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Why Committing to Green Energy Matters

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Hydro Power, Green News, Alternate Energy, Utility Bills, New York State Energy, Electricity, Deforestration, ConEdison Solutions, Renewable Enegy, Envrionment, Green Energy, Air Pollution, Renewable Power, Wind Farms, Green News
Marcia G. Yerman

The amount of green energy being supplied to consumers in New York now stands at just over 1 percent. Either people don't know their options, don't understand them, or don't want to spend the extra money.

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Profiles in Doing Both: The Missing Link in Electric Vehicle Technology

Inder Sidhu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cisco, Carbon Emissions, Electric Cars, Alternate Energy, Hybrid Cars, Emerging Countries, Shai Aggasi, Better Place, Inder Sidhu, Doing Both, Cherry Automobile, Business News
Inder Sidhu

Unlike most companies working to provide environmentally friendly transportation, Better Place focused its energies not on the electric vehicles themselves but on the overlooked infrastructure they require.

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In Europe "Think Globally and Act Locally" Is More Than Just a Slogan for Saving the Planet

Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Italy, Europe, Alternate Energy, Environmentalists, Earth Day, Greenhouse Gas, Co2, Climate Alliance, Green Living, Green Energy, Barack Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, Obama Environment, Energy Saving, Fossil Fuels, Activism, Climate Change, Green News, Environment, Photovoltaic Cells, Green Politics, Cities, Global Warming, Green News
Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin

Since it burst onto the scene in the 1970s, the mainstream American environmental movement has too often regarded federal leadership and mandates as t...

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To BP: It's Personal.

David Helvarg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Francisco, Alternate Energy, Hurricane Katrina, Cosco Busan, Bp, Gulf Oil Spill, Climate Change, BP Oil Spill, Deepwater Horizon, Green News
David Helvarg

Nancy loved the ocean, so when she died from breast cancer at the age of 43 we had a memorial service at her favorite beach on the Marin California headlands. Five years later I returned to Rodeo Beach, where oil had come ashore.

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The Burning Wire: A Not to Be Missed Reading Experience

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kathryn Dance, Electricity, Alternate Energy, Jeffery Deaver, Quadraplegics, Books News
Jackie K. Cooper

Everything about a Deaver novel is close to perfect in its execution. In The Burning Wire he continues the story of Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic as well as a top notch forensic criminologist.

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Obama Urged to Find Climate Money

Yahoo! News | Jeffrey Allen, OneWorld US | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alternate Energy, Climate Change, Nancy-Soderberg, Oil Subsidies, Barack Obama, International-Finance, Green News

Climate analysts are calling on the Obama administration to use an international finance meeting this week to press for a swift end to subsidies for c...

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British PM Calls For $100 Billion Global Green Fund

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Developing World, Gordon Brown, Global, Climate Crisis, Climate Change, Alternative Energy Resources, Alternate Energy, Alternative Energy Supplies, Green Energy, Alternative and Renewable, Renewable Resources, Alternate Energy Sources, Clean Renewable Energy, Evolving Energy Tech, Alternative Renewable Energy, Alternative Energy Resource, Alternative Energy Sources, Alternative Energy Efficiency, Alternative Energy Demand, Renewable and Alternative, Renewable Energy Supplies, Green News

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday called for a global fund worth $100 billion a year to tackle climate change in the developing world, ahead ...

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Govt Sells $9 Million In Leases To Geothermal Developers

wsj.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alternate Energy, Renewable Energies, Alternate-Energy-Sources, Alternative Resources, Evolving Energy Tech, Geothermal, Renewable Energy, Geothermal Energy, Green Energy, Geothermal Generated Electricity, Future of Geothermal Energy, Green News

The U.S. Department of Energy said Tuesday that a federal auction of land leases tied to geothermal power development has generated more than $9 milli...

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Is America Ready To Quit Coal?

New York Times | MELANIE WARNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alternate Energy, Green Energy, Coal, Quitting Coal, Green News

Last May, protesters took over James E. Rogers's front lawn in Charlotte, N.C., unfurling banners declaring "No new coal" and erecting a makeshift "gr...

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