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Who Revived The Electric Car?
_uacct = "UA-3013296-1"; urchinTracker(); The MAGIC Team did. MAGIC stands for Mid Atlantic Grid Interactive Car, and they just resurrected the EV in a hot "wired" incarnation, with V2G technology on board.
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Other States to Adopt California's Emissions Standards, Sue Pants Off EPA
The 11 other states that have clutched California's tough emissions standards against their legislative bosoms: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey (whoo hoo!), New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
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Super-Composter a Hit On Campus at Montclair State University in NJ
Well folks, the students and faculty at Montclair State University in New Jersey recently celebrated the fact that they're newest eco-toy is up and running. And that means it's busy breaking down the food waste generated on campus and turning it into
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Utilities Can Protect America's Wildlife
Power companies, sewage treatment plants, and water providers can protect large amounts of wildlife habitat in cooperation with state governments, says a recent study by the nonpartisan Environmental Law Institute (ELI).
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Lawyers, Not TreeHuggers
"The U.S. Supreme
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The TH Interview: Wendy Reed, Energy Star's Change a Light, Change the World Campaign Manager
Starting today, Energy Star's Change a Light, Change the World campaign is hitting the road, touring the country (see the full schedule here) by bus to spread the good word about the difference we all can make in the fight against global warming by
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Young Marketing Whiz Creates Lemonade for Chimp Aid
When you've got a great slogan and greater cause good things will happen At least that's the lesson 9 year-old Amanda Ketterer learned recently, inspired to whip up a batch of seven gallons of lemonade and spend the next six and a half hours
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Energy Star's Change a Light, Change the World Campaign Hits the Road This Week
TreeHugger has known for a while now how much difference changing your incandescent light bulbs in favor of CFLs can make (answer: a lot!). To help spread this message beyond those who read TreeHugger, the folks at Energy Star are reaching out to a
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Seen in New YorkJersey: Geico's Mindless Littering Campaign
Famed caveman nemesis and friend to talking reptiles, Geico, blew by the neighborhood this afternoon like a hurricane, planting advertisement hang tags on every fence post, gate, and railing as far as the eye could see.
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More New Jerseyans Digging Compost
An increasing number of New Jersey residents are catching the compost bug, especially when they realize that cutting the amount of household trash in landfills plays a large role in going green.
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New Fuel Cell Design Could Help Laptops Run 5 to 10 Times Longer
A new fuel cell design that would convert methanol into hydrogen could provide 50 hours' worth of juice to laptops and other portable electronics. The compact device — unveiled by Ronald Besser, a professor of chemical engineering at Stevens Institute of
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Girl Scouts Teach Classmates About Climate Change
While us grownups are still duking it out with one another over the validity of climate change, a troop of girl scouts decided to cut through the muck and educate their fellow Grade 6 students about global warming, the importance of
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Taste the Garden State on Sept. 8
Hello my fellow New Jerseyians, New Jerseyites, New Jersey gangstas, Slow Food Northern NJ and Buy Fresh Buy Local, along with The Foodshed Alliance, NOFA NJ, and Whole Foods, are organizing the 2nd Annual Farm and Food Open House on Sept. 8. (Don't
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Vegetarian Buddhists Sought For Release Of Non-Native Species
Somehow the idea of a New York sect of Amitabha Buddhists releasing imported eels frogs and turtles into New Jersey's Passaic River, a body of water already beset with a host of problems, doesn't match up with a 'do no harm' stereotype we westerners
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Young Pirates Get Unique View of Ecology Aboard a Tall Ship
They may be sucked into the vortex of cellphones and Myspace while living life on land, but when kids are out sailing on the A.J. Meerwald, and 80-year-old oyster schooner turned education center they seem to get a whole new view of the world. That's
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Serious Chemical Contamination Leaves School District in Chaos
While kids and parents across much of the U.S. are deciding how they can get the most out of summer vacation, there’s a boatload of parents in Paramus, New Jersey who are having their children's blood tested for exposure to dangerous pesticides at West
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N.J. Takes Lead on Global Warming War
New Jersey lawmakers launched one of nation's most aggressive attacks on global warming yesterday by approving a measure to cut the state's heat-trapping emissions to 15 to 25 percent below current levels by 2020 and 80
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New Jersey's Carbon Footprint
Just how does New Jersey stack up against other states when it comes to global-warming carbon emissions? The U.S. Energy Information Administration has the Garden State's number.
