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A new method of geo-engineering involving the use of lime could return atmospheric CO2 to pre-industrial levels.

Dakota Wind Energy, based in South Dakota, has announced a major development underway for which it is offering up securities to the public (though only in SD) who will open up their land and grant wind-related rights to them.

On our way to cheaper LEDs, can't wait to actually get some at a decent price!

Researchers at Penn State have figured out a way to create hydrogen with no use of carbon, other than that used in the production of the materials... a major leap forward.

In a move that’s a first for Australia, the Yang Power Station, a coal-fired facility located in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, has captured CO2 directly from the flue gases.

Wow, cool! Velcro solar panels and part of a 10 MW installation!

Despite intensive lobbying from the airline industry in Europe, the EU parliament voted 96% for the industry to be included in the Carbon trading program.

Very cool! Toyota will start putting solar panels on their Prius!

Neat rubber tube could provide 1 megawatt of power sitting under the surface of the ocean...cheaply.

Cool company is trying to plant a tree (well actually 1.3 trees!) for every book you buy! You can also get trees planted for all your existing books too.

Brazil beginning to sell 30 million gallons of SUSTAINABLE ethanol to Sweden.

New national standards could bring down cost of LED lights drastically.

At the end of 2007, China had only slightly over 4 gigawatts (GW) of of installed wind turbines, but they are on track to hit and surpass 10 GW by the end of the year, and double that to 20 GW over the next 2 years.

I was disgusted this morning to see the “news” on yahoo’s main page, with the headline of “Most dangerous kind of car on the road?” and “These cars are invisible.” Here's a little debunking for you.

As strange as it may sound, the process that brings you your morning cup of coffee has the potential to increase the actual energy value of biomass, netting up to a 20% increase.

I can't believe the US Supreme Court let off Exxon so easily! The company makes over $1 billion a day and yet the court's decision shows that "non-economic" sea life has little value and will not be compensated. This is crazy!

Generally we associate Toyota with car manufacturing, but the reality is that Toyota is a massive company that has its hands in aerospace, financial services, education, and even growing flowers. It’s the last of those endeavors that has attracted some recent attention because the Japanese giant is using waste C02 to help plant growth in their Floritech Co. operations.

Seaweed may be used in next generation biofuels as it produced more oil than rapeseed and palm, with no fresh water or land needed!

Interesting quotes from Jacques Cousteau's bio and final book, which are ever more pertinent in our current times.

With the growing concern over farmland being used to produce crops that will be refined into biofuels instead of food, researchers at the Carnegie Institute of Science have studied the potential for abandoned agricultural and pasture land to be used instead, and to see what that might mean for our bioenergy needs

A lot has been going on recently in Germany when it comes to solar, from various companies investing heavily in photovoltaics, to the government's shrinking solar subsidy, but this weekend the small town of Marburg passed a law that will require all new houses

By using the more 'controversial' methods of hypermiling alone, I was able to increase my fuel efficiency by 38%!!!

Due to the increasing cost of petroleum, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has had to cancel at least 4 voyages, and its cutting down the length of others. They are trying to figure out what missions they can and cannot run, and all of it comes down to fueling their fleet.

Incredible new green museum set to open in San Francisco this fall.

If you want to be depressed about the deforestation that is going on around the world, then Google’s got the ticket for you.

Powering the grid with renewable energies is a great idea that we’d love to see, and we’d love even more to see coal, oil, and natural gas-fired power plants (and nukes too) close up their doors for good. Unfortunately, the largest of these renewable energies cannot be relied upon to produce electricity around the clock.

Toyota has announced that they have a very good problem: they are selling so many hybrid vehicles that they can barely keep up with the demand for the batteries that go in them.

Imagine the city of the future, now imagine that it’s the coolest city ever, because, well, it is. PopSci has put together what is probably the most comprehensive model of a futuristic city which utilizes green technologies and we have to say, it’s awesome.

When it comes to electric cars and fuel cell cars, we tend to wait around for a while, always being promised something that is just the little bit further into the future. Today, however, we have something firmly in hand. Honda has announced this morning that they have begun commercial production of their fuel cell powered car, the FCX Clarity.

Georgia Tech air flow system could save 2.4 billion gallons of fuel per year for tractor trailers.