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The latest hot topic in the carbon industry seems to be that of carbon capture and storage. The US EPA issued a proposal to formulate technical criteria for building, running and monitoring wells. This may lead to commercialization of the CCS technology, which is used to store CO2 deep under the ground. The proposal came out under the Safe Drinking Water Act, which safeguards ground-based water resources from contamination by any external, injection-related actions.

Human-Powered Gymnasium that dances on the waves and is powered by your sweat and your abs-crunching and muscle flexing energy- that is pretty much the concept that is going to drive this gym on waves

Car sales to Americans have fallen well below normal this year so far. This is an anomaly for the DiTech home re-fi'ing American public. The drop in sales portends future drops in sales, since Americans no longer have easy credit or home refinancing available to drop increasingly worthless dollars on gasoline-sucking self-propelled cages.

A ranking of the largest 50 US cities -- and which are best and worst prepared for expensive gasoline prices!

Mashing statistics and art is Seattle-based Chris Jordan, who has produced these amazing and profoundly depressing visualisations of the resources we use and the waste we produce.

Last night, a day after George Bush's final State of the Union speech, Greenpeace volunteers in the US used one of their nation's most iconic monuments to paint a clear picture of what his climate change policies will mean for the planet.

Finally. Grameen America holds a fundamental belief: by unleashing the spirit of enterprise and supplying the proper tools and methods to let it thrive, microfinance will flourish in the United States as it has across the globe. Grameen America is not about handouts. We do not subscribe to leaps of faith. We make investments in people with the drive and ambition to do great things.

Hydrogen-on-demand systems within the automotive industry may one day rock the world. If the current hydrogen on demand systems that are being developed pan out or if future hydrogen-on-demand systems take hold, this could mean that building a huge hydrogen gas infrastructure is not necessary. Read all about it.

Global warming is melting the Arctic at an alarming pace. This summer the Arctic ice cover was the smallest ever recorded. As a result, a host of countries are seeking to drill for the oil and gas once protected by ice.
And the more oil and gas we burn, the faster the Arctic melts and the closer our planet comes to catastrophic climate change.

Sign the petition at http://www.greenpeace.org/handsoffthearctic

In making sure that nuclear power doesn't become part of the UK's energy policy, we tend to focus on the myth that it will solve climate change, the vast expense and the danger from radioactive waste. However, the other end of the supply chain is also fraught with problems and uranium mining can seriously damage your health.