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7 Great Weekend Solar Power Projects 25 Jun 2009 IN TECH & TRANSPORT \| COMMENTS Looking for a fun project to take on this weekend? Looking to improve your skills with solar? We have some suggestions to accomplish both of these to-do items, ranging from quick, cheap and easy to rather involved but still pretty cheap and easy. + READ MORE	{ }
Greensburg Season 2, Episode 1: The Future is Now 17 Jun 2009 IN GREENSBURG \| COMMENTS Greensburg comes together for the groundbreaking of a sustainable school.The kids start a new "green" project recycling tornado debris.Trick or treating in a town with few homes turns Halloween into a special event on Main Street.+ READ MORE	{ }
Are You at Risk From Wind Turbine Syndrome? 14 Jun 2009 IN FOOD & HEALTH \| COMMENTS Wind power seems like a pretty good idea. Throw up a bunch of windmills and their blades spin around and generate energy. The biggest benefit, of course, is that wind turbines don't generate the greenhouse gases that coal plants do, and they don't leave behind radioactive waste like nuclear power...+ READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Utility-Interactive 1 Jun 2009 IN TECH & TRANSPORT \| COMMENTS In a way, we're talking about another form of hybrid here. A utility-interactive system "interacts with the utility grid (mains), taking power from the grid to satisfy its loads as necessary, and returning power to the grid when not required by the loads."+ READ MORE	{ }
Obama's Posse Says: Paint Your Roof White 27 May 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN \| COMMENTS I’ve always pined for the cool, energy-reflecting white-washed roofs and buildings infamous on the Greek isles like Santorini and Mykonos. So when news broke yesterday that the Obama administration wants to paint U.S. roofs all white, I was all ears. + READ MORE	{ }
Green Glossary: Wind Farm 25 May 2009 IN TECH & TRANSPORT \| COMMENTS This lyrical—even magical—term evokes images of children's book or sci-fi books but a wind farm is "a cluster of wind turbines (up to several hundred) set up in areas where there is a nearly steady prevalent wind, either on land or offshore." In our increasingly green society, the idea...+ READ MORE	{ }
How Much Coal Gets Wasted In the Process of Making Energy? 15 May 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT \| COMMENTS Imagine that a chunk of coal's got 100 units of energy. Out of those 100 units, 98 get lost on the way to powering your light bulb. A whopping 2 end up as light. Not exactly efficient. So what happens to our theoretical energy units?+ READ MORE	{ }
Stock Up on Biodiesel: Now Hundreds of Fueling Stations Across the US 7 May 2009 IN TECH & TRANSPORT \| COMMENTS So you converted your car to run on biodiesel. You're ready to take your newly greened beauty on a road trip across the country on its virgin run. Problem is, you're not so sure where exactly you can buy biodiesel.+ READ MORE	{ }
Discover Greensburg: The Future is Now 30 Apr 2009 IN GREENSBURG \| AWESOME! We have been waiting for this! COOL! I wasn't sure if Greensburg was going... +FULL COMMENT	{ }
Keep Tabs on the Green Projects in the Stimulus Bill 28 Apr 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT \| COMMENTS Okay, so the stimulus has a crap-ton of green projects in it. You know that, you get it. There's solar and wind projects, waste management, there are going to be green jobs, blah, blah, blah. All of these are undoubtedly great things, but you've probably read the phrase "green jobs" more than Steven...+ READ MORE	{ }

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