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Alternative Energy
TreeHugger:
Rice = food and electricity at the same time... photo: ya po guille via flickr.One solution for getting clean electricity to the 440-some million people in rural India who currently don't have grid power (or any power...) is (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Image credit: WebecoistFrom turning waste food into energy to delivering food by barge, UK supermarket Sainsbury's has been exploring alternative energy and transportation for some time. They even recently unveiled "people-po (Read More)
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future:
Peak Oil Files: Why Is Saudi Aramco Building Supercomputers?The biannual list of the world’s 500 fastest computers was released on Tuesday and Aramco had two new entries at No. 119 and No. 134. Both are Dell clusters, running (Read More)
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The Race for Clean-Tech is OnA new study by the Breakthrough Institute and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation shows that the U.S. could be left behind by Asia (specifically by China, South Korea and Japan) w (Read More)
CleanTechnica:
DOE’s new renewable energy Venture Capital unit ARPA-E has just funded an entirely new kind of liquid battery innovation from MIT professor Donald Sadoway, that works like an aluminum plant running in reverse; producing powe (Read More)
TreeHugger:
This week at Fast Company, we looked at a Silicon Valley designer's green take on the little red wagon, a zoo that replaced real polar bears with electronic versions, a prosthetic leg that replaces crutches, and Joule Biotech (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Proposed GreenGen IGCC coal plant in Tianjin, ChinaThe US-China duck pancake of climate cooperation, made this week by Presidents Obama and Hu, has left us with much to chew over. But the component that everyone was waiting f (Read More)
Gangsters Go Green! Mafia Tied to Fraudulent Italian Wind Farms - Madagascar 'Timber Mafia' Thriving
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TreeHugger:
photo: Chiara Marra via flickr.There have been an increasing number of stories coming to light detailing how organized crime syndicates around the world have been getting their dirty little fingers into the green world. The l (Read More)
Huffington Post:
At the beginning of George W. Bush's presidency, political rhetoric regarding China took the form of old-school Cold War mantras. At the time, US consumption and Chinese production were as dependent on one another as heroin a (Read More)
New York Times:
Federal regulators have accused four people and two companies of using bogus claims about "green initiatives" to entice more than 300 investors into what was really a $30 million Ponzi scheme.
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TreeHugger:
There are a lot of options out there for green web hosting. In an effort to green up an energy and resource intensive industry, some use carbon offsets, some sign up for green power plans with power companies. Canvas Dreams, (Read More)
TreeHugger:
75% of our electricity goes into buildings, and much of that runs air conditioning. The entire system is built to try and cope with the peak loads that come in summer. TreeHugger has covered ice storage systems before; they (Read More)
New York Times:
China's largest solar panel manufacturer announced plans to open its first American solar plant, in the greater Phoenix area.
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TreeHugger:
Image: VattenfallVattenfall, the Swedish national energy concern named after waterfalls, will announce a new CEO in the coming weeks. Apparently caught by surprise with a candidate who has not yet entirely been confirmed, the (Read More)
TreeHugger:
What do you give the person who has everything? You give nothing--and give to someone you've never met instead. The opportunities for charitable donations are limitless, so it's easy to find a cause that matches your philanth (Read More)
CleanTechnica:
A new report by iSuppli Corp. predicts that by 2013, 31% of the solar panel market will be accounted for by thin-film solar panels. These thin-film panels are rapidly replacing traditional crystalline photovoltaic panels.Thin (Read More)
TreeHugger:
A healthy and high-tech green collar economy has been a great promise of the Obama administration. On the front lines of the fight to create green jobs and spur the economy is the Apollo Alliance, an amalgam of labor, busines (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Martin LaMonica, Senior Editor, CNETPainting the Golden Gate Bridge yellow might cause less fuss than trying to install a wind farm off Cape Cod’s historic coast.But when you’re trying to build where the wind is strongest (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Photo via FlickrFinding sources for renewable energy isn't always pretty--we've seen Swedes turn to dead bunnies and dairy farms use manure. Now, it seems there's another option on the table: dirty diapers. Yes, a new diaper (Read More)
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