on wind? In case you thought that after all the setbacks, T. Boone Pickens was giving up, he's reminding us that he's still around and he still has a plan (albeit a different one) to free America of its dependence on oil. In a recent interview with the Houston Chronicle, Pickens outlined revisions to his original plan that was big on wind power and natural gas-powered cars.  To sum it up in five words:  less wind, more natural gas.  Here are his main poin..
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Google develops new solar thermal mirror prototype Google announced last year that they were working on new technology that would make solar thermal energy cheaper than coal.  Just a few months later, they have a prototype and expect a product to be ready in as little as a year. Google's energy czar, Bill Weihl, said the company is focusing on redesigning the mirrors, using alternative materials on the reflective surface and the substrate on which the mirror is mounted.  The new technology could ..
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Texas utility leasing rooftop solar systems TXU Energy, a large Texas utility company, will lease rooftop solar power systems to their customers in the Dallas area. Homeowners can sign up for the program with TXU and their partner in the project, SolarCity, will design and install the systems.  After tax incentives, an owner of a three-to-four bedroom house would owe about $35 a month for a lease, though for $26,000 they could buy the array outright.  When leased, SolarCity continues to ow..
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World’s Largest Wind Turbine To Float Off Norway We’ve seen mega-turbines before — but never one with an output of 10MW, and certainly not one that floats! When completed, the world’s largest turbine will stand at roughly 533 feet with a rotor diameter of 475 feet. At three times more powerful than current turbines, it will be able to power over 2,000 homes. From [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "World’s Largest Wind Turbine To Float Off Norway", url: "http://www.groovy..
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Renewable Energy Company Creating The Biggest Green Party You’ve Ever Seen We love raucous festivals like Burning Man and music jamborees like Bonaroo, but we’ve never heard of one that combines the spirit of these events with the mission to actually accomplish something. Like building a build a micro wind turbine farm. Such is the idea behind “Villages in the Sky: DIY World [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Renewable Energy Company Creating The Biggest Green Party You’ve Ever Seen", url: "http://..
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Buying An Electric Car? You Might Want To Order Your Charging Station Now. 2010 will most likely go down as the year electric cars were (once again) made available to the public through Big Auto. Both Nissan and Chevy have plans to release the Leaf and Volt respectively — and both focus on getting energy from being plugged in. (Although the Volt can charge its battery utilizing its [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Buying An Electric Car You Might Want To Order Your Charging Station Now.", url: "http://www.groovy..
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Dell Creates Solar-Powered Parking Lot For Future Plug-in Vehicles Dell has just put the finishing touches on its latest green addition to the company’s corporate headquarters in Round Rock, Texas. Called a “solar grove”, the solar-powered parking lot not only produced carbon-free energy for the building, but is also ready to power plug-in vehicles — should any Dell employee currently be lucky enough to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Dell Creates Solar-Powered Parking Lot For Future P..
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Solar Shingles From Dow Promise Lower Costs, Easy Installation In what’s sure to give inane homeowner’s associations across suburbia hope, Dow Chemical on Monday announced a massive push into the solar shingle business – with a roll-out of their new integrated solar cells expected around 2011. Jetson Green delves into the benefits saying, “The POWERHOUSE Solar Shingle is made with CIGS photovoltaic cells in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Solar Shingles From Dow Promise Lower Costs..
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MEXICO: Scientists Reinvent the Corn Tortilla MEXICO CITY, Mar 7 (Tierramérica) - The process of making corn tortillas - the filling, age-old traditional food throughout much of Mexico and Central America - pollutes huge volumes of water and consumes a great deal of energy...
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ENERGY: Coal-Fired Power on the Way Out? WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (IPS) - The past two years have witnessed the emergence of a powerful movement opposing the construction of new coal-fired power plants in the United States...
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ARGENTINA-UK: Oil Plans Spark Tension Over Malvinas/Falklands BUENOS AIRES, Feb 18 (IPS) - The imminent arrival of a British oil exploration rig in the South Atlantic ocean has recharged tensions between Argentina and Britain over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands. ..
