Controlling heat loss, lighting, and waste can make for an energy-efficient and green Halloween celebration at home. (Photo: Sunnking)
Hey folks, Halloween is almost here. My kids can hardly contain themselves with excitement no matter how much I tell them that the current observance of an old tradition has been transformed into an annual feeding frenzy [...]

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Saferay has built a 78 MW solar plant on land that used to be an open pit mine in Senftenberg, Germany. (Photo: Saferay)
What do you do with an abandoned open pit mine with the surrounding soil contaminated by years worth of toxic mining by-products? In America, we’ll probably declare the location a Superfund site, fill [...]

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Watch amazing archival footage of activity of Kilauea volcano, inside Pu’u O’o crater. The Big Island of Hawaii currently sources 20% of its power from a geothermal plant in Mt. Kilauea.
What comes to mind when you hear of Hawaii? Lots of things, actually. For some, it’s the sandy beaches and clear waters. For others, it’s [...]

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Here’s a piece of good news for drivers of electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrids in Boston and some parts of Massachusetts. BMW has recently announced their partnership with Coulomb Technologies to install 150 ChargePoint stations in the city and across the state.

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Here’s something that might prove useful to people who have lost power during a natural disaster like an earthquake or a hurricane. In Japan, a few weeks ago, Nissan unveiled a system to power an entire house during a power interruption or outage, using the LEAF electric vehicle.

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In a move that’s widely seen as a further proof of the armed services’ commitment to develop renewable sources, the United States Army has recently announced the creation of Energy Initiatives Office Task Force. The new command will be responsible for the building of renewable energy power plants in U.S. military bases across the world, [...]

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Suntrek, based in Irvine, California, has installed a 672 kW solar power system at the Yosemite National Park, one of the nation’s oldest and most beloved nature reserves. Visitors to the park will see not just the parks natural attractions, including the world-famous El Capitan monolith, but the solar panels attached to structures in [...]

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Electric vehicles are coming of age, so to speak. Not only are more people these days increasingly and keenly aware of the environmental price of continuing our use of fossil fuels indefinitely into the future, they’re also adapting new technologies to mitigate the nearsightedness of previous years. Hybrids and electric vehicles are becoming commonplace but [...]

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Watch: Waste Management video showing how landfill gas is converted to clean energy.
Few people in this “watch-the-gulf-war-on-cable-TV-at-dinner-time” era have not heard of Raytheon. If you haven’t, how about Patriot missile defense systems?

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As people become more conscious of the need to efficiently manage and save on their energy consumption and as traditional energy sources become more limited, the use of energy saving devices will become more commonplace in households and businesses across America.

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