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Cosmo Catalano

DOE to Study Oil Shale Carbon Sequestration

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will partner with American Shale Oil to study storing CO2 underground.»

Cosmo Catalano

Bike Commuter Tax Benefit Takes Effect

It may not seem like much, but the new federal $20-a-month tax credit can more than pay for the cost of commuting by bike.»

Cosmo Catalano

Vegawatt Adds to Restaurant's Power Menu

Cogenerating heat and power -- especially when using waste oil -- can play an important role in addressing climate change.»

Carl Frankel

Sustainability 2.0 Is New? I Don't Think So

Despite the catchy name, the idea of strategic sustainability has been with us for more than a decade.»

Carl Frankel

Wal-Mart Introduces Eco-Friendly Asthma Inhaler

The low-priced device does not use CFCs.»

Scott Salyer

Should Auld Computers Be Forgot?

Oregon's New Year's Resolution: to reduce its e-waste footprint by requiring recycling of electronics.»

Scott Salyer

Energy Efficiency Enters the Public Vocabulary

Support for energy efficiency depends heavily on getting the public up to speed.»

Carl Frankel

Economy Will Determine Sustainable Actions in 2009

2008 delivered a bumper crop of epic financial sagas. They'll keep supplying headlines in the year ahead.»

Carl Frankel

Whole Foods Criticized for Climate-Change Strategy

The natural products retailer gets low marks in Ceres' rating of corporate global warming strategies»

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CleanTechnica

Dead People Will Provide Heat to Crematorium Facilities

If you’re dead and worried about the carbon emissions created from your cremation, relax. The Swedish town of Halmstad has a solution.»

Edmunds' Green Car Advisor

Congestion Pricing - Let's Provide Alternatives Before Demonizing Autos

As concerns about global warming, energy independence and plain old traffic congestion grow and the automobile continues to be demonized, it seems that we are approaching possible solutions to our problems in a posterior-backwards manner.»

CleanTechnica

Singer Bjork Becomes Newest Cleantech Celebrity VC

The songstress and Iceland-based Andur Capital have started a venture-capital fund focused on greentech startups. They established the fund to help turn around Iceland’s economy, which was crushed by the country’s banking collapse in»

Triple Pundit

EPA's Love Affair With Carbon About to End

The Environmental Protection Agency is, yet again, not doing the very thing its name implies. For the umpteenth time in the past few years, the EPA (and its lame duck administrator) is simply turning»

Greenbang

Britian's ‘New Deal’ Could Benefit Clean Tech

Climate change issues and clean tech could benefit in 2009 as part of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Roosevelt-like ‘New Deal’ investment plans.»

Inhabitat

Milan’s Stunning Green Super City

Milano Santa Monica will be a self-contained development employing principles of bio-architecture in addition to photovoltaic panels and solar-thermal water heaters to cut down on energy use.»

Domestic Fuel

Philly Utility to Run on Wind, Biodiesel Power

A Philadelphia-based utility has announced plans to use wind and biodiesel power, along with more hybrid vehicles to help power its headquarters.»

EcoWorldly

A First: More Ethanol Sold than Gas in Brazil

Drivers bought more unblended sugar cane ethanol than gas in Brazil in 2008, marking a first in ethanol history.»

Environment News Service

Energy Efficiency Could Save Texans $11.9 Billion on Electric Bills

Texas could reduce electric usage by 23 percent if utilities invest more in efficiency measures, saving Texans as much $11.9 billion on their electric bills, according to a report written by an energy consulting»

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