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The Economic Wind for New Energy Is Stiffening

Anne Butterfield | Posted 10.28.2009 | Denver

Read More: Wind Power, New Energy Economy, Xcel, Green Jobs, Coal Industry, Comanche 3, Boulder, Renewable Energy, Wind Energy, Bill Ritter, Coal, Denver News

Despite a new wind turbine in Boulder, the elephant in the middle of the New Energy Economy is Comanche 3, the 750 megawatt coal plant in Colorado coming online as soon as next month.

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Israelis Bring Green Power To West Bank Village

AP | TIA GOLDENBERG | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Solar Panels, Wind Power, Solar Energy, West Bank, Wind Energy, Israel-Palestine, Green Energy, Wind Turbines, Solar Power, Green News

SUSYA, West Bank — Residents of a West Bank village with no electricity have been helped out of the darkness by unlikely benefactors – a g...

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The Israeli Army Gives Birth To Clean Technologies

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Israel, Clean Energy, Solar Energy, Clean Technology, Military, Army, Wind Energy, Green News

The clean technology industry in Israel is being fueled by military companies and personnel. Agree with the Israel's politics or not, it is good that something green is coming out of the army.

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Misguided: Whitman Wants to Roll Back California Climate Plan

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nrdc, Meg Whitman, Solar Energy, Ab-32, California Legislature, Wind Energy, Climate Change, California, Politics News

Whitman says she would place a moratorium on AB-32 by executive order. It's hard to imagine a more effective way to choke off the burgeoning clean energy economy.

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Green Commercials (VIDEO)

Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Slidepoll, Commercials, Wind Energy, World Wildlife Fund, Green Ads, Advertising, Toyota Prius, Polar Bears, Environmental Ads, Animals, Wwf, Go Green, Video, Green News

We rounded up some cute, clever, and funny green-themed commercials for your viewing pleasure. Watch and tell us which commercial gets its message acr...

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Renewable Energy -- Not in My Backyard!

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Wind Turbine, Wind Energy, Cape Wind, Green Jobs, Climate Change, Cape Cod, Sierra Club, Green News

It seems many people support wind and solar energy so long as it's not in my backyard, and not in my hiking grounds either.

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Green News Report - September 3, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: California burning; Killing wolves; Recycling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch... PLUS: A Fracture in the Clean Coal Coalit...

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Is Wind Power A Catch-22 For Wildlife?

treehugger.com | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Great Plains, Wind Power, Wind Energy, Wind Power Wild Life, Animals, Wildlife, Green News

Earlier this week a new journal article was released that calculated the amount of land needed for energy production under various future energy and c...

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Over $100 Million In Green Energy Funding Coming To Illinois

Crain's Chicago Business | Paul Merrion | Posted 09.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Wind Power, Green Energy Funding, Alternative Energy, Wind Energy, Green Energy, Illinois Wind Power, Sustainability, Green Technology, Chicago News

An Illinois proposal that would use federal stimulus money to jump-start manufacturing of wind turbine components and create other green energy busine...

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UFO Flies Off Wind Turbine -- What The Heck Is It? (VIDEO)

Kevin Grandia | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Turbine, Wind Power, Ufos, Wind Energy, Ufo Wind Turbine, Turbines, Green News

It's obviously not a UFO in the sense of "aliens taking over the world" or anything, but this video shows a rather large weird semi-opaque object fly...

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It's Art... It's Energy... No, It's Both

Joshua Keyak | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Solar Energy, Environment, Green, Earth, Environmentalism, Wind Energy, Green Living, Solar Power, Green News

While large alternative energy plants will be necessary to meet demand, we must also supplement those plans with lots of small scale generation, like this project in Austin, Texas.

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Clean Energy Debate Leads To Regional Divide

nytimes.com | MATTHEW L. WALD | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Congress, Solar, Wind Energy, Green, Wind, Renewable Energy, Green Energy, Solar Energy, Evolving Energy Tech, Climate Change, Globak Warming, Climate Change Bill, Bill, Green News

While most lawmakers accept that more renewable energy is needed on the nation's grid, the debate over the giant climate-change and energy bill now be...

