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  • September 2008

    • Contest Offers $25K for Best 'Crazy Green' Scheme

      CNET  |  Sep 11, 08 2:44 AM CDT

      Contest Offers $25K for Best 'Crazy Green' Scheme

      (Newser) - The X Prize Foundation is at it again, this time with a new eco-challenge offering $25,000 for the best “crazy green idea” to stop global warming, reports CNET. The organization, famous for its high-stakes engineering contests, is looking for breakthrough ideas in energy and housing. Proposals must be presented in two-minute concept videos, and posted on YouTube by October 31. More »

    • German Power Plant Tests Underground CO2 Capture

      Der Spiegel  |  Sep 10, 08 10:28 AM CDT

      German Power Plant Tests Underground CO2 Capture

      (Newser) - Germany is pioneering industrial efficiency with a new coal-fueled power plant that captures and stores its own CO2 emissions, Der Spiegel reports. The Bavarian power station began testing its system of collecting carbon dioxide and pumping it into a depleted underground natural gas reservoir. A few problems remain, though. More »

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      Germany  • carbon dioxide  • green energy  • power plant  • carbon dioxide emissions  • clean coal

  • August 2008

    • Eco-Waste, Water Plans Aid Kenya's Poor

      Associated Press  |  Aug 24, 08 5:03 PM CDT

      Eco-Waste, Water Plans Aid Kenya's Poor

      (Newser) - Sewage and sunlight are offering unexpected aid to the poor of Kenyan slums, the AP reports. Public toilets are recycling waste into gas, while sunlight disinfects water and reduces cases of waterborne illness. Adapted from a plan in Tanzania, the project was funded by international donors to help people struggling with high coal and food prices. More »

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      Kenya  • biofuel  • green energy  • solar power  • Kenya's economy

  • July 2008

    • Gore Pounds Pols on Energy Plan

      MSNBC  |  Jul 20, 08 4:13 PM CDT

      Gore Pounds Pols on Energy Plan

      (Newser) - Al Gore made his first appearance on Meet the Press since he sought the presidency 8 years ago, Politico reports, this time pushing his agenda as the nation's self-appointed energy czar. "My own best role is to try to bring about a sea change in public opinion" on environmental issues, he said, following a Thursday speech in which he called for a switch to 100% renewable energy sources by 2018. "Incremental baby steps are no longer responsible proposals." More »

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      Al Gore  • renewable energy  • Meet the Press  • oil companies  • green energy  • fossil fuel

    • Keeping Cool Gets Thriftier

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 15, 08 11:22 AM CDT

      Keeping Cool Gets Thriftier

      (Newser) - As fuel costs, and eco-guilt, creep upward, Americans are leaving the thermostat high or kicking air conditioning altogether this summer, the Wall Street Journal reports. Some two-thirds of families are reducing air-conditioning use, a poll finds, as power plants raise prices as much 30% to keep up with natural-gas hikes. Meanwhile, people are getting creative to keep cool. More »

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      environment  • green technology  • green energy  • summer  • heat  • air conditioning

    • Toyota to Add Solar Panels to Prius

      Reuters  |  Jul 7, 08 9:46 AM CDT

      Toyota to Add Solar Panels to Prius

      (Newser) - Toyota plans to go even more “green” with its hybrid Prius, offering solar panels as a high-end option beginning with the 2009 model year, reports Reuters. And, although the panels will do little more than help power the air conditioning system, Toyota’s move shows just how far automakers are willing to go to engineer greener vehicles. More »

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      gas prices  • Toyota  • Toyota Prius  • green energy  • solar panels

  • June 2008

    • Ten Steps to Greener Sex

      Green Daily  |  Jun 26, 08 11:32 AM CDT

      Ten Steps to Greener Sex

      (Newser) - Eco-conscious sex certainly doesn't have too enticing a ring to it, but don't discount the enjoyable ways to spice things up while doing your part to save the Earth, says Greendaily.com. From the reasonable to the wacky, they've got you, er, covered: Grab French Letter condoms, the world's only fair trade rubber Clean your place—add eco-friendly mood lighting More »

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      green technology  • green energy  • safe sex  • green products  • sex toys  • sexy costumes  • sexual revolution  • Heidi Fleiss

