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Earth 3.0: Solutions for Sustainable Progress: In-Depth Reports
Solutions to environmental problems ranging from global warming to peak oil--and how the environment is playing a role in this year's elections From Earth 3.0: Solutions for Sustainable Progress: In-Depth Reports 3.0? Did I miss the rapture or ... 		Sep 24, 2008
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Paint your roof white, save the planet
According to a new study by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory scientists, there's an astonishingly low-tech solution that may help to cool the planet and reverse global warming. Paint your roof white. From Paint your roof white, save the planet - Machinist ... 		Sep 14, 2008
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Two Large Solar Plants Planned in California
Companies will build two solar power plants in California that together will put out more than 12 times as much electricity as the largest such plant today, a fresh indication that solar energy is starting to achieve significant scale. The plants will ... 		Aug 14, 2008
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Carbon Socialists
Yeah, OK, OK. Well, I think -- I mean, I think Gore would have been a disaster as president. We'd have been living in the Dark Ages. I think he's fundamentally hostile to human civilization. And a phony.From Media Matters - Carlson: If Al Gore were ... 		Nov 27, 2007
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Electric Meets Diesel in Opel E-Flex
the Opel E-Flex is a European concept of the Chevy Volt unleaded/electric hybrid. Other than its propensity to drink more wine and go "on holiday," the Opel will use a 1.3lt turbo diesel engine to recharge the car's lithium ion batteries when they run ... 		Sep 8, 2007
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Speed Freaks: The 10 Fastest Green Cars on the Planet
Toyota's own Landspeed Prius cracked the hybrid speed record on a run at Bonneville. Starting with the car's stock Hybrid Synergy Drive system -- a 1.5-liter four-cylinder gasoline engine and 50 kw permanent-magnet electric motor -- the Toyota team gave ... 		Sep 3, 2007
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The Dark Horse in the Race to Power Hybrid Cars
Many motorists chuckle smugly after giving their cars a little extra gas to leave a Toyota Prius or some other eco-friendly automobile in the dust. But Toyota and its Earth-loving ilk may yet have the last laugh as they cultivate encouraging new ... 		Aug 30, 2007
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Fungi Make Biodiesel Efficiently at Room Temperature
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology have found a much better way to make biodiesel. Their new method could lower the cost and increase the energy efficiency of fuel production. Instead of mixing the ingredients and heating them ... 		Aug 22, 2007
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Taming tornadoes to power cities
Michaud has spent the past 40 years studying tornados and hurricanes, and is convinced it's possible to engineer and control powerful, full-scale whirlwinds and harness their energy to produce emission-free electricity. Forget wind farms and their ... 		Jul 31, 2007
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Toyota to Test Plug-In Hybrid, Rivaling G.M.
Toyota’s announcement is its first formal confirmation that it is ready to test plug-in hybrid vehicles, which environmentalists say may prove to be cleaner and more fuel-efficient than current hybrids. From Toyota to Test Plug-In Hybrid, Rivaling ... 		Jul 28, 2007
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Solar Flashlight
a Sudanese refugee, announced that his wife had just given birth, and the boy would be honored with the visitor'€™s name. After several awkward translation attempts of "€œMark Bent,"€ it was settled. "€œMar,"€ he said, will grow up hearing stories of ... 		May 22, 2007
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The Solar Powered Amish
What community has the highest per-capita use of solar energy in Ohio? None other than the Amish. It might sound strange to people who think of the Amish as 19th century holdovers, but that's an oversimplification. Instead, after considering the impact ... 		May 18, 2007
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Billions in Oil Missing in Iraq
Between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day of Iraq’s declared oil production over the past four years is unaccounted for and could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling, according to a draft American government report. From New York ... 		May 16, 2007
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Discovery to Start Channel Focusing on Green Movement
Discovery Communications, the cable channel operator, plans to start a 24-hour channel focused on eco-friendly living, as part of a push into the rising environmental movement. The company, based in Silver Spring, Md., will next year rebrand its ... 		Apr 9, 2007
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hot air on wind power
Engineers have cut the price of electricity derived from wind by about 80 percent in the last 20 years, setting up this renewable technology for a major share of the electricity market. But for all its promise, wind also generates a big problem: because ... 		Dec 28, 2006
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OPEC Moves Toward Production Cuts
A consensus among OPEC members began to form over the weekend about cuts in oil production to help stem the recent decline in price, but the group’s members have not yet agreed on how to share the reduced output. From As Price Slips, OPEC Moves Toward ... 		Oct 9, 2006
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Fuel-Efficient Cars Help Toyota to Strong Profits
TOKYO, Aug. 4 — Toyota Motor Company said its income jumped 39.2 percent to $3.2 billion during the second quarter, boosted by strong sales of fuel-efficient vehicles in the United States, where it passed Ford Motor Company in July sales to rank as the ... 		Aug 4, 2006
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An Inconvenient Truth
I saw An Inconvenient Truth over the last weekend. I liked it. Mr. Gore does a great job at providing a layman's review on Global Warming. With that said, he does a bunch of things that drove me absolutely nuts. First off, why were so many of those ... 		Jun 1, 2006
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It's Only $300 Billion
For the United States, the cost of the Iraq war will soon exceed the anticipated cost of the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement designed to control greenhouse gases. For both, the cost is somewhere in excess of $300 billion. From WaPo: It's ... 		May 11, 2006
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thoughts on gas rebate checks
One thing struck me about the $100 gas rebate checks. It seems to be indistinguishable from a money laundering scheme. As Mark Felt said, follow the money: Money comes from tax payers (or China) to the Treasury. Money is sent back to tax payers to pay ... 		May 5, 2006

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