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The Precarious Genius of the Middle Class

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greed, Elizabeth Warren, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, S Renewable Energy, American Dream, Middle Class, Banking Crisis, Clean Energy, Education Reform, Genius, Wealth Gap, Tax Havens, Third World America, Politics News

What will America become if we have to rely solely on the wealthy to provide medical, scientific, engineering, manufacturing, art and social inventions?

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Green Idealism, or Which Way the Wind Is Really Blowing

Graham Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, T.Boone Pickens, Green Living, Green Energy, S Renewable Energy, Texas Wind Power, Texas Wind Power Investment, Green News

None other than Time magazine is talking about the importance of green collar jobs to a rebuild of the economy, discussing some of the ideas author Van Jones outlines in his new book The Green-Collar Economy.

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How A 2006 Tortilla Crisis Is Still Causing Energy Innovation

AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Tortilla Crisis, Biofuels, S Renewable Energy, Food Crisis, Non-Edible Biofuels, Ethanol, Green Energy, Sustainability, Green News

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom. ...

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Spain's Solar Cemetary

AP | DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, S Renewable Energy, Santa Coloma, Solar Cemetary, Renewable Energy, Spain, Green Energy, Solar Power, Green News

MADRID, Spain — A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change. Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritty, working-class town o...

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Don't Forget the Green Collar Entrepreneurs

Andy Posner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Jobs, S Renewable Energy, Van Jones Book, Green Living, Green Energy, Recession, Green Entrepreneurs, Mohammed Yunus, Green News

The key to supporting green collar entrepreneurs is to combine Van Jones' green job training model with Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus' model for microfinance.

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How To Change the World Through Your Workplace (Part 2)

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Giving Life, Social Innovation, HurriQuake Nail, Ibm, MaRS Centre, Workplace, S Renewable Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Second Life, Stanley Bostitch, Ed Sutt, New Radicals, Innovation, Julia Moulden, Healthy Living News

On Monday, I spoke at the Social Entrepreneurship Summit held at the MaRS Centre in Toronto. Although, as the name suggests, people came to learn abou...

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Cellulosic Ethanol: What Is It?

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Cellulosic Ethanol, Ethanol, Green Energy, Biofuels, S Renewable Energy, Green News

Cellulosic ethanol is a type of fuel made from fibrous plant matter -- the non-edible stuff -- and wood chips. Optimists speculate that it could be as...

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Obama, Global Warming, and the Fast Track to Economic Stability

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Obama, Green Collar Jobs, Green Economy, Economic Stimulus, Green Energy, S Renewable Energy, Global Warming, Obama Economic Stimulus, Green News

Obama recognizes something those cynics may not: that the path to economic stability leads right through global warming solutions.

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Governors' Global Climate Summit: Thinking As One Planet

Paige Donner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sebelius, Cap and Trade, World Wildlife Fund, S Renewable Energy, Blagojevich, Governors' Global Climate Summit, Brazil, Nature Conservancy, Executive Order, Renewable Energy, Environm, Eu, Carb, Beverly Hilton, Flex-Fuel, Jim Doyle, Barack Obama, Ental Defense Fund, Canada, Schwarzenegger, Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Indonesia, Poland, Algae Biofuels, Environment, Climate Change, Redd, Copenhagen, Deforestation, China, Crist, Politics News

What was heard at the Governor's Global Climate Summit, held earlier this week in Los Angeles, was a chorus of international voices.

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Wood Pellet Boilers: Carbon-Neutral Heating (VIDEO)

Chelsea Green | J S Mcdougall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainable Wood, Energy, Green Construction, S Renewable Energy, Fossil Fuels, Alternative Energy, Environment, Wood Pellet Boiler, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Energy, Winter Heating, Green Living, Green News

Greg Pahl, author of Natural Home Heating: The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Options, no longer relies on fossil fuels for winter heat. He has no...

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World's First Plug-In Electric Car Goes On Sale Next Month - In China

Treehugger | Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: S Renewable Energy, Alternative Energy, Green News, Environment, Cars, Solar Powered Cars, Solar Power, China, Green News

As the ghost of GM's assassinated electric car haunts a fearful Detroit, another boogeyman is waiting in the wings: the world's first mass-produced p...

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Politicians Save

Reuters | Deborah Zabarenko | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental Policy, Natural Resources, S Renewable Energy, Mining, Boreal Forest, Environment, Green News, Oil, Conservation, Logging, Climate Change, Deforestation, Global Warming, Canada, Green News

Politicians actually listened when experts told them to protect Canada's boreal forest, a potent weapon against global warming, and the plan for this ...

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Climate Change Policy: The Good News and the Challenge Ahead

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 111th Congress, Energy Efficiency, United Nations Climate Change, Green Jobs, Energy Action Coalition, Clean Coal, 350.Org, Ipcc, S Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy, Conservation, Climate Change, Green Business, Coal, Global Warming, Barack Obama, 1sky, Green News

30 national organizations working to combat global warming came together on a set of recommendations delivered to President-elect Obama earlier this month.

