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» Hummer Plant Reopens For a Final, Huge Fleet Order
03/10/10 20:10 from Gas 2.0
Hummer is another one of General Motor’s zombie brands that will likely soon cease to exist (if no last minute buyer steps up). The builder of gas-guzzling SUV’s was thought to have been saved when Chinese construction company Sichuan Teng..

» Flying Solar-Powered Sailboat Concept Inspires
03/10/10 19:54 from Gas 2.0
I’m a big fan of science fiction. The genre has instilled some high expectations in me for the coming decades, as well as tempered my imagination against vaporware that works only on paper. But it is good to loosen the grip of reality some..

» February 2010 Dashboard: Toyota Woes Pull Down Hybrid Sales
03/10/10 18:53 from HybridCars.com
> Subscribe to the HybridCars.com Market Dashboard Sales trends for hybrid cars rise and fall with the Toyota Prius. Toyota usually sells as many units of the quintessential hybrid as all other gas-electric cars combined. But February was ..

» Call for Entries: The 2010 James Dyson Award
03/10/10 18:47 from TreeHugger
Designers, engineers, inventors, and crafty gadgeteers, it’s time to get the brain juices percolating and submit for the 2010 James Dyson Award . The competition is put up by the James Dyson Foundation, founded by the British inventor resp..

» Honda CR-Z Almost Didn’t Make It To America
03/10/10 18:39 from Gas 2.0
Imagine for a second you are the President of Honda’s North American division. The closest thing you have to a performance car right now is the Honda Civic Si, and your main competitor to the Prius, the Insight, is getting killed in the ma..

» Cash For Clunkers More Successful Than First Thought?
03/10/10 18:37 from Gas 2.0
Just how much help was Cash for Clunkers for automakers and America? A new study by The Maritz Automotive Research Group suggests that the Cash for Clunkers program may have been more successful than first thought. Cash for Clunkers — whic..

» GMP project approved by Lowell residents
03/10/10 18:34 from Wind Energy Investing
Earth Times reports that Lowell voters have… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» Gary Lauder on the Social and Environmental Impact of Stop Signs and Roundabouts (Video)
03/10/10 18:17 from TreeHugger
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» Gas 2.0 Nominated for Treehugger’s Best of Green Awards (We’d Like Your Votes!)
03/10/10 17:58 from Gas 2.0
It really is shameless self promotion, but, hey, we’re never to proud to beg around here. The granddaddy of all green blog sites, Treehugger , has nominated Gas 2.0 to the “ Best Transportation Website ” category in their annua..

» Work Truck 2010: Nissan working to bring NV200 to U.S., electric version possible, too
03/10/10 17:55 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Nissan Nissan Light Commercial Electric Vehicle sketch – Click above to enlarge At the Work Truck 2010 show in St. Louis today, Nissan Americas president Carlos Tavares announced that the company is working to bri..

» MIT Scientists Discover a Way to Generate Electricity with Thermopower Waves in Carbon Nanotubes
03/10/10 17:39 from TreeHugger
Image: MIT Could Store Power at 100x More Energy/Weight Than Lithium-Ion A team of scientists at MIT has discovered a new way to generate power with carbon nanotubes. In a paper titled ” Chemically driven carbon-nanotube-guided thermopower..

» 80 Rare Butterflies Released to Spend their Short Lives in the Wild
03/10/10 17:38 from TreeHugger
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Until the 20th century, the Palos Verdes peninsula—a small spit of land south of Los Angeles—was the only home of the blue butterfly Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis . Unchecked development..

» Porsche Says They Will Build the 918 Spyder Eco Supercar
03/10/10 17:27 from Gas 2.0
After its surprise introduction at the Geneva Auto Show last week one thing is clear: the Porsche 918 Spyder supercar has struck a resounding nerve in the automotive community. You see, true car nuts, no matter how green they aspire to be,..

» How Best to Debate Climate Deniers on TV? Simple: Don’t.
03/10/10 17:13 from TreeHugger
Photo via Sheerman-Chase I can’t wait to see the comments on this one. Really, I can’t. But this is a concept that I think is important to think about, especially at a time when much of the media appears to be buying into the narrative tha..

» Can Fish Stay on Restaurant Menus? Chef Dan Barber Explores Revolutionary Approach to Fish Farming (Video)
03/10/10 17:10 from TreeHugger
Photo via casers jean How do we keep fish on the menu? Chef Dan Barber asked this question at the recent TED 2010 event. Farmed fish is a problematic issue – sustainable fish farming is even more so. What’s sustainable, and is farmed fish ..