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Stimulus Money May Finally Flow To Green Energy

forbes.com | Brian S. Wesbury and Robert Stein | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Solar Energy, Biomass Energy, Wind Energy, Barack Obama, Evolving Energy Tech, Obama, Green Energy, Green Business, Stimulus, Stimulus Money, Green News

It's been a long time coming, but green energy business are about to get their promised boost from the economic stimulus package that President Obama ...

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Pickens Abandons Plans For Largest Wind Farm

nytimes.com | Kate Galbraith | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, T. Boone Pickens, Oilman, T Boone Pickens, Wind Energy, Pickens, Wind, Wind Turbines, Boone Pickens, T. Boone Pickens Wind Turbines, Green Energy, Green News

T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oilman, has abandoned his plan to build the world's largest wind farm....

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New York City's First Offshore Wind Farm A Reality

treehugger.com | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Wind Power, Long Island, Wind Energy, New York City, Wind Farm, New York News

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Time Is Money -- About Half a Million Dollars a Minute

T. Boone Pickens | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Foreign Oil, T-Boone Pickens, Wind Energy, Oil, Green Energy, War on Terror, Oil Dependence, Green News

We pay for both sides of the War on Terror, and we've been doing so for decades. That's got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of.

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Alternative Energy: Rebirth of Our Economic Engine in the Wind

Patricia Martin | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Wind Energy, Clean Energy, American Wind Energy Association, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, Wind Power Expo., Chicago News

Clean energy is not just a pop-up solution. If a town or city wants clean energy, it needs to invest in the equipment and maintenance to make it so. Hence, energy is politicized commodity, in which citizens have a big stake.

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Green News Report - April 23, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Welcome aboard to our latest new affiliate station - KRXA 540am in beautiful Monterey, CA! IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama in Iowa for Earth Day whil...

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Obama's Earth Day Energy Declaration: California May Be The Model He Says, But It's Not Enough

William Bradley | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

For those who think that it's too hard to build an economy without pursuing the old course on energy, Obama pointed to California, the world's seventh largest economy.

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WV House Committee Gag Order: No Stinkin' Green Jobs or Responsible Mining Debate!

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Rick Thompson, Coal, Wind Energy, Green Jobs, West Virginia, Sarah Palin, Renewable Energy, Big Coal, Coal Tattoo, Robert Byrd, Mountaintop Removal, Coal River Wind, Green News

West Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Rick Thompson and a handful of House Rules Committee members have just blocked a resolution for the development of a nationally acclaimed industrial wind farm.

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Ten Things to Consider Before we Start Building Nuclear Plants in Illinois Again

Jimmy Seidita | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green

The 1987 moratorium on new nuclear plants in Illinois signaled that going nuclear was a huge mistake. It's made a mess of our electric system, our regulatory system, and worst of all, the state's economy.

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America's Wind Power Imperative: A Call to Action

Tom Weis | Posted 04.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Climate Change, Wind Energy, Clean Coal Myth, Green News

One of the few bright spots in today's struggling economy, wind power holds the promise of sparking a new economic renaissance for America.

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In Light of Green Revolution, VA Attempts First Wind-Powered Execution

Lee Camp | Posted 04.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Wind Power, Wind Energy, Wind Farms, Satire, Comedy News

The state of Virginia is leading the way to a new, greener economy for the country. The first ever wind-powered executions were attempted Tuesday in Roanoke.

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Live from DC - The Energy Summit

Jack Hidary | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green

While clean energy broadly speaking is on the table, the summit is mainly focused on power transmission -- how do you get solar, wind and other renewables to the grid?

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Dear Obama and Gov. Manchin: Act on Coal River Crisis

Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Coal, Carol Browner, Renewable Energy, George Washington, Martin Luther King, Mountaintop Removal, Black History Month, Stephen Chu, Big Coal, Civil Disobedience, Barack Obama, Wind Energy, Joe Manchin, Epa, Lisa Jackson, Green News

The mechanization of above-ground mountaintop removal has prevented a diverse economy and led to a decrease in coal mining jobs in some of the highest poverty stricken strip-mining areas.

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