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It's essentially Netflix meets Toys R Us! Fablous idea to avoid clutter, cut down on non recycleable plastics, promote reuseage and save the earth!

Wind power has gained a lot of popularity over the last few years. We've seen mega-watt wind installations through out the world, the development of wind co-ops, and a flurry of small and micro wind turbines released to the residential market. Most of these small and micro turbines are expensive and don't generate enough energy to be cost effective.

What happens when you recycle, compost, or craig's list all your trash and no longer need (or want to pay for) city trash service? If you live in San Carlos, CA, you can expect a lawsuit from the city.

I received an environmental petition in the mail the other day. I assumed it was from one of the environmental organizations, such as Union of Concerned Scientists, which regularly sends me petitions.

Traditionally, up to 25,000 plastic water bottles are given out during Olympus Fashion Week at Bryant Park. But this year, in an effort to "green" the show, participants will be given reusable liter-sized non-toxic aluminum water bottles which have been specially prepared backstage and hold nothing but the finest NYC tap water.

While it's a noble cause to use green technology to save the planet, it's even better to use this same technology to save the lives of those who inhabit the planet. That's exactly what Jewish World Watch Solar Cooker Program is doing for the women of Darfur.

Masdar City, the world first zero-carbon city, will look strikingly different from today's urban hubs. There will be no sky scrapers or cars. Instead, the city will consist of low-rises lined with solar panels to take advantage of the near-constant sunshine. It's 50,000 residents will move around the 2.4 square miles of the city a series of transport pods which function much like horizontal elevators.

Now teenagers can spend their summer vacation growing organic fruits and vegetables, setting up a water harvesting systems, creating habitats for threatened species, brewing biodiesel, making and using compost, and living in structures that tread lightly on the earth's natural resources.

Until now, Solar power was used to create energy two ways: photovoltaics or solar-thermal. Thanks to Nanoptek's new experimental technology, solar energy may soon be used to generate Hydrogen, which in turn can power Hydrogen fuel cells. Scientists believe it is the first successful method of producing carbon-free Hydrogen.

The Dow Jones Financial News recently called 2008 "the year to forget" and with the credit crunch from the sub-prime mortgage crisis, even politicians are talking about recession--something practically unheard of in an election year.

The green wave has put a lot of pressure on the American auto industry to to build greener cars. Ever-increasing vehicle sizes with shrinking gas mileage figures make Detroit look like our least green industry. What most Americans don't know, is that end-of-life vehicles are the most recycled product in America by volume and percentage. More than 95% of end-of-life vehicles are recycled without added costs or taxes for consumers.

Pulling something out of thin air may sound like magic, but a team of scientists at New Mexico's Sandia National Laboratory are closer to atomic surgeons. They are developing a prototype which uses solar energy to recycle carbon dioxide and produce liquid solar fuel.

The Sanyo Ark, created by Sanyo, is an attempt at making renewable energy athsetically pleasing. Standing 120 feet tall and 1,000 feet wide, the Sanyo Ark is lined with 5,000 solar panels and can generate up to 500,000 kWh of green energy. While they get kudos for using green energy in a creative way, but is it really athsetically pleasing?

Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems have developed a small maintenance-free water desalination plants that run on solar power. The plants will produce almost forty gallons of clean water each day - enough water for fifteen people living in the arid parts of Africa and Asia where there are no utility grids.

The majority of Americans aren't lucky enough to live in places where its easy to harvest solar power but that doesn't mean you can't cash in and foster solar energy somewhere else in the United States.