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The Elithis Tower, designed and constructed as the world's most environmentally sound building, has just been unveiled in Dijon, France. Touted as the first positive energy office structure, the tower creates more power than it uses. From design to material and user behavior, the Elithis Tower appli...
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Last week, we ran our latest Mileage Challenge featuring four ultra-fuel-efficient cars, and before that we rounded up six fuel-sippers to see which one was the best daily driver. But none of these reports ...
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will announce Fisker Automotive will build plug-in hybrid electric vehicles at a former General Motors plant near Wilmington, Del.
Green Progress You can find an event near you at 350.org
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350.org is an global grassroots campaign to stop the climate crisis, building from an International Day of Climate Action on October 24 to the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December of 2009.
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A new report from the New Rules Project finds that over 60% of all U.S. states have the renewable energy resources to be “energy self-reliant.” (“Energy self-reliance,” as defined in the report, is a measure of how self-sufficient in energy generation a state could be if it relied entirely on its ow...
Green Progress A New Recycling Strategy Is Catching On
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An antigarbage strategy known as "zero waste" is moving from the fringes to the mainstream, taking hold in school cafeterias, national parks, restaurants and corporations.
Up to $55 Million in Funding Available to Develop Advanced Carbon Capture Technology at Existing Coa
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US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that $55 million will be made available to develop advanced technologies that can capture carbon dioxide from flue gases at existing power plants so that the greenhouse gas may be sequestered or put to beneficial use
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Billionaire George Soros, looking to address the "political problem" of climate change, said he will invest $1 billion in clean-energy technology and donate $100 million to an environmental advisory group to aid policymakers.
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OK, now VW is just toying with me...a plug-in hybrid electric diesel Golf? I want one now! http://blogs.motortrend.com/6566713/gree
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VW's primary efficiency push in the U.S. has been with diesel power, but over in Germany the company has launched a test fleet of TwinDrive plug-in electric hybrid Golfs.