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Obama Hits Green Homerun With Remarks to Govs on Energy, Climate

Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Energy Policy, Governor's Climate Summit, S Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Obama Energy Speech, Economic Recovery, Sierra Club, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Green News

President-Elect Obama's remarks should quiet any remaining suspicions that his campaign pledges were merely fleeting campaign promises to be discarded after Election Day.

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Driving Change From Inside Your Workplace (Yes, You Can!)

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Giving Life, Baby Boomers, Workplace, S Renewable Energy, Stanley Bostitch, The Giving Life, Ed Sutt, Innovation, New Radicals, President-Elect Obama, Julia Moulden, Healthy Living News

The response to last week's post made me realize it's time to write about New Radical Innovators (New Radicals are people like you and me who've found...

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Colorado Company Takes Algae-Based Fuel to the Next Level

Green Inc. | Matthew L. Wald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Co2, Automobiles, Biofuels, S Renewable Energy, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Green News, Solix, Algae, Climate Change, Biodiesel, Soy, Green News

A Colorado company will break ground early next year on an algae farm that is intended to produce thousands of gallons of substitutes for gasoline and...

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South Australia 10 Years Ahead Of Renewable Energy Target

Treehugger | Warren McLaren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Australia Wind Power, Australia, Australia Renewable Energy, South Australia, Kevin Rudd, Wind Turbines, Green Energy, S Renewable Energy, Green News

The ninth wind farm in South Australia just opened on the Barunga Ranges near Snowtown. Its 47 turbines, installed by Trust Power of New Zealand, (who...

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Barack Obama's Bridge to the 22nd Century

Clint Wilder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Energy Policy, President-Elect Barack Obama, Malia Obama, Ann Nixon Cooper, S Renewable Energy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Fossil Fuels, Obama Family, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Barack Obama, Sasha Obama, Green News

2104 is the year that ten-year-old Malia Obama would turn 106, and her younger sister Sasha would do so in 2108. What will the nation and the world look like then?

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Hyperion Nuclear: Buy Your Own Nuclear Power Plant

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Home Nuclear Reactor, S Renewable Energy, Home Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy, Hyperian, Hyperion Nuclear, Hyperion, Hiperian, Hiperian Nuclear, Nuclear Weapons, Hyperion Hydride Reactor, Hyperion Nuclear Plants, Hyperian Nuclear, Mini Nuclear Power Plants, Green News

At a time when energy costs have become a real focus again -- and major nuclear failures appear to be fading in consumers' memories -- one business is...

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4 Megawatt Solar Power System Will Save L.A. Community College $280,000 On Electric Bills

Treehugger | Matthew McDermott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Electricity, S Renewable Energy, L.A. Southwest College, Environment, Renewable Energy, Chevron Energy Solutions, East L.A. College, Los Angeles, Solar Power, Green News

Chalk up another institute of higher education getting into renewable energy. L.A. Southwest College (part of Los Angeles' community college system) h...

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Journey to the Center of a Windmill

Summer Rayne Oakes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, G Word, Solar, S Renewable Energy, Discovery, Cnbc, Windmills, Renewable Energy, Alternative Energies, Wind Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Action, Wind Turbines, Discovery Planet Green, Entertainment News

In between doing some Planet Green events I've been filming for G Word, one of Discovery's new shows. Here's a recap on one of my favorite episodes. S...

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California's First Solar Thermal Plant In 20 Years

EcoGeek | Hank Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, California, Ausra, Green Energy, S Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Solar Thermal Plant, Solar Thermal Power, Business News

The plant is the first built by Ausra which is already planning a similar plant in Las Vegas. They're somewhat famous for their claim that they could ...

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Morgan Stanley Floats Tidal Power Plans

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Energy, S Renewable Energy, United Kingdom, Computers, Renewable Energy, Green Business, Green Energy, Morgan Stanley, Carbon Tax, Scotland, Green News, Tidal Power, Clean Technology, Oceans, Technology, Green News

Morgan Stanley plans to build a 150-megawatt data center powered entirely by tidal energy off the coast of Scotland, the banking giant announced earlier this month.

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Chicago Company To Build Wind Farm Downstate

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Illinois Wind Farm, McLean County Wind Farm, Invenergy Wind, S Renewable Energy, Information Is Power, Chicago News

An agreement has been reached between the developer of a McLean County wind farm and a group of landowners that opposed the project. Invenergy Wind...

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Deutsche Bank Calls for A Green Economic Recovery Plan

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

If these trends in the fossil fuel markets continue, prices will drop, but that means companies won't invest in new projects. Inevitability, we will be looking at a brownout future.

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