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May 28, 2009 09:21 AM EDT
(featured date: May 28, 2009)
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What will power your next car? Will it be gasoline, diesel, perhaps mixed with biofuel? Or will it be electricity? In case electricity will power your next car, how will it be produced? From coal, natural . . .
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February 23, 2009 02:09 AM EST
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On Monday, March 2, 2009, people from all walks of life and organizations from across the political spectrum will gather for Capitol Climate Action in DC.
People will gather at 1:00pm, at the Spirit . . .
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February 15, 2009 10:31 PM EST
(featured date: February 23, 2009)
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has in many respects underestimated the severity of global warming and the speed at which it strikes. "From 2000 to 2007, greenhouse gas emissions . . .
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February 03, 2009 01:10 AM EST
(featured date: February 23, 2009)
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President Obama, please read this!
The energy and environmental policy that you have proposed for the U.S. is a patchwork of policies, ranging from higher fuel efficiency standards and subsidies for . . .
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January 28, 2009 02:26 AM EST
(featured date: February 23, 2009)
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In Greek mythology, Ceto was a sea goddess. Ceto was a daughter of Gaia and Pontus, and she personified the power of the sea.
In a current incarnation, CETO is the name of a wave power technology . . .
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January 22, 2009 05:52 AM EST
(featured date: February 23, 2009)
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While the weather has been cold in some places over the past few months, the year 2008 was among the ten warmest years in the period of instrumental measurements, which extends back to 1880. The . . .
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January 20, 2009 09:36 PM EST
(featured date: February 23, 2009)
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Here are two parts of President Barack Obama ’s Inaugural Address that I found particularly interesting:
"Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the . . .
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January 13, 2009 05:34 AM EST
(featured date: February 23, 2009)
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Cycle A: Inorganic Waste
We're all familiar with the idea that we're running out of scarce resources. We just cannot continue to keep drilling and mining for more fossil fuel, metals . . .
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October 23, 2008 08:23 AM EDT
(featured date: October 23, 2008)
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Professor David Keith of the University of Calgary is working on a device that removes carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) directly from ambient air.
Keith has built a tower, 4 feet wide and 20 feet tall, . . .
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February 29, 2008 04:05 AM EST
(featured date: February 29, 2008)
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Lights consume about 2 trillion kilowatt-hours annually, or one-eighth of all electric power. Globally, lighting is equal in emission contribution to about 70% of the world's passenger vehicles. Of . . .
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February 27, 2008 06:43 PM EST
(featured date: February 29, 2008)
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The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was agreed on December 11, 1997 in Kyoto, Japan. Under the protocol, countries committed to monitor and report their . . .
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February 28, 2008 10:34 PM EST
(featured date: February 29, 2008)
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Okay, that was perhaps a bit rude. But I became incensed today as I read an article in USA Today newspaper ("Some consumers lukewarm about energy-saving bulbs", Page 2A, February 28 issue). . . .
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February 18, 2008 01:12 AM EST
(featured date: February 18, 2008)
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As we all know, we should end the practices of burning forests and clearing land for farming, for urban expansion and for road construction. Big companies are often blamed for this, but what's often . . .
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February 17, 2008 03:46 AM EST
(featured date: February 17, 2008)
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Meet the sQuba, the car that travels over land and water, as well as swims under water. It was designed by Swiss Rinspeed Design Company.
Instead of a combustion engine, it has three electric motors, . . .
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December 25, 2007 04:39 AM EST
(featured date: December 25, 2007)
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The Lightning car company has released new electric cars in the UK. The electric Lightning GT and Sports versions are now available to pre-order. Reservations for the first cars (2008 delivery) . . .
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December 24, 2007 05:23 AM EST
(featured date: December 25, 2007)
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Can electric vehicles supply power to homes? The short answer is yes! Electric vehicles can be connected to the electric grid, not only to draw electricity from the grid (in order to recharge their . . .
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December 17, 2007 12:18 AM EST
(featured date: December 25, 2007)
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Electric vehicles have many advantages, such as little maintenance, gear changes, noise and fumes, and - of course - no emissions, if powered with electricity from clean sources.
Batteries can be expensive . . .
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December 13, 2007 09:17 AM EST
(featured date: December 25, 2007)
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Friends! As we enter this new era, we face the giant task of transforming society, by changing the very fabric of our economy, all in a mere decade. That fabric is energy, currently supplied largely . . .
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December 21, 2007 09:15 AM EST
(featured date: December 25, 2007)
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FREEDOM FROM OIL: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction (McGraw Hill, 2008), by David Sandalow.
BOOK REVIEW by Sam Carana
In his book, Freedom from Oil, Sandalow gets . . .
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December 09, 2007 07:11 AM EST
(featured date: December 10, 2007)
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The Tesla Roadster is an all-electric car with some very impressive specs:
- Acceleration 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds
- Top Speed of over 125 mph
- Range of 245 miles on one . . .
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