» Are Zeppelins the Future of Air Travel? (Slideshow)
03/10/10 17:00 from TreeHugger
Image: massaud digg_url = ‘http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2010/03/are-zeppelins-the-future-of-air-travel.php’; Concocting crazy flying machines has long been a favorite hobby of mankind. Our generation, accustomed to being whisked to ..

» Endangered and Threatened Species That are Apparently Delicious (Please Don’t Eat Them)
03/10/10 17:00 from TreeHugger
Credit: Giant Salamander Protection International It’s polite to ask before eating the last cookie, or the last piece of cheese, or the last animal of its kind on Earth. Actually, you can’t have permission for that last one: you can’t eat ..

» Report: Another Prius accelerates unintentionally in New York and crashes
03/10/10 16:54 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: Hybrid , Toyota Not one day after a high-profile incident involving a Prius taking off on its owner in Southern California , we’re hearing reports that another one of Toyota’s popular hybrids has suffered unintended accelerati..

» Ford Launches Cheap Micro-Car For India
03/10/10 16:34 from Gas 2.0
In the coming decades, India will emerge as a huge car market due to its population and rapid economic growth. Already China surpassed America in the number of cars sold last year, and both markets represent opportunities for American car ..

» BBC’s Inside Out Airs Expose on The Impacts of UK’s e-Waste on Developing Countries
03/10/10 16:33 from TreeHugger
Photo via dieselboii e-Waste is finally starting to go mainstream and the issue is making its way to television viewers. While some examples of e-waste on TV are horrifying, like the A mazing Race episode that made light of dumps and the e..

» China raises clean energy target to 15 percent
03/10/10 16:27 from Wind Energy Investing
CNBC reports that China plans to impose 15% of… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» Cathy Erway on The Art of Eating In: The TreeHugger Interview
03/10/10 16:20 from TreeHugger
Photo via Goodlifer Cathy Erway is an acclaimed food writer and sustainability activist based in New York City. Two or so years ago, she renounced the consumptive culinary culture of the big apple, and set out to eat in–for every meal. An..

» Olympic Hockey Final Affects Water Supply, Canadian Economy
03/10/10 16:15 from TreeHugger
Globe and Mail Electrical or water systems are designed for peak loads, so it is interesting to see the effects of extraordinary events on infrastructure. It’s estimated that 82% of Canadians watched the final Olympic hockey game between C..

» Report: Hyundai i-flow concept could become Euro i40 in 2011
03/10/10 15:58 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: Hybrid , Hyundai , Geneva Motor Show Hyundai i-Flow Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery Hyundai’s Geneva Motor Show concept, the plug-in hybrid i-Flow , is expected to spawn a new production car for the European m..

» New UN Climate Financing Group Is Another All-Boys Club
03/10/10 15:50 from TreeHugger
photo: Quinn Dombrowski via flickr. We just passed two milemarkers which make this next one all the more poignant: First, two days ago was International Women’s Day and, second, we’ve just been told that in many places women are going to b..

» Should Cell Phone Towers Be Put on Residential Buildings?
03/10/10 15:30 from TreeHugger
Image: Lloyd Alter Between the upgrading of existing systems and the licencing of new carriers, the rooftop landscape of Toronto, Canada is changing rapidly as new antennae are added daily. While TreeHugger has discussed the question of ce..

» Woot! Bike There Feature Added to Google Maps! (Video)
03/10/10 15:21 from TreeHugger
digg_url = ‘http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/woot-google-adds-bike-there-feature-to-google-maps-video.php’; It’s about time! Google Maps has finally added a Bike There feature. They’ve been plugging away for awhile now on ways to ge..

» V-Vehicle’s DOE $250m loan application still in limbo, so $87m in state incentives are lost
03/10/10 15:03 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: Manufacturing/Plants , MPG , Legislation and Policy , USA We have yet to see anything more from V-Vehicle Co. – the secretive start-up automaker that came out of stealth mode last summer with a big plan to build high-mileage, ..

» New Charging Method Could Mean Exponentially Faster Battery Recharge Times
03/10/10 14:55 from TreeHugger
Photo of batteries via Moria , molecules via Technology Review Chemists have figured out a new way to charge up electronics that drastically speeds up how long it takes to fill up to full. Ibrahim Abou Hamad at Mississippi State University..

» Powering Up Electronics With Cotton Fabric? It’s Happening.
03/10/10 14:20 from TreeHugger
Photo via WonderMike Cornell University is about to have a fashion show. And at that fashion show will be clothing made of fabric that is simply electrifying. No, really. Juan Hinestroza, assistant professor of Fiber Science and Apparel De..

