Obama Pushes Green Energy Made in America

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Published Aug. 17, 2010 at 8:15 a.m.

On President Barack Obama’s tour yesterday of a Wisconsin renewable energy site, he discussed the importance of clean energy manufacturing and automobiles with a “Made in the United States” stamp, according to an Associated Press report.The President was in Menomonee Falls, Wisc. at ZBB Energy, which manufactures renewable energy batteries and fuel cells. He anticipates that [ ... ] ...

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The Zero Emissions Race: Four Teams Compete To Go Around The Globe Using Renewable Energy

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Published Aug. 15, 2010 at 10:32 p.m.
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Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg, the main fictional character in the 1873 novel "Around the World in Eighty Days," was an ambitious man. His passion was to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, but he had nothing on Louis Palmer, the Swiss teacher who built his own solar car and took it around the globe to demonstrate the power and potential of solar energy. Now Palmer has inspired others, and tomorrow five teams from four continents are starting a race around the globe with electric vehicles ...

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Ford is Increasing Use of Non-Steel Renewable & Recyclable Materials

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Published April 21, 2010 at 4:35 p.m.
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Image: Ford "In 2009, Ford reduced the amount of automotive-related plastics to landfills by nearly 30 million pounds" Making cars more fuel efficient, and eventually run 100% on clean and renewable energy, is a great goal. But in parallel, it is important to clean up the materials and processes used to make the cars themselves. Steel is already widely recycled, but what about all the other materials (foams, plastics, fabrics, etc)? Most automakers have been working on that problem, and the

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Best of Green: Fashion & Beauty (Slideshow)

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Published April 12, 2010 at 4:30 p.m.
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- Produced by Mairi Beautyman While green fashion and natural beauty might get lost amidst haute hybrids, architectural wonders, and renewable energy here on TreeHugger, if you're dressed or showered, this category applies to you ... After years of covering innovations in sustainable textiles; organic, natural, and chemical-laden beauty products; tracking the trends from runway to ready-to-wear, featuring up-and-coming designers who are ...

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DOE Optimistic About Future of Wind Power in U.S.

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Published Feb. 3, 2010 at 1:27 a.m.

Widely considered to be one of the most promising renewable energy sources available, wind power may become a global reality in the near future, marking a shift away from continued dependency on fossil fuels.Architectural firm On Office has created a proposal for Norway called "The Turbine City," which has the ...

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Greenhouse Gas Pumped to Boost Clean Energy

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Published Dec. 29, 2009 at 2:05 p.m.

Carbon dioxide could make an underappreciated form of renewable energy much more efficient ...

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Video: White House Grants Green Tax Credits

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Published Dec. 22, 2009 at 2:01 a.m.
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The White House has proposed a $5 billion increase in clean energy tax credits in an effort to grow green collar jobs and expand renewable energy infrastructure. The proposal, unveiled last week by Vice President Joe Biden, would raise the current ...

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Geothermal on a buck a day (or maybe even less)

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Published Dec. 14, 2009 at 10:14 a.m.

In a recent Gr eenlivingonline poll asking readers about the renewable energy system they most dream about having in their home one day, 42% of respondents said, “geothermal heating” ... read more ...

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All Aboard the Climate Express to Copenhagen (Slideshow)

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Published Dec. 6, 2009 at 3:05 p.m.
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photo: Matthew McDermott Having previously written about the Climate Express prior to the start of its journey in Kyoto, Japan I was very excited when the UNEP invited me to join them for the final leg of the journey. We traveled from Brussels to Copenhagen powered entirely by renewable energy (additional renewably-generated electricity equal to that consumed by the journey) was purchased and f ...

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Could Methane Gas Power Our Homes?

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Published Nov. 4, 2009 at 1:25 p.m.

Last week, the U.S. dairy energy and GE Energy linked up for the New York Dairy Power Summit in Syracuse, N.Y. The main talking point: generating cost-effective energy from methane produced by cow manure.Generating renewable energy from waste is a notable trend, as climate change and waste management tops the ...

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