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Boston Globe on Mass Maritime project

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Largest Array of Solar-Powered Outdoor Streetlights in New England

America's oldest continuously operating maritime institute, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, has just completed the largest installation of solar-powered outdoor lighting in New England. SolarOne Solutions and Hadco Lighting provided ...READ»

Why The Reign of Conventional Batteries Is Nearly Over

As usual this holiday season millions of kids will be opening gifts that a caring parent must crack open immediately to jam in batteries before the playing can begin. Since its invention in 1800 as the "Voltaic pile" by Alessandro ...READ»

The Energy is Out West

With word that Barack Obama has settled on his energy and environment team, the future is, not surprisingly, out west, as The Wall Street Journal notes this morning. And that makes the probablity of more environmental regulation for ...READ»

Steel Mill's Environmentally-Friendly Flooring

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Energy Independence for Sustainable Future

Oil is one of the greatest inventions of mankind.  It was derived from fossil fuels and has powered automobiles and machines for centuries. The worldwide demand for oil has increased faster than the supplies of oil. Globalization and ...READ»

Houston Is Recession-Proofing Its Economy -- With Wind Power

Flush with oil-and-gas money but wary of a bust, the Texas metropolis launches a multimillion-dollar effort to recession-proof its economy.READ»

Tech Watch: Nukes In Your Yard and Fuel Cells In Your Pocket

Two companies are doing two very different things to address the energy problem in America. How about a mini-reactor giving your neighborhood nuclear power? Or would you like thin fuel cell chips to give your gadgets juice?READ»

Newt Gingrich: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less

  by Kelly Jad'on Book Review: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less—A Handbook For Slashing Gas Prices And Solving Our Energy Crisis (Regnery Pub., 2008) by Newt Gingrich Former Speaker Newt Gingrich follows up ...READ»

Postcard from Beijing

What do Starbucks and smog have in common? Opportunity. As I walk around Beijing, the signs of the 2008 Olympics fading into memory, I am struck by the fact that every corner has a Starbucks, not to mention other ubiquitous American ...READ»

A Glimpse of Our Future?

I came across two very different sources of fortune-telling this week. The first was the Border Governors’ Conference (BGC), held at Universal Studios in Hollywood and focused on building a green economy (check it out at ...READ»

Tire Gauges of the World - - UNITE!

Last week, Senator Obama called on American drivers to properly inflate their tires as one of many ways we can cut our energy bills and our carbon footprints simultaneously. Although this simple call to action was caught up in ...READ»

Let’s Look Beyond the Haze

I was in Beijing last week and noticed the smog, of course, but as China grapples with Olympics and air quality I also saw something much more important. China is serious about energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse ...READ»

Big Wind from Texas

Fast Interview: Jerry Patterson, Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, on how Texas became the leader in wind power development.READ»

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Who’s Got the Winning Idea?

As we scramble for solutions to climate, energy, and environmental problems, companies, governments, and individuals are taking action - - so does anyone have a monopoly on great ideas for true “sustainability” or “social ...READ»

The Easy Way Out

Governor Charlie Crist hosted a Climate Summit in Miami this week and here are a few observations from the front row… In his opening keynote, Governor Crist showed the value of leadership - - just one year ago, he challenged ...READ»

The World's First Moving (Not Just Rotating!) Building

An 80-storey (420-metre tall) moving building is slated to be built in Dubai, with apartments that will spin 360 degrees at voice command, according to the BBC. Talk about innovative… 79 horizontally placed wind turbines ...READ»

Enthusiasm the Lost Art

Living and working in the Midwest, I have had the opportunity to climb the corporate ladder quickly.  Throughout my last four years I have noticed a growing trend that is both threatening and dissappointing.  My enthusiasm for ...READ»

An Inconvenient Economy

On Friday, the price of oil jumped a record $10.75 per barrel, to more than $138, immediately sending the dollar into a freefall and causing the Dow Jones to ask for a sick-day. Meanwhile, unemployment rose at a record-setting pace ...READ»

Are You Perpetually Exhausted?

Are you ignoring that exhaustion, telling yourself you’ll take some time off in a month or so?  In the meantime how are you able to effectively lead if you’re too tired to process everything that’s going on around you? ...READ»

Hope for Hydrogen

I believe your article on hydrogen ("Hotbed," April) missed half the story. Hydrogen will replace oil and coal. It can be generated anywhere, can be stored, and when burned simply goes back to water with zero carbon emissions. ...READ»

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What Does Walmart Know?

Last week I visited Walmart’s annual sustainable packaging conference in Bentonville, Arkansas. I learned that the first such meeting took place in a conference room in Walmart’s headquarters just three years ago and 50 ...READ»

Sophisticated Psychology- Laymans Terms

Recently in my reading I came across a book entittled A NEW EARTH by Eckhart Tolle.  After reading hundreds of books and papers explaining the mind and how it works I was immediately impressed by this mans work.  IN MY OPINION - ...READ»

Energy Crisis Averted! Learn more here...

What the world needs now, and in particular the world's residents individually, is more energy. We are wearing ourselves out with our fast-paced, stress-filled lives. Yes, we are leading up to the subject of energy ...READ»