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Careers in Renewable Energy: Get a Green Energy Job

Numerous job opportunities await in the fast-growing field of renewable energy. Grab this handy book and discover how green energy can be a part of your future. Job sectors include solar and wind energy, biofuels, hydrogen ene...
Robert Llewellyn's Gearless Update: Reviewing the MiEV ...
Image credit: Gearless I was quite excited the other day to learn about Robert Llewellyn's Gearless show in which he will be driving and reviewing a Mitsubishi MiEV over the course of an entire year. (Robert previously filmed a test drive of the MiEV...
From: TreeHugger | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Solar-Powered iPhone Battery Case: Apple Approves
Solar power combined with fancy-looking cases? The perfect storm for getting an end-of-the-week mention on the Gadget Lab. Today its the turn of the Novothink Solar Surge, an iPhone and iPad Touch case with a solar panel and a lithium-ion polymer battery....
From: Wired | By: Charlie Sorrel | Friday, March 12, 2010
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World Crude Oil Production Projected to Peak a Decade Sooner ...
Source: iStock Photo via American Chemical Society. Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com's Naturally Green section. Alternative energy efforts received a bit of a boon this week from a study published...
From: TreeHugger | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Jane Goodall: wild at heart
It has been 50 years since the scientist turned eco-evangelist began her seminal work with chimpanzees in Africa. But, writes Stephen Moss, her work is far from finished.Jane Goodall, grey in complexion but resplendent in a red shawl, is sitting on the...
From: China Dialogue | By: Stephen Moss | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Viewpoints: Broad national vision can patch potholes in ...
James CorlessTwo events in Washington, D.C., last week carried important implications for every Californian who relies on public transportation or navigates our increasingly rutted highways and besieged bridges. First, a U.S. senator attempted to obstruct...
From: Sacramento Bee | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/12/2010
11 Siberian tigers starve to death at Chinese zoo Eleven Siberian tigers died of starvation in north-eastern China’s Liaoning province after a cash-strapped zoo fed them only chicken bones, state media said Friday. The 11 tigers died over the past...
From: RedMonk | By: Tom Raftery | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Novothink rolls out Solar Surge iPhone / iPod touch charging ...
It's not November '09 as originally promised, but Novothink has now announced that its Solar Surge charging cases for the iPhone and iPod touch are finally available. Those will run $79.95 for the iPhone 3G/3GS version and $69.95 for the iPod touch version...
From: Engadget | By: Donald Melanson | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Nuclear Standoff
As is often the case with tales of great discovery, the details of how buried treasure came to be found beneath the rolling countryside of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, have grown a little gauzy over the last 30 years. But here is the story as the prospectors...
From: The New Republic | By: Andrew Rice | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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After Smart Grids, Smart Sewage? NoMix Toilet Gets Thumbs-Up ...
NoMix Toilet. Photo: Flickr Technological Innovations in the Bathroom? You Bet! Being green is all about solving problems and grabbing overlooked opportunities. It turns out that there's such a double-win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had...
From: TreeHugger | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Is Venezuela flooding an unexplored holy site?
Archeologists may never solve the mysteries of a pre-Columbian indigenous site if Venezuela goes ahead with a plan to create a hydroelectric dam.read more...
From: GlobalPost | By: Charlie Devereux | Friday, March 12, 2010
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“We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What ...
From a speech on health care by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (caught by The Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web). Here’s the context: You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know...
From: Volokh Conspiracy | By: Eugene Volokh | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Leaving Green: Execs Quit Clean Energy Firms
The past week has brought a spate of executive departures at renewable energy start-ups, Green Inc. reports.
From: New York Times | By: DEALBOOK | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Loblaw Launches Four Rooftop Solar Pilot Projects
As part of the company’s effort to reduce its carbon footprint through the use of renewable energy, Loblaw has launched a rooftop solar pilot project at four stores in Ontario –Ajax, Orleans, Toronto and Whitby. The Canadian food distributor has...
From: Environmental Leader | By: Environmental Leader | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Don't Let Lawmakers Undermine the Clean ...
A handful of lawmakers have been trying to block the EPA from regulating pollution. This is largely a political maneuver -- an effort to drain away support for passing a comprehensive clean energy bill.
From: Huffington Post | By: Frances Beinecke | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Richard Branson Greens the Sea With Kites Tied to Freighters ...
The billionaire's new NGO, Carbon War Room, puts the global shipping industry's massive carbon footprint under the spotlight, and spread the word about simple ways to shrink its impact....
From: Digg | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Should We Tax Green Energy?
Last Sunday, the New York Times reported on the wind energy industry in Wyoming (the eighth windiest state) and how the governor is pushing for a tax on wind energy. The wind power lobby has, of course, expressed its horror that the state would consider...
From: Energy Foreign Policy Blog | By: Jodi Liss | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Greener Gadgets 2010 showcases green design, innovation ...
