Friday, March 5th, 2010
For awhile now our choices for electric vehicles has been very limited but that is all about to change very soon with 6 new electric cars being debuted.
Now, that doesn’t mean these are your only other 6 new all electric vehicle options, but they are the most recent cars that are still in concept form. [...]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
The popularity of “Cash for Clunkers” has certainly died out (with questionable success) but that doesn’t mean that the U.S. Federal government and local state governments aren’t eager to apply this concept to other consumer products.
Many government officials and experts really believe that the quickest and most economical way to reduce our energy and fossil [...]
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
The airline industry has made a lot of progress in trying to Go Green recently and even the U.S. Air Force is making a lot of progress with algae-based biofuels. The latest announcement comes from British Airways and their new biofuel facility.
British Airways has recently announced plans to develop a new form of waste-to-energy landfill [...]
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Norway had shocked many with the announcement of their ambitious emission reduction goals leading into Copenhagen, but recently Norwegian officials have finally released the outline to meet Norway’s ambitious reduction goals.
Prior to Copenhagen, Norway announced that they would reduce their carbon emissions by 30% by 2020. This was more ambitious than any other developed nation [...]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Now that there has been a few days to really dissect the Obama Administration’s 2011 U.S. Federal Budget, we find that there is some good news for clean technology.
Even though at first glance the major headlines of the 2011 budget showed an increase to $54 Billion in loan guarantees for nuclear power and an extremely flimsy [...]
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
Secretary Chu of the U.S. Department of Energy (D.O.E.) announced today the closing of a $1.4 billion loan for Nissan to develop their new all-electric Leaf in the U.S.
The loan was a part of the U.S. Advanced Technology Vehicle Loan Program and was originally set for $1.6 billion.
The funds will be used to develop and [...]
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
The global package delivery company UPS isn’t just answering the question; “What can Brown do for you?” It is also answering the question; “What can Brown do for Green?”
UPS has just added 245 more compressed natural gas (CNG) delivery trucks to its massive worldwide fleet. The new trucks grow UPS’s Green fleet to 1,900 alternatively [...]
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Given enough time and determination, many of today’s Green Businesses are proving that any Green Innovation can be developed and produced. The latest Green Innovation is currently under construction in the United Kingdom (U.K.) and is an initial step in helping the maritime shipping industry reduce its carbon footprint.
B9 Energy might be a name some [...]
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
The 2010 North American International Auto Show started this week in Detroit, Michigan on much more up-beat and forward looking vision compared to last year’s expo.
This year’s show is definitely looking ahead to better economic times but the automotive manufacturers are not forgetting their Green commitments. In fact, this is one of the “greenest” auto [...]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
It has taken awhile, but the shipping industry is finally beginning to test new green technologies on their ocean-going vessels.
Shipping is responsible for about 3% of the world’s carbon emissions since these massive vessels use large amounts of diesel gas to power some of the world’s largest engines. For a long time it was hard [...]
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