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2008: The Year in Pictures and Images
2008 was a banner year in the green world, and with events like the economic recession came some pretty interesting pictures. Sometimes funny, occasionally sad, always poignant, check out our gallery for 2008: The Year in Pictures and Images to see if
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2008: The Year in Pictures and Images
The title for this one where we first saw it (at Digg), says it all: "Please, Global Warming, can I at least have this?"
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UK Industry on Peak Oil: Virgin, Yahoo and Others Raise the Alarm
Update: For a more detailed analysis of the report's contents, check out Matt's post from last week. Big Business Starts Warning of an Oil Crunch While some in the business world have recognised and spoken out about the threat of peak oil — from Sh
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The TH Interview: Chris Goodall--Ten Techs to Save Our Butts (Part Two)
In part two of our interview with the author of Ten Technologies to Save the Planet, we continue our tour of the coolest, most promising, and most necessary green technologies alive today. Get ready for electric cars, carbon capture, and (I know it's
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Score One For the Stupid Fuel: Ohio Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Plant Gets Final Permitting
Here's a first for the United States that isn't so great for the environment... I'm sure Baard Energy is thrilled.
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Honda FC Sport Concept: So Funky it's Actually Cool, or Just Plain Funky Ugly!
The Honda FC Sport Concept was shown at the LA Auto Show this past week, and as the funky sports car spun around its tier, the dazed onlookers had only one thing to say, "... Chirp... chirp... chirp...chirp... burb!"Many
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I Don't Think Alternative Energy Means What You Think It Means: Fred Pearce to BP
Last month British newspaper The Guardian started a greenwashing column to turn the spotlight on the dubious claims of environmental benefits that some companies put forth. In the latest of these columns, Fred Pearce takes on BP, showing
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The TH Interview: Chris Goodall--Ten Techs to Save Our Butts (Part One)
Mr. Goodall phrases it more elegantly than we have, to be sure, but the premise is the same: if we want to avoid big trouble in paradise, we need to get very busy with radically new technologies. Goodall is an author (his previous book was How to Live a
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BLM Issues New Rules for Oil Shale Development: Last Minute Bush Administration Environmental Trashing?
Though Congress let the offshore drilling and oil shale development ban lapse back in the end of September, few expected that new rules to develop US oil shale would be proposed before the end of the year. Well, the Bureau of Land
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Air New Zealand Prepares for Biofuel Test Flight
Image from Airplane-Pictures.net Date Set for Jatropha-Powered Test Flight The announcement that Air New Zealand had set an ambitious sustainable biofuels goal for 2013 created a lot of buzz back in September. But all too often such announcements amount
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New Acronym Alert: IRENA, The International Renewable Energy Agency
In the deepening alphabet soup of energy policy organizations, here’s another one to look out for. The newly formed International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) doesn’t even have a formalized plan for a
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The TH Interview: Van Jones—The Green Collar Economy (Part Two)
We can't drill and burn our way out of our economic and ecological ills, but we can invent and invest our way out, says the author of The Green Collar Economy and founder of Green for All. In part two of our conversation with Van Jones, we talk
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Metal Alloy Could Make Hydrogen Storage in Cars 60% Lighter Than Batteries
One of the problems with developing a commercially workable system of using hydrogen as a transportation fuel is the fact that tanks that safely and securely store the hydrogen are generally so heavy as to be cumbersome in the
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California Voters Reject Well Meaning But Poorly Drafted Renewable Energy Ballot Initiatives
A quick post-vote update to some of the renewable energy ballot initiatives in California: With over over a third of votes counted, approximately 60% of voters have rejected both Proposition 7 and Proposition 10. Prop 7 would have
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'Mycodiesel' From Patagonian Tree Fungus Could Be Used Directly in Diesel Engines
If there's a holy grail of biofuels industry it would be something like this... The Guardian is reporting on research done at Montana State University which has discovered
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The TH Interview: Van Jones—The Green Collar Economy (Part One)
Do you love your hybrid, fear for the plight of the polar bears, dying to put solar panels on your roof? Then you might be a member of the eco-elite. Not that there's anything wrong with you, says Van Jones, but for a green economy to be truly
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Poll Shows The Pickens Publicity Plan Is Working
Pickens is Campaigning for Energy Independence As the presidential campaign enters the home stretch, and the candidates continue hammering home their messages on the key issues of the day--among them, of course, energy independence and energy prices--it
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Fuel Cell (Hydrogen-Powered) Wheelchairs
With the Japanese population aging rapidly, the fuel-cell wheelchair and cart applications have a bright future. In fact, Japan already has the world's highest proportion of elderly people. More than 20% are over the age of 65 and this figure is