» Connecticut to see its first wind farm
03/10/10 14:19 from Wind Energy Investing
Courant.com reports that the Wind Colebrook LLC… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» Report: Porsche intent on building 918, if it’s profitable
03/10/10 13:57 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Porsche , Geneva Motor Show Porsche 918 Spyder concept – Click above for high-res image gallery With all the leaks ahead of auto shows these days, it’s not often that we get a real surprise anymore. There..

» BP Still Ranked Greenest Oil Company by Greenopia – Citgo Brings Up the Rear
03/10/10 13:54 from TreeHugger
photo: BP Greenopia has updated their guide to the greenest oil companies –though it may seem like it, it’s not entirely an oxymoron–and BP is still on top. The other positions have shifted a bit, with Sunoco and Hess taking second and t..

» Evaluating Environmental Performance in Low-Carbon Energy Systems
03/10/10 13:48 from Leonardo ENERGY – The Global Community for Sustainable Energy Professionals
Developing economic well-being and preserving a healthy environment are not opposed forces but do, on the contrary, have a primary relationship and require a similar way of thinking: maximizing the efficiency of a product over its life cyc..

» 69 Bear Invasions In New Jersey Last Year: Hunt On
03/10/10 13:36 from TreeHugger
Dog wounded in New Jersey black bear attack. Image credit: News 12, video. Without getting into what constitutes a black bear “home invasion” or “pet attack” incident, all would agree that black bears frequently in the yard, tipping trash ..

» Co-opportunity by John Grant – Join Up For a Sustainable, Resilient, Prosperous World (Book Review)
03/10/10 13:15 from TreeHugger
We’re excited to welcome British author and green marketing guru John Grant back to the top of our reading list. His latest offering ‘Co-opportunity’ invites us all to “Join up for a sustainable, resilient, prosperous world.” In his recent..

» More Efficient Biomass Gasification Through Solar Concentrating Mirrors
03/10/10 13:10 from TreeHugger
photo: Alex Lang via flickr. Here’s a new twist on biomass gasification , one which more or less merges it with solar thermal. Technology Review is highlighting the efforts of Colorado-based Sundrop Fuels to develop a system which uses the..

» Why Seawater Isn’t the Answer to the Lithium Squeeze
03/10/10 13:00 from Earth2Tech
Seawater: It offered the Ancient Mariner not a drop to drink , but plenty of scientists and entrepreneurs have ideas for how to use the salty stuff for green technologies. Some aim to desalinate it with high-tech membranes to produce fresh..

» Delta Motorsport’s E-4 Coupe concept racing for Automotive X-Prize
03/10/10 13:00 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Automotive X-Prize As the Automotive X-Prize program slowly proceeds toward its conclusion, only one European team remains in the competition. Delta Motorsport is a British engineering consultancy born out of comp..

» Electric Assist Bike Fail – Iwatani Fuel-Cell Assisted Bicycle
03/10/10 13:00 from TreeHugger
Photo via Tech On When it comes to innovation in the greener electronics sector, there are ideas that are smart, but haven’t quite found their mojo when it comes to the finished design or prototype. And then there are just flat out bad ide..

» Zoo Explores Poop Power and Insulation to Cut Carbon
03/10/10 12:47 from TreeHugger
Image credit: 10:10 Campaign/Michele Turton Paignton Zoo in the UK has already hit the headlines for exploring vertical farming to feed its animals . Now the zoo will be recycling the nutrients from that animal feed to power itself. That’s..

» EIB supports second Bulgarian wind park
03/10/10 12:13 from Wind Energy Investing
The Sofia Echo reports that a new 60-megawatt… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» Scientific group negates Cepos claims
03/10/10 10:09 from Wind Energy Investing
The Copenhagen Post Online reports that a group… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» Town Battles Supermarket Expansion and Wins
03/10/10 10:03 from TreeHugger
Image from Mail online There can hardly be a town without Tesco in Britain. The supermarket controls 30% of the business in the country and has stores everywhere. As it expands relentlessly it often wipes out small local businesses in its ..

» Smart Meter Backlash, Again: This Time in Texas
03/10/10 08:00 from Earth2Tech
Uh-oh, another local backlash against the installation of smart meters — and this time it’s not in Bakersfield, Calif., the home of the original smart meter lawsuit that rattled utilities nationwide late last year. The Dallas Morning..

» Prius Runaway Story Raises Suspicion
03/10/10 07:22 from HybridCars.com
James Sikes at a press conference about the alleged runaway acceleration incident. James Sikes, a 61-year-old San Diego-based real estate executive, made national news this week when he claimed that his 2008 Toyota Prius sped out of contro..

