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Millions of Molecules Screened by Volunteers for the Clean Energy Project (You Can Help Too!)

October 5, 2011

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Finding the Organic Solar Needle in the Molecule Haystack
You don’t have to look into a crystal ball to see that solar power has a bright future. But before it can start to really take over a large fraction of our civilization’s el…

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Ask Pablo: Paper or Plastic? Spending Cash vs Credit Cards

October 4, 2011

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Dear Pablo: Is it more sustainable to use cash or credit cards to pay for transactions?

The correlation between consumerism and environmental impact goes without saying but aside from …

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Saving Money With Solar Energy

October 4, 2011

If you have been concerned about the rising energy costs in your area, it might be a good time to look at ways in which you can save money with solar energy. Various areas in the world run on different power sources, which most of these sources being problematic in some way. The main problem is that even energy sources that are renewable use some sort of oil power to maintain them. This auto…

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Opposition to Vermont Wind Farm Comes From Former Wildlife Department Commissioner

September 29, 2011

Simulation of a section of the project, from 2.7 miles away: Kingdom Community Wind

Some well spoken and well meaning opposition to a wind power project in northeastern Vermont today in the New York Times. At issue is whether the clean electricity th…

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Google Invests an Additional $75 Million in Residential Solar Power

September 28, 2011

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19-Year-Old Improves Solar Power Capacity by 40%

September 27, 2011

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The idea is such a simple one: rotate solar panels to follow the sun throughout the day so they capture the most of the sun’s energy as possible. Solar power tracking systems have been around for some time, but a 19-year-old cl…

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Wind Turbine Noise May Annoy But Causes No Serious Health Problems, New Study Says

September 27, 2011

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This is perhaps not the final word on so-called wind turbine syndrome, but it is one of them. New research published in Environmental Research Letters looked into the effect of low frequency noise from wind turbines on p…

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MacArthur Genius Will Allen Shows Us the Future of Urban Agriculture (Video)

September 26, 2011

Giving Everybody Access to Healthy Food
Many people are called geniuses, but few of them actually get a ‘genius’ prize from the MacArthur Foundation. Will Allen was one of the rare few to be selected, as we wrote about a few years ago, because he’s s…

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More Cool Highlights From Maker Faire New York 2011

September 25, 2011

Gon KiRin, a 20-ft robot dragon jungle gym. Designed by Ryan Doyle & Teddy Lo. Photo by Bonnie Hulkower

The 2nd annual DIY festival Maker Faire took place last weekend at the New York Hall of Science in Queens. Celebrating “arts, crafts, engineering,…

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Maldives Mandates At Least 60% Its Electricity Must Be From Solar Power By 2020

September 22, 2011

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Being among the world’s lowest-lying nations and therefore among the first to most acutely feel the effects of climate change, the Maldives has been in the forefront of climate activism and making as quick a transition as…

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