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Electric Engine Conversion
January 23, 2012
Making the switch from gasoline to electric motor for your sailboat turns out to work exceptionally well. The future of boating, if not most transportation, is heading rapidly towards electric. Find out how it works.
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Wind Lens doubles capacity
January 3, 2012
Nuclear accident in Japan has universities there dreaming up new ways to make solar and wind energy sufficient to replace all of their nuclear power plants.
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Battery storage can take renewable energy from 20 to 100 percent
December 19, 2011
The grid makes it easy to share renewable energy for up to twenty percent of the supply. Beyond that requires investment in battery storage systems to make the transition to 100% renewable energy.
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Video: Greenest House in Canada?
December 15, 2011
Stunningly beautiful home shows off great green features like solar thermal hot water, green roofing, and Bullfrog Power 100% green energy.
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Occupy Ideas into Action
December 3, 2011
Be the ideas and action that will change everything. Yes, the occupy movement has shown us, we can simply take action now. Now is the time to be part of changing the way the world works.
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Uganda produces electric car prototype
December 2, 2011
Look out Nissan Leaf, here comes the Kiira EV, Uganda's first electric car.
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Electric car to power your home with solar
December 2, 2011
Nissan sees the future of solar energy. Having developed the most powerful and safe battery system (arguably) in the world, they've now seen that the opportunity now exists to scale production by offering the system as a backup power system for your house. Currently they are testing the concept in their own head office, a masterpiece in sustainable building design.
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CoHousing Solar House
December 1, 2011
Build a solar house, out of sustainable renewable super insulating straw bales, in the city, and make it affordable through cohousing? Okay. Done.
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Solar Power Economics
November 23, 2011
Now is the time to start investing in solar power. We are on the cusp of the major turning point where the panels you buy today will be producing electricity for less than any other source of energy at some point in the next two to ten years. If we accounted for the cost of pollution (carbon and nuclear waste) that point has already been passed. If we removed the subsidies to fossil and nuclear industries we'd also have passed the point where solar is more cost effective. It is in fact more cost effective and always has been. Only our economic systems has been used by vested interests to secure their large sunk investments in these polluting sources of energy.
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Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff Review in Ontario
November 14, 2011
How can Ontario make a good thing even better? You have until December 15th to add your ideas. Here are some responses to the survey that may provide food for thought.
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Movie: Revenge of the Electric Car
November 8, 2011
Green movie night in Waterloo present Revenge of th Electric Car.
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Chris Hedges on Finding Freedom
November 7, 2011
After his arrest in front of Goldman Sachs, as a part of the Occupy Wall Street sit in, Chris Hedges, upon his release wrote a thought provoking article for TruthDig.com, regarding the meaning of freedom.
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Here Comes the Electric Car
October 21, 2011
2012 is The Year of the Electric Car. There are at least 7 models coming out, and those are all 100% electric cars. It is a very exciting time.
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Awakening
October 19, 2011
"A radical situation is a collective awakening...In such situations people become much more open to new perspectives, readier to question previous assumptions, quicker to see through the usual cons." - Ken Knabb, The Joy of Revolution
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Get Involved - Solar Village Design Book
October 14, 2011
Help us develop the Solar Village Design Book as the open source resource for creating sustainable autonomous communities. We've created the first draft. Now we need your input, updates, and edits.
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Documentary Showing: Climate Refugees
October 12, 2011
Global climate change is now affecting millions of people. What is going to happen to the people displaced by climate change? What are you doing about it?
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100% recyclable batteries to solve the storage and peak demand challenges
October 6, 2011
Solar rooftops on homes, when integrated with smart battery systems, are the iPad of the energy world. Solar homes that can store a portion of their renewable energy, contribute to the grid on demand, and even operate autonomously when the grid fails, make for a beautiful energy experience that can power a democratized power future for us all. Here is another open source solar idea that we've proven works. Next generation batteries will then, within ten years, allow you to go fully off-the-grid.
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#OccupyWallStreet is all about getting off the financial grid
October 4, 2011
"Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil." - Chris Hedges
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Getting off the grid with solar
October 2, 2011
Is possible to get off the electricity grid in a city setting through various means of power generation? For example can an individual home owner set up enough solar panels to create enough power to run a fridge, dishwasher, washing machine, lights, computers etc.? How realistic could getting off the grid be?
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Free Video: Back to Eden permaculture agriculture
September 23, 2011
Back to Eden is a new feature documentary that follows one man's revolutionary approach to organic and permaculture gardening.
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