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Enviros approve next generation coal plant

By melissalott | Published: April 20, 2010
Success for clean coal with enviros approval of next gen coal plant? On Friday, Amanda wrote a piece on new technology that might make carbon capture and sequestration economically viable in the near-term. Yesterday’s announcement by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and  Tenaska Inc. show the importance of this type of win for the future of [...]
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Who Killed the Electric Car?

By AKB | Published: September 24, 2009
You know when you see a really good movie and you get all pumped up about it and can’t stop telling people about it? You say stuff like “No, seriously- you need to watch this” and “It’s really interesting.” I’m not going to do that. I try not to recommend things too often, but this [...]
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The Next Big Green Thing: LED Lighting

By ADC | Published: June 8, 2009
Buckingham Palace is doing it and so are US cities like Ann Arbor and Raleigh. All these cities are installing LED lighting, that is. The New York Times article “Green Promise Seen in Switch to LED Lighting” and a blog post from the Times website discuss the potential benefits and some downfalls of LED lighting. [...]
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CFLs and Mercury

By AKB | Published: June 3, 2009
There’s been a lot of backlash to the CFL (Compact Fluorescent Lamp) movement recently. Why? Mercury. CFLs contain small amounts of mercury. When these bulbs  reach the end of their lives (on average 5 or more years – 10 times that of incandescent bulbs), they usually end up in the trash. On the way to [...]
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