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U.S.: Nuke Plants Back in Vogue, as Climate Bill Stalls WASHINGTON, Feb 16 (IPS) - After decades of debate, the United States is poised to build its first new nuclear reactors since the early 1970s...
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CLIMATE CHANGE: U.N. to Mobilise Funds for Developing Nations UNITED NATIONS, Feb 15 (IPS) - After countries failed to reach a binding agreement on greenhouse gas emissions at the crucial Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last December, the United Nations moving forward to enforce a pledge to help developing countries cope with the worst impacts...
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£30 Billion High-Speed Rail Plans for UK Unveiled It seems nothing can stop the worldwide domination of high-speed rail. In the US, plans for networks in Florida and California are moving forward, China's high-speed rail service has been hailed as a complete success, and more and more countries in Europe are embracing the technology. And now the UK has joined them.....
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China Developing “Combustible Ice” as New Energy Source Last September, China discovered a large reserve of “combustible ice” on the tundra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. “Combustible ice” is essentially frozen natural gas – a natural gas hydrate, and is one of the newest energy sources to be discovered. The new reserves found in China reveal a very large supply equal at least 35 [...]..
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Colorado to Be #2 in Renewable Energy Standards by 2020 On Monday a bill was dropped on Colorado Governor Bill Ritter’s desk that ups the states renewable energy standard to over 30% by 2020. The bill was passed by the state legislature and will place Colorado in the number two spot in the country — behind California — in renewable energy mandates. If signed by [...]..
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Solar Surge iPod and iPhone Cases Are Now Available! Just in time for sunny spring days, Novothink has announced that its hotly anticipated Solar Surge iPod and iPhone cases have hit the market and are available for sale! We’ve followed these sleek solar cases all the way from their concept renderings, and we’re excited to say that the potent photovoltaic chargers look even better [...]..
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Start-Up Makes Solar Cells Cheap Enough to Compete with Fossil Fuels The most efficient solar tech on the market today is the silicon solar cell. There’s just one drawback–implementing the tech costs up to $4 per watt, almost four times the cost of fossil fuel-derived electricity. Luckily, an innovative new production process could completely revolutionize the solar industry. 1366 Technologies says it can reduce silicon cell [...]..
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The Underground Infrastructure of Wind Power Wind comes and wind goes. It’s feral power, part of a much larger natural system that humans are just figuring out how to domesticate. Coal, on the other hand, is a burnable rock. Like most rocks, these “solidified sunbeams” just sit there until you do something with them. They are their own storage. Gregor Macdonald has [...]..
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How the Wind Blows I’ve been obsessed with what Molly Wright Steenson calls “air and its realities.” Not just air as the stuff you breathe, but air as a substance, as a carrier of power.  We should understand how this works. Who hasn’t stuck their hand out of a car window and marveled at the changes in the force [...]..
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A Key Thought on Credibility in Science and Technology In a controversial piece on nuclear power a few months ago, I pointed out that people’s views about nuclear power are embedded in their broader attitudes about science and equity and the trustworthiness of experts. Turns out, much the same is true of climate science. How people feel about the trustworthiness of a technical analysis [...]..
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80s Wind Chapter Complete After an exhausting weekend, I finished up my chapter on wind during the 1980s and 1990s. That marks the last wholly historical chapter as I move into the final phase of more forward-looking pieces. ..
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Wind Farm Cost Reductions Since the Mid-1990s You know that one of my favorite sports is bagging on forecasts of all types, so when I come across one that’s pretty decent, I think it’s worth highlighting. Here, we see that the Department of Energy’s 1996 forecast (drawn from here) does pretty well. They overprojected the price declines up until 2000, but as [...]..
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Don't play around with the environment! ..
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Bloomenergy! A Clean, Reliable and Affordable fuel cell based Energy Server™ … Anywhere ! ..
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Pedalling uphill - energy saving measures ..
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Saving money on lighting with power quality analyzer ..
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Take care of your energy consumption, as it really pays ! ..
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