Tag: Alternative Energy
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TreeHugger Radio #204: A BP Engineer is Arrested, Obama Acts Serious on Energy, and Discovery Skates Over the Science
Brian and Jacob talk about floating wind turbines, a kindler, gentler Burger King, and what the Discovery Channel left out of Frozen Planet.
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Powerpot Generates Electricity From Your Campfire
Perfect for charging your phone or GPS while you make your breakfast.
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Getting the Market to Tell the Truth
If the world is to move onto a sustainable path we need the market to tell the truth, through full cost pricing.
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'80s TV Icons Paint Picture of Coal's Dirty Deeds
The Sierra Club is out with a series of ads to go along with Obama's proposed greenhouse gas standards.
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Cleveland Indians Score Another Green Hit With Innovative Helix Turbine, A Baseball First
A 18-foot-wide helix turbine specially designed for urban spaces has been installed on the roof of Progressive Field, ready to begin churning out energy on opening day.
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World Wind Power Climbs to New Record in 2011
With its long list of attractive attributes—widespread and abundant, quick to scale, climate-benign, and zero fuel cost—wind power is driving the transition to a new energy economy.
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In The Netherlands, A Buried House Becomes A Mountain
Young Architecture firm designs an almost underground house that is always comfortable
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Tweetable, Interactive Algae Farm is Energy-Generating "Cyber-Garden" (Photos)
This fascinating installation where algae, bioluminescent bacteria, humans and smartphones interact may chart where a new generation of urban "cyber-gardeners" may go.
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Abandoned Stable Becomes Luxury, Off-Grid Home
What looks like an old barn in the hills of Extremadura, Spain, turns out to be a stunning, luxury and entirely off-grid home.
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All-Electric Minicabs - You Can Hail One in London
In London, there's now an all-electric car you can hail like a cab. No more range anxiety, congestion charge, or parking panic.
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Wyoming to Get North America's Biggest Wind Farm (3000 MW)
New 1,000-turbine wind farm's a-coming.
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'Range Anxiety' Versus Reality - Why EVs Haven't Won Our Hearts and Minds
The average American driver, Census figures say, goes about 32 miles on any given day. Why, then do we obsess over EV range?
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Elizabeth Kolbert on Climate Denier Politicians and Why Extreme Weather is the New Norm (Podcast)
The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert on global warming science and Republican climate denial.
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Zinc-Air Battery With 30-Year Life Could Revolutionize Grid Energy Storage, Boost Wind & Solar Adoption
A startup claims to have made important breakthroughs in grid-scale battery technology. This could allow the storage of intermittent renewable energy and boost wind and solar power adoption.
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Asia's Coal Use Grew 500% Since 1980!
This animation of world coal consumption by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows clearly just how problematic Asia's coal dependency is.
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Green-Roofed Gas Station is Pretty, But Is It Actually Sustainable?
Sweden says it will open Europe's 'most sustainable' gas station next week. Should the words 'gas station' and 'sustainable' ever be lumped together?
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Will California Lose Race for World's Largest Solar Plant as Solar Millennium Declares Bankruptcy?
Will California lose the race with South Africa for the world's biggest solar power plant? And what will become of Desertec?
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Environmentalists Should Learn from Gay Rights Activists
Gay rights activists have been publicly challenging Republican Presidential candidates on their issues. Here's why the environmental movement should do the same.
