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Local government and business initiative are pushing onwards with the development of ecocities (or sustainable cities) as a viable alternative, and they're rapidly becoming the trendiest new place to lay down your roots!

In the drive to improve the nation's energy efficiency and reduce demand for dirty coal and foreign oil, utilities around the country have implemented programs that reward their customers for saving electricity.

Google has put a slew of hybrids and plug-ins to the test with real drivers on real roads. And it's uploading the results right now, straight from each car's laptop and wireless data card to this website, using a home-grown methodology.

Wal-Mart has taken a bad rap the last several years for being environmentally and socially unconsious. It represents all that has gone wrong with commercialism, right? Maybe not. Wal-mart might actually be a leader for a people-centered form of environmentalism.

There is a mystique surrounding these beautiful Japanese rock gardens, aka Zen gardens, that originated in the Japanese culture hundreds of years ago.

The price of corn reached a record $5.795 a bushel last week in Chicago as a result of U.S. mandates promoting ethanol production. That has pushed the price of feed for its chickens too high for Pilgrim's Pride Corp., the world's biggest poultry processor, which announced last week it would close a chicken plant in Siler City, North Carolina as a result.

This everyday event was made special by the boat Horie used, called the Suntory Mermaid II. The vessel, which resembles a catamaran, will cross the Pacific using only the power of the waves.