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GE Can Take This To The Bank: T.Boone Orders 667 Turbines For Texas Panhandle
This is amazing. A wind farm by T. Boone Pickens at a scale that dwarfs all others. We have to wonder: which has more "green jobs" impact, GE selling its appliance division or fulfilling an order for the world's largest wind farm? Mesa Power LLP, a
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T. Boone Pickens Rides the Wind
Katie Fehrenbacher at Earth2Tech calls T. Boone Pickens "our favorite oil- baron- turned- wind- power- wildcatter, as he makes his first down payment on 500 wind turbines to build the world's largest wind farm. The Guardian calls it "the biggest and
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The TH Interview: Jarid Manos, the Ghetto Plainsman (Part Two)
People call the Texas plains "flyover country." Jarid Manos calls this land a coral reef in a sea of grass. In a region that has been ground under America's boot heel, Manos and his Great Plains Restoration Council have found a rich ecosystem,
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The Go Green School of the Week: Kingwood Park High School in TX!
When it comes down to environmental education, the folks at this week's school of the week have it down in more ways than one. For starters, they've set up an Adopt-a-Green Space Program where classes, team advisories, and clubs adopt a space on
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The TH Interview: Jarid Manos, the Ghetto Plainsman (Part One)
Manos grew up as a "stray dog," without guidance and without boundaries in world where life is only slashed down, never nurtured. In Ghetto Plainsman he traces his wanderings through a world of drugs, crime, prostitution, and depression. But it was all
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Steelcase Walks the Green Walk, Buys Naming Rights to Wind Farm
TreeHugger is always on the lookout for companies willing to back up their green talk with a little green walk; at a time when "going green" is more popular than ever, it's easy to get bogged down in marketing double-speak and greenwashing. Today,
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Texan Know-how
Alexander Reh is from Texas and he loves fishing and hunting; maybe that explains his "Fully Loaded Chair" (pictured) which is made of 400 loaded shotgun shells fitted into a steel frame. With shiny brass tips on the seat and back to act as a massage,
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The Go Green Initiative's School of the Week: Grand Prairie High School in Grand Prairie, TX!
As the saying goes, "Everything's bigger in Texas," and Grand Prairie High School's environmental program is no exception. Their AP Environmental Science class has been busy charting a greener path towards environmental stewardship since 1998. And this
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Big Money in Texas Wind Power Boom
Wind power in Texas keeps impressing us. A little less than two years ago, the Lone Star state passed California to become the biggest wind power producer in the USA. Since then, it hasn't been resting on its laurels: Installed wind generation capacity
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Living With Water Extremes: A Juxtaposition Of Design Responses
Many people live with the daily fear of not having enough water. Take Atlanta, Georgia USA, for example. Atlanta is an inverse Atlantis. Until recently, Atlanta was legendary for rapid growth without limits. Its citizens ever willing to live with
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The Go Green Initiative's School of the Week: Benavides Elementary in Brownsville, TX!
This week's Go Green Initiative School of the Week hails from Brownsville, Texas and they're the second school from that part of the U.S. to take home top honors. Just a few short weeks ago Barbara Bush Elementary brought them home to Texas, earning
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Escape From Diab, a Video Game to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Related Illnesses
We previously wrote about how design can improve life for those affected by diabetes, a life threatening disease that is responsible for almost 3 million yearly deaths worldwide, according to WHO. And the numbers are growing. WHO estimates that by
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US State & Municipal LEEDers Identified:- Who'd Have Thought?
This table of top metro-areas for LEED certification is excerpted from a recently published study that evaluated, on a national basis, the rent and value differentials of energy-efficient (LEED certified or "green") buildings. A few of the valuation
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Texas Town Embraces Wind Energy. Climate Change, Not So Much.
We might not be too keen on the idea to build artificial ski slopes and snow caves there, but it's not all bad in Texas. We've already noted that they are way ahead of California in developing wind power and now, courtesy of NPR, we've found a
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Annals of Great Ideas: Snow Caves in Texas
Joni Mitchell nailed it in Big Yellow Taxi: "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'till its gone." at which point you just have to fake it. As out of place as a water park in Phoenix, they are going to build, in Texas, "a
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Urban Intensification: Inhabiting Billboards
Those massive billboards by urban highways have a lot of structure to them; one can imagine them holding a lot more than they do. Imagine if they were inhabited. Brendan O'Grady did this and won big in the Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation
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It's America Recycles Day!
Of course, every TreeHugger knows that it is America Recycles Day, (for TreeHuggers every day is a recycling day) started ten years ago to increase awareness of the importance of recycling. There are activities across the country, that you can attend,
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Top 10 Farmers Markets in USA
Where can you learn what to do with "underappreciated produce"? And where can you get fish once reserved only for royalty? Find out in this month's issue of green*light which takes readers on a tour of the top 10 farmers markets in the USA. If you
