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START asked: On this week’s Cheap Cool Crazy: a unicorn head you can wear, a miniature arcade cabinet for your iPad, and an electric car from Tesla that will let you ditch the gas station forever! Do you geek out over gadgets and go crazy for gear? Then join IGN’s Naomi Kyle as she presents three sweet products that’ll have …

Energy benchmarking can help you better understand your commercial property’s energy use and monitor performance over time. It allows for comparisons among similar building types and helps identify which ones could operate more efficiently. The Environmental Protection Agency and its ENERGY STAR® Program offers a free online tool called Portfolio Manager that allows users to track and assess building energy …

FedEx Express, a unit of Memphis-based FedEx Corp is rolling out a fleet of 43 electric trucks in the San Francisco Bay Area , joining 53 other electric vehicles in cities across the U.S. The giant logistics-and-delivery company’s new all-electric (EV) trucks will also be deployed in several Southern California cities, suburban Washington, D.C., New York City, and in some …

Our friends over at Celsius have raised the bar and worked to promote a call to action with regard to ending fossil fuel subsidies. We at Alt E HQ support this effort and ask you to read the article below and join the cause: Dear friends, This is huge. Two weeks ago we joined a diverse coalition to launch an …

Green Jobs: Making a Difference Today and Tomorrow Happily, environmentalism is no longer considered a fringe movement with abstract, far-fetched goals. In the United States alone, there are now millions of green jobs open to qualified applicants, with more being created every year. A diverse array of nonprofit organizations, poli-ticians, lobbyists and the writers and publicists on their staffs keep …

during Rio+20 Environment Conference in Brazil Amyris’s Sugarcane-Derived Jet Fuel Ready to be Used in Azul’s EMBRAER 195 Powered by GE’s CF34 Engines Azul Airlines joined Amyris, Inc. and GE in announcing today that Amyris’s innovative renewable jet fuel sourced from Brazilian sugarcane has successfully passed all required testing and will be used during a demonstration flight on an Azul …

kbb asked: FOR MORE AUTOMOTIVE NEWS VISIT: www.kbb.com Mitsubishi is set to throw its hat in the electric car ring with a new model called the “i”. The vehicle is based on the i-MiEV currently sold in Japan and Europe. For American tastes the name was shortened to a single lower-case letter while the vehicle itself was lengthened and widened …

ABCNews asked: Imagine a world without oil. Shai Agassi and his company are making it a reality. *Subscribe: bit.ly

The wind blows. In some places it blows reliably and steady. In others the wind comes and goes with varying speeds. The growth of the wind energy industry has meant there is a greater need for pin pointing where and when the wind will blow so that operators will know how to integrate that produced wind energy into the electrical …

Drive Green: How Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Helps the Planet When it comes to driving, going green usually means driving a fuel efficient car or – if you really want to save a few trees and don’t mind waiting for your car to charge – either buying one of those hybrid cars or a fully electric car. Pay-as-you-drive insurance is yet another …

U.S. government antidumping penalties on imports of photovoltaic (PV) cells from China could suspend nearly half of solar module shipments to North America this year, impacting pricing, inventories and project timelines, according to an IHS iSuppli PV Perspectives report from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS). The U.S. Department of Commerce on May 17 announced a preliminary determination in …

Why Wait Till Gas Hits $10 a Gallon? Sustainable Energy Expert Details National Plan of Action There’s a lot of moaning and hand-wringing whenever gasoline prices approach $4 a gallon. But all it would take for them to hit $10 a gallon overnight would be hurricanes wiping out a couple of refineries or saboteurs disabling a couple of pipelines, says …

JA Solar Responds to U.S. Department of Commerce’s Preliminary Decision on Antidumping Tariffs on Chinese Solar Products JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, today responded to the preliminary decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce (“DOC”) on imposing antidumping duties on China-produced solar products. According to the DOC’s preliminary determination, …

VOAvideo asked: US car company General Motors has made some tough business decisions regarding its electric-powered Chevrolet Volt. Some analysts are wondering what this means for the future of electric cars in America. VOA’s Carolyn Presutti takes us for a spin to find out.

When power plants begin capturing their carbon emissions to reduce greenhouse gases – and to most in the electric power industry, it’s a question of when, not if – it will be an expensive undertaking. Current technologies would use about one-third of the energy generated by the plants – what’s called “parasitic energy” – and, as a result, substantially drive …

In celebration of the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge, space scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are topping each tower with a glittering solar candle. Space scientist John Vallerga describes the Solar Beacon project and how the public can experience it. Video by Roxanne Makasdjian. The “candles” are mirrors that the public can control through the Internet …

ReutersVideo asked: Sept. 16 – The Frankfurt motor show sees a charge from electric vehicles – from a lightweight urban mini to a 1000hp supercar. The unveiling of cars for such differing clients is indicative of the growth in the electric car market. Stuart McDill reports.

tsport100 asked: Worlds fastest street legal ELECTRIC CAR 1972 Datsun 1200 Whtie Zombie. This car is based in Oregon… there are something like 18 hydro electric power plants in that state!? Hydro actually generates 58% in Oregon (In Washington it’s over 70%) and coal less? than 7%.Only about 15% of the energy from the fuel you put in your tank …

http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2012/05/31/butuan-school-leads-renewable-energy-use-and-education/ With the energy crisis plaguing Mindanao, a school here is spearheading the campaign in advocating the use of renewable energy by using these technologies right inside campus, and even introducing a subject on the topic. The Philippine Electronics and Communication Institute of Technology (PECIT) has started putting up wind power generators last April and is in the process in …

With everyone trying to help the environment by reducing their carbon footprint and using renewable energy to reduce electricity bills, wind turbines are the future for the UK. You probably hear a lot about solar power, expensive panels that will help reduce your energy bill dramatically, but wind and water are other renewable sources that should be considered moving forward. …