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Ideas to green your home

April 16, 2010

Our homes are a good place to start when it comes to adopting a greener lifestyle. They consume copious amounts of energy, produce a hell of a lot of trash and may include toxic materials in its building. Nasty, right? Technorati Tags: Electricity generation, Energy, Feed-in Tariff, Money, Renewable energy, saving electricity, Sustainable energy, Technology, [...]

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Report says wind power capacity grew in 2009

March 19, 2010

The World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) said in a report released earlier this month that worldwide wind power capacity reached 159’213MW in the period. 38’312 MW were added in 2009. Technorati Tags: Electricity generation, Energy, Italy, Renewable, United States, Wind, Wind power, World Wind Energy Association Related Posts:Happy World Environment DaySwitching to renewable energyIdeas to [...]

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Solar energy’s latest find: glitter-sized PV cells

January 4, 2010

Talk about sparkling ideas … Technorati Tags: Crystalline silicon, Electricity generation, Energy, photovoltaic, Renewable, Sandia National Laboratories, Solar, Solar power Related Posts:Non-profit takes solar-powered mobile technology to developing worldGermans predict solar energy market expansionSolar power: the future, the present and the pastMIT offers course on solar powerReport says wind power capacity grew in 2009

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Denmark leads wind power ranking in Europe

December 4, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Denmark has some cool green data to brag about during the COP15 summit which it is hosting in December. The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has published a table revealing which European countries are best tapping into wind power in order to reduce carbon emissions. Denmark is topping the league with 73.8 [...]

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Food scraps become electricity and new solar cell coating technology

November 9, 2009

To kick off the week, I’d like to point you to a couple of stories that have called our attention this Monday. The first is about an initiative carried out by the East Bay Municipal Utility District, which provides water and wastewater treatment in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area. The company is “turning food [...]

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