    • McMansions Make Way for Green Pads

      New York Times  |  Jun 22, 08 8:41 PM CDT

      McMansions Make Way for Green Pads

      (Newser) - When it comes to building green, a LEED rating is the ultimate cachet-- but they're tough to get, the New York Times reports. And homes approved by the Leadership in Energy and Evironmental Design council tend to be small and pricey, with one platinum-certified four-bedroom house in California on the market for $2.8 million. Still, cities and homebuilders alike are jumping on the bandwagon. More »

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      environmentalism  • architecture  • green energy  • green  • green home  • green building  • green construction

  • May 2008

    • Billions Wasted in UN Carbon Program: Study

      Guardian (UK)  |  May 26, 08 3:38 AM CDT

      Billions Wasted in UN Carbon Program: Study

      (Newser) - Billions of dollars spent to encourage developing nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions are being wasted on projects that don't qualify, according to two new studies of the UN's carbon credit program. The Kyoto agreement arranges for wealthy countries unable to meet emission reductions to instead subsidize green energy projects in developing countries. But the fund is routinely abused by energy companies in developing countries improperly claiming emission reduction credits. More »

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      United Nations  • carbon emissions  • clean energy  • green energy  • Kyoto Protocol  • carbon trading  • Kyoto treaty

  • April 2008

    • Car Talk Bros Get Animated, Dis Gas-Guzzling Heaps

      Newsweek  |  Apr 20, 08 4:50 AM CDT

      Car Talk Bros Get Animated, Dis Gas-Guzzling Heaps

      (Newser) - NPR’s chuckling Car Talk guys Tom and Ray Magliozzi are about to become even more animated—with a new cartoon series of themselves on PBS. But their view on the heaps they've helped drivers patch up for the past 30 years isn't so funny, Newsweek reports. Click and Clack's other new PBS project is a Nova special packed with alarming statistics about cars' devastating impact on the environment. More »

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      television  • gas  • hybrid car  • green energy  • vehicle emissions  • PBS  • auto  • mpg  • NPR

  • December 2007

    • Energy Bill Passes House

      Reuters  |  Dec 18, 07 2:31 PM CST

      Energy Bill Passes House

      (Newser) - The House approved a broad energy bill today that will increase fuel efficiency requirements for cars and trucks for the first time in 30 years and will boost ethanol production, Reuters reports. The bill, passed last week by the Senate after $13 billion in oil company taxes were excised, carried handily, 314-100. President Bush is expected sign it into law tomorrow . More »

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      George W. Bush  • Congress  • ethanol  • fuel efficiency  • green energy  • energy bill

    • UK Proposes Wind Power Investment

      BBC  |  Dec 11, 07 12:22 PM CST

      UK Proposes Wind Power Investment

      (Newser) - The UK intends to boost their production of wind power 60-fold by 2020, under plans released yesterda by business secretary John Hutton, the BBC reports. The secretary proposed an investment into the construction of 7,000 mostly off-shore wind turbines to produce a target of 33 gigawatts that could "power the equivalent of all of the UK's homes." The UK currently produces 2.2 gigawatts from mostly on-shore wind power. More »

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      Great Britain  • renewable energy  • green energy

    • San Francisco Gases Up, Goes Green

      New York Times  |  Dec 6, 07 4:26 PM CST

      San Francisco Gases Up, Goes Green

      (Newser) - San Francisco may have the biggest green fleet in America now that all 1,500 diesel vehicles—including ambulances, fire engines, buses and street sweepers—run on B20, a combination of soy-based and diesel fuels. The transformation is part of the city's plan to  reduce toxic emissions to 20% below 1990 levels in the next four years, the New York Times reports. More »

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      San Francisco  • biofuel  • green energy  • Gavin Newsom  • diesel  • biodiesel

  • November 2007

    • Gore Joins VC to Invest in Green

      CNN  |  Nov 12, 07 3:23 PM CST

      Gore Joins VC to Invest in Green

      (Newser) - Al Gore is joining Silicon Valley's leading venture capital firm in an initiative to invest in green technology. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, traditionally focused on IT, recently moved into the area of environmentally friendly businesses. Gore will be an active partner with the firm, which has already invested $270 million in sustainable ventures, reports Fortune . More »

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      environment  • Al Gore