While politicians grapple and stop-start over the growing concern for the welfare of our planet, more of us are wondering what we can do to reduce the size of our carbon footprint at home. This sort of thinking has given rise to the Greener Gadgets 2010...
From: Gizmag | Friday, March 12, 2010
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UPDATE: California OKs Renewable Energy Credits To Meet ...
UPDATE: California OKs Renewable Energy Credits To Meet Mandate...
From: Fox News | By: Cassandra Sweet | Friday, March 12, 2010
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What Does Sustainability Look Like? Photos From Around ...
A market for salvaged goods in Cairo, Egypt. Photograph by David Lazar. What does "sustainability" mean to you? That's the question that JPG Magazine, a publication of reader-submitted photography, posed to members of its online community, who posted...
From: TreeHugger | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Old vs. new: Smart grid and real time electricity metering ...
The new smart electricity meter program should be an easy sell to consumers, but it's not going over as planned....
From: Christian Science Monitor | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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By the Numbers: Walmart wants to reduce greenhouse-gas ...
20 million Metric tons of greenhouse-gas emissions that Walmart plans to eliminate from its global supply chain by the end of 2015. The world's largest retailer collaborated with the Environmental Defense Fund on this effort, which places a significant...
From: Consumer Reports | By: Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Dusty Plasma Based Fission Fragment Nuclear Reactor
Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Dusty Plasma Based Fission Fragment Nuclear Reactor (7 page pdf) We propose an innovative nuclear power generation system design using dusty radioactive (fissile or not)...
From: Next Big Future | By: bw | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Richard Branson Aims to Rock the Boat for Green Shipping ...
The billionaire's new NGO, Carbon War Room, puts the global shipping industry's massive carbon footprint under the spotlight, and spread the word about simple ways to shrink its impact....
From: GreenBiz | By: Marc Gunther | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Executive Departures at Clean Energy Firms
The past week has seen the president of SolarReserve and the chief executives of Clipper Windpower and Aurora Biofuels stepping down.
From: New York Times | By: TODD WOODY | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Body Bags and Toe Tags
I was recently at the DMV with a friend, and realized that he wasn’t registered as a donor. After berating him for not being one, I finally stopped to breathe, and asked him why. As far as I could tell, when I chose to actually listen, he was concerned...
From: Animal New York | By: Kari Ferrell | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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The Footprint Theory of Life
It's not enough to watch your carbon footprint. What about your "iron footprint"? Or your "aluminum footprint"?
From: The New Criterion | By: Zombie | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Five Countries Fall Behind on European Renewable Energy ...
The European Commission said on Thursday that five countries were failing to meet goals for renewable energy but that they could make up their quotas by buying electricity from North Africa and the Balkans.
From: New York Times | By: JAMES KANTER | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Ask an Academic: Blackouts
Everyone, it seems, has a blackout story, a tale of what happened when the power was cut and suddenly everything had changed. Though more than forty years have passed, David E. Nye still remembers...
From: New Yorker | By: Ian Crouch | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Abercrombie to Continue Deep Discounts on ‘Stale Styles’ ...
In increasing desperation to boost sales, Abercrombie has pledged to continue marking prices "down quite significantly" for the first half of the year. Prices in February were down 14 percent, and the chain doesn't care if they lose money as long as...
From: New York Magazine | By: Amy Odell | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Solar Surge iPod and iPhone Cases Are Now Available!
Just in time for sunny spring days, Novothink has announced that its hotly anticipated Solar Surge iPod and iPhone cases have hit the market and are available for sale! We’ve followed these sleek solar cases all the way from their concept renderings,...
From: Inhabitat | By: Mike Chino | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Yaeger: Louis Vuitton Was a Compelling Samba
Chloé, Chanel, Louis Vuitton. What happens when an iceberg collides with a titanic fashion ego? It shows up on the Chanel runway at the Grand Palais in the heart of Paris, where it garners applause from a packed-to- the-rafters audience. A blurry sketch...
From: New York Magazine | By: Lynn Yaeger | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Alternative uses for a hockey stick
Andrew Montford’s “The Hockey Stick Illusion,” reviewed for Prospect by Matt Ridley, tells a story that will undoubtedly worry those who believe that our climate is warming—and infuriate critics (who are legion) of the book’s protagonist, Steve...
From: Prospect Magazine | By: Duncan Brown | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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The Resurgence Of Cap & Trade?
Even as the latest poll tells us that 48% of Americans believe that the seriousness of global warming is generally exaggerated (up from 41% just last year), President Obama and a small band of US Senators are still trying to push expensive job killing...
From: Free Republic | By: TalkingSides.com | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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John Ivison: Ignatieff delivers his dream from the throne ...
Michael Ignatieff gave his reply to the Speech from the Throne in the House of Commons today but it is unlikely to have won over those Liberals  -- three in 10, according to one recent poll --  who would replace him as leader. For the rest of us, there...
From: The National Post | By: NP Editor | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Join the Campaign to Get Facebook to Use 100% Renewable ...
