Green living has a way of creating solutions, often from diverse and seemingly unrelated problems. One of the best examples has the potential to profoundly improve our economy, revitalize the automotive industry, enhance our national electrical grid and be a catalyst for the large-scale development of renewable energy. It also could reduce pollution, slash our [...]

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1. CFL: The better bulb Compact florescent bulbs (CFLs) are those swirley little guys that look like soft-serve ice cream cones. Actually, they come in a myriad of different shapes, sizes, and colors of light. Economically speaking, they’re a great deal, too. CFLs cost a bit more than an incandescent, but use about a quarter [...]

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Hank Green at ecogeek.org reports on the latest about VW’s 1LE:

VW has been talking for a long time about their 1L concept, so called because it uses a measly 1 liter of gasoline to go 100 km. For us Americans, that translates to about 230 miles per gallon. Of course, the amazing mileage comes at [...]

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naturalexistence.com, by Adam Beazley. A company called FlowDesign has taken a page from the aeronautical engineering field and designed a type of “Jet Engine” wind turbine. These new wind turbines are said to be able to produce four times more electricity than typical wind turbines. Not only that, but because of their design, they can [...]

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Large solar thermal power plants, which use the sun’s heat to generate electricity, could generate 715,000 megawatts of electricity in Nevada without greenhouse gases that lead to global warming, an advocacy group said Thursday in a new report.
Benjamin Schreiber, staff attorney for Environment America, the group that made the report, ranked solar power considerations high [...]

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