Alternative Fuels

Gassing Up With Garbage

New York Times | Matthew L. Wald | Posted 08.02.2008 | Green


After years of false starts, a new industry selling motor fuel made from waste is getting a big push in the United States, with the first commercial s...

Electric Cars Take Over: 17 Electric Cars You Must Know About

Treehugger | Michael Graham Richard | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green


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British Airways, Rolls Royce to Test Alternative Airline Fuels

ENN | Posted 07.22.2008 | Home


Starting next year, the Rolls-Royce Group and British Airways hope to test up to four airplane fuel alternatives to kerosene. The companies are askin...

Shell Opens Hydrogen Station In Los Angeles

NPR | Celeste Headlee | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green


Click to listen. There's a Shell gas station in West Los Angeles where you can fill up with hydrogen instead of gasoline. Shell began the pilot proje...

Big Butt Oil: Cars Could Run On Liposuctioned Fat

AlterNet | Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green


Everyone talks about our terrible dependency on oil -- foreign and otherwise -- but hardly anyone mentions what it is. Fossil fuel, all right, but who...

Building a New Eco-Economy in Oklahoma

Amber Valletta | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green


Amber Valletta

The possibilities are infinite for building a new eco-economy in Oklahoma, but we are facing one major obstacle: Senator Jim Inhofe.

Obama's Ethanol Support Shared By Many Advisers

New York Times | Larry Rohter | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green


When VeraSun Energy inaugurated a new ethanol processing plant last summer in Charles City, Iowa, some of that industry's most prominent boosters show...