For the next week, your friends’ profile pictures might look a little different on Facebook.  A little greener.  Don’t worry, they’re not sick – they’re just concerned.  They’ve joined Greenpeace’s campaign to get Facebook to ...
From: Green Prophet | By: Karen Chernick | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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The Electric Chainsaw Massacre: Pleatherface on the Rampage ...
Image credit: Funny or Die TreeHugger has covered hand-powered chainsaws before, and even chainsaws lubricated with mushroom spores, but we've never done much on electric chainsaws. I'm thinking we should get something up soon though, before Pleatherface...
From: TreeHugger | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Uranium and Specialty Metals: A Few of My Favorite Things, ...
Uranium – One of the best investments you can make right now is to pick up relatively secure, low-cost uranium – the feedstock for nuclear reactors. The demand for uranium is building in intensity like a heap of hot coals. There are already 436 reactors...
From: The Daily Reckoning | By: Chris Mayer | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Home Star Gets A Hearing: Is It Really A Win-Win-Win?
Ah, Home Star – the legislative proposal that has eaten all my time over the last six months.  What more is there to say?  Creates jobs!…Slashes energy use!…Saves money! All of that was said today and...
From: Natural Resources Defense Council | By: Lane Burt | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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The proliferation business: Unstoppable?
The illicit nuclear trade flourishes because governments let itPeddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America’s Enemies. By David Albright. Free press; 304 pages; $27. Buy from Amazon.comEVER since the atom was split, governments have struggled...
From: The Economist | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Zoo Explores Poop Power and Insulation to Cut Carbon
Image credit: 10:10 Campaign/Michele Turton Paignton Zoo in the UK has already hit the headlines for exploring vertical farming to feed its animals. Now the zoo will be recycling the nutrients from that animal feed to power itself. That's right, Paignton...
From: TreeHugger | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Worry, Be Happy
Fear, guilt and shame often push people into coping behaviors, which ease the momentary pain, even as they hurt long-term. Smoking, for instance. Or binge-drinking. And one path to fear, guilt and shame is to hear that your smoking and drinking will...
From: Big Think | By: David Berreby | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Drumbeat: March 11, 2010
The curious story of Chinese oil refining The narrowing gap between current and forward crude oil contract prices in recent weeks has been been widely attributed to two things. OECD oil storage, the story goes, is falling and oil stored at sea is also...
From: The Oil Drum | By: Leanan | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Transonic combustion improves gas engine efficiency Over ...
Conventional gasoline engines are terribly inefficient things. Only 13% of the energy of the fuel actually moves the car. 62% is lost in the engine as waste heat, and driveline losses, accessories, and idling also reduce the efficiency. Transonic Combustion...
From: Yahoo Green | By: Philip Proefrock | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Conservation can lead to destruction
Forest conservation project in Bolivia proves that unless a nation as a whole cuts deforestation, individual carbon offset schemes are worthlessIt is the ultimate greenwash nightmare. A tough international deal to curb emissions of greenhouse gases is...
From: The Guardian | By: Fred Pearce | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Last Call for Israeli Clean Tech Companies: Meet Dream ...
If you were an aspiring actor, it would be like getting an invitation to a wine and cheese Hollywood party with the industry’s top directors. Or an aspiring chef, getting some in-person training with Le ...
From: Green Prophet | By: Karin Kloosterman | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Today's Climate: March 12, 2010
Japan's Cabinet Endorses Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill (Bloomberg) Japan's Cabinet has endorsed a climate draft law today that would cap industrial emissions and thrust the second-biggest economy into the $125 billion market for trading carbon credits....
From: Solve Climate | By: SolveClimate Staff | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Year of the Tiger
In the Chinese zodiac this is the Year of the Tiger. The previous years of the same appellation are said to have been fraught with controversy and even conflict. Tradition says calm and balance is certainly not to be expected. Contrary to earlier reports,...
From: The American Spectator | By: George H. Wittman | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Australian Solar Shines in 2009
RENWABLEENERGYWORLD - Despite the global financial crisis, the Australian solar power industry grew a phenomenal 366% in 2009. Driven by a rebate that enabled "free" solar power systems to be sold, installations of grid connected solar power systems...
From: Solarplaza | Friday, March 12, 2010
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The South Jersey jihadist
This one hits close to home. I grew up in Absecon, New Jersey and attended Holy Spirit High School. Our sports teams competed against Buena High School, which al Qaeda-linked radical Sharif Mobley graduated from before moving to Yemen — where he was...
From: Michelle Malkin | By: Michelle Malkin | Friday, March 12, 2010
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A 3D nanostructure for improved solar-cell efficiency
SPIE - Cost-effective photovoltaic (PV) technologies are the key for large-scale deployment of solar cells capable of producing clean energy. Although conventional planar crystalline PV cells can provide good efficiencies, they are not viable for large-scale...
From: Solarplaza | Friday, March 12, 2010
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