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Transportation: Piece by Piece
The effects of mobility on life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as concerns about the connection between energy consumption and changing conceptualizations of space and distance, inspired a ...
Greening the GI Bill
Green Collar Vets connects veterans with job training and employment opportunities related to sustainable development and alternative energy. The group encourages participants to use GI Bill funding to enroll in vocational ...
Setting Sail
A recent collaboration between SkySails and the Bremen-based Beluga Group has culminated in the trial transoceanic run of a wind-powered cargo ship. The MS Beluga SkySails left Germany on ...
“The Power to Empower”
Atlanta-based blackEnergy arose from electrical engineer Sonja Ebron's concerns about rising utility rates in African-American communities. Taking advantage of energy deregulation, Ebron organized consumers into groups that bargained collectively with providers, allowing them ...
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Hearth and Home
Three innovative programs use cooking technology as a tool for making education and greener technology more widely available. While all three work to make food preparation more efficiently, each sees development in ...
Red Light, Green Light
Cambridge, Massachusetts, based Ambient Devices relies on a 900 MHz network to provide a constant stream of weather, sports, and financial information to its customers. A product offered by the company uses ...
photovoltaic payback
with solar panels (once again) the craze, a lot of discussion goes into whether they are truly efficient and whether they do the environment any good. most solar cells require a lot ...
rendering opinions
america’s first project off the coast of cape cod is being fought over renderings. wind-industry-backed (with 61% resident support) cape wind produced a set of renderings of how the offshore wind ...
costly disposables
greenpeace is at it again, after successfully bullying apple for its environmental carelessness by ranking it as the worst PC manufacturer in terms of environmental impact (march ‘07) and ...