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Ursula Sladek: Taking Back The Grid [Video]

A German activist who helped found Germany's first community-owned utility thinks citizens shouldn't leave big decisions to power companies and elected officials. She has just won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize.READ»

"Green Nobel" Winners Get the Google Earth Mash-Up Treatment

This year's seven winners of the $150,000 Goldman Environmental Prize (AKA the Green Nobel), given to grassroots leaders that take on government and corporate interests to improve their communities, are a motley crew. They ...READ»