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Solar Electric Transit Bus Comes to North America
May 9, 2012
Imagine a large 12 meter long bus, quietly humming down your street, roof covered with solar panels, electric motor driven and running entirely on clean renewable energy. Well these buses are available and operating today in China. Now they are coming to North America reports the CBC.
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One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
May 7, 2012
Farming without fossil fuels can produce as much or more when using One Straw Revolution or Permaculture. If we took the time to observe nature we could be producing more of what we need without creating massive disruption. This being true, you also have to ask, why is the dominant system fossil fuel based?
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Solar Boat Completes Circumnavigation
May 3, 2012
Traveling more than 60,000 kilometres entirely using electricity generated by photovoltaic solar panels on the deck of this large boat. Compare that to $1000 for a medium/small size power boat using gasoline to cross lake Ontario, ignoring the terrible cost related to the pollution.
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Save $2000 per year, switch to electric
April 24, 2012
Switching to an electric car could save you up to $2000 per year and growing. Learn more about why switching to renewable energy and away from fossil/nuclear non-renewables makes so much sense.
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First Power is Indigenous Power
April 24, 2012
Donna Morton is the CEO and co-founder of First Power. She is an entrepreneur building a business on the idea that power really is the people. All the technology exists and is sitting on the table for us to make use of so that we can completely replace oil, gas and nuclear for all our energy requirements.
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Solar Kindle
April 10, 2012
Check out the future of book reading. Kindle now has a solar power charging cover.
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Sailors Keep Our Waters Blue by Learning to Boat Green
April 4, 2012
Want five things you can do today to make boating greener? Interested in learning more about switching to electric on your boat. See what Greg Martin has to say. Here is a sailor who is walking the talk, or in his case sailing the sail and motoring the auxiliary on electric.
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Solar that Works All Night with Grid Based Battery Storage
April 2, 2012
Just imagine if a battery could store all of the solar energy your solar panels collected each day. Then, when the sun goes down, or the clouds roll in, you'd still have all the electricity you need. That day has arrived. Electrovaya is testing a 1.5 MW lithium ion battery on the Arizona power grid.
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Green School Dream
March 28, 2012
Green School is an off-the-grid school in Bali that teaches kids how to build, garden, create (and get into college). The centerpiece of campus is the spiraling Heart of School, perhaps the world's largest freestanding bamboo building. See the video of the amazing design.
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Chevy Volt Test Drive
March 27, 2012
Getting an electric car like the Chevy Volt is a big step in the right direction. Making the switch from gasoline to electricity is a big change. What does it all mean for you?
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KNOCKING ON THE DEVIL’S DOOR: Our Deadly Nuclear Legacy
March 22, 2012
The unedited history of nuclear in the United States.
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Bringing Down the Empire: Challenging the Institutions of Domination
March 14, 2012
Check out The People's Book Project by Andrew Gavin Marshall. This new book currently being written is a heavily researched initiative to present a new understanding of the world, focusing specifically on historical, political, social, and economic power structures. The aim is to understand the ideas, institutions, and individuals which have come to be dominant over humanity, and thus, how humanity can free itself from the chains that bind it to its present state. Learn more and support this inspiring new idea.
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Growing Your Own Food
March 13, 2012
Spring is in the air. Time to get ready to grow some of the most delicious and health food you can imagine. Your own. It isn't hard. Check out this new video from the Solar Village that expains how.
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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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