» Viet Nam potential for wind power high but expensive
03/10/10 02:41 from Wind Energy Investing
Negaraku Brunei Darussalam reports that Viet Nam… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» Finding the Key to Subsidizing Solar Power
03/10/10 02:16 from TreeHugger
Photo via International Rivers The International Herald Tribune has an interesting (if embarrassingly headlined–in the print edition, they went all-out for an Icarus reference) look at the boom and bust of the Spanish solar industry today..

» Report: Feds probing Prius’ unintended acceleration incident, no new recall issued
03/10/10 00:43 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: Hybrid , Toyota The fall-out of yesterday’s Toyota Prius unintended acceleration incident in California – a car got up to speeds of over 90 miles per hour in a 20-minute event – now includes an investigation by the National Hi..

» Bolsover new turbine designs on show
03/10/10 00:31 from Wind Energy Investing
BBC News reports that Banks Renewables are now… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» Colorado Approves 30% by 2020 Renewable Energy Standard
03/10/10 00:04 from EcoGeek.org
Yesterday, Colorado’s state legislature finalized a bill to increase the state’s renewable energy standard to 30 percent by 2020. Colorado was one of the first states to adopt a renewable energy standard at all, committing in 2004 to get 1..

» Who Will Lead The U.N. On Climate Change?
03/09/10 23:59 from TreeHugger
photo via Climate Changer A few weeks ago, UN Climate Chief Yvo de Boer stepped down from his post as the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat. Who replaces him figures to be a signal of where the UN is going on climate change. Develo..

» Boat-Eating Bug May Hold Key for Future of Biofuels
03/09/10 23:39 from Gas 2.0
New research out of the University of York in Britain is unraveling some mysteries of the common wood-eating gribble that could provide the key to cheaply turning abundant wood and straw fiber into biofuel. (more…)

» Pre-Dinosaur Era Plant Specimens Brazenly Stolen
03/09/10 23:38 from TreeHugger
This photo, via The Telegraph , shows just how difficult it is to move one of the large, primitive cycads. Important specimens from one of the world´s oldest and rarest species of plant were stolen last weekend, covert ops style, from a bo..

» Do it for the kids us: vote in Treehugger’s 2010 Readers’ Choice Awards
03/09/10 23:37 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: Green Culture , Green Daily 2011 Chevrolet Volt – click above for high-res image gallery 2010 might only be a few months old (wait, it’s already a few months old?!?), but Treehugger is ready to declare the best of the year wit..

» Xtreme Power: A Super-Battery For Hawaiian Wind Farms
03/09/10 23:00 from Earth2Tech
Xtreme Power has been pulling the veil away from its decades-old energy storage technology over the past six months or so, getting attention for claims of a “chemical capacitor” that can beat lithium ion batteries in terms of energy storag..

» Nitrogen’s Impact on Public Health
03/09/10 22:50 from TreeHugger
Image credit: Grist Imagine a hot summer day in a town surrounded by glistening pools of water. Now imagine that no one is swimming—that they can’t because the water has been contaminated with a potentially dangerous, yet common, pol..

» AT&T Will Buy the First Ford Transit Connect Electric Vans
03/09/10 22:31 from Gas 2.0
Fresh off its official unveiling at the Chicago Auto Show a couple weeks ago, Azure Dynamics, Ford and AT&T have just announced that AT&T will be the first company to own some Ford Transit Connect Electric commercial fleet vans. With an or..

» A Good Climate Bill Will Be Strong, Not Easy
03/09/10 22:30 from TreeHugger
Image credit: Good Passing a strong climate bill, Good tells us in a recent editorial, is a necessity. Such a bill, they write, must be defined by what is good for the country, not what is easy for the Senate to agree upon…. Read the ful..

» Daily Sprout
03/09/10 22:30 from Earth2Tech
$154M in Fed Funds for NRG’s Clean Coal Project: “Secretary Chu Announces Up To $154 Million for NRG Energys Carbon Capture and Storage Project in Texas,” which is the third round of the Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). R..

» SeaEnergy is 2010 Rosenblatt ‘Company of the Year’
03/09/10 22:24 from Wind Energy Investing
Renewable Energy Focus reports that SeaEnergy… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» KAIST’s On Line Electric Vehicle draws energy from the road, now in use in S. Korea
03/09/10 22:24 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Asia In September, the Korea Advanced Institute of Technology (KAIST) demonstrated the technical concept for the On Line Electric Vehicle (OLEV) using individual cars (which were really kind of cute – see them her..

» Nationwide Homebuilder Adds Electric