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Tide to Turn Turbines to Generate Power in NYC’s East River
Verdant Power has been testing turbines in New York City's East River, a tidal water body, and has applied to install a full-fledged tidal power plant there. It's good green news for the city -- and for the environment, as the potential of tidal power in the power-source mix is significant. Read More...
Sustainable Energy Connects Remote Lives to the Human Grid
With a quarter of the world's people living without electricity, the rise of low-cost single-panel solar power generators for huts in the remote African and Mongolian countryside herald a completely new and unexpected source of human transformation -- and it's all renewable. Read More...
Saved by the Cavalry: Armed Forces Go Green
Thomas Friedman lays out for us how our armed forces are going to save lives and billions by shifting radically to alternate energy sources, and doing it NOW. Read More...
8 Answers to Electric Car Naysayers
This list from Mother Jones magazine will give you the right dope about why our belated-but-finally-arriving electric cars are the real thing, environmentally speaking. Read More...
Washington, DC Has New, Hot Bike Share Program
Washinton, D.C. has a publicly funded, reasonably priced and well-run bike-share program, with 52 thousand uses in the first seven weeks. Read More...
Texas Taking the Lead in Encouraging Electric Vehicles
Not just the green town of Austin, but many urban areas of Texas, are making bets on the electric vehicle as the car of their future by subsidizing not only the cars, but the charging stations. Read More...
New iPhone App for Crowdsourcing Water Quality
Using cell phones to enable individuals to provide data about local water sources would make ordinary citizens into instant environmental watchdogs. IBM's new iphone app is doing just that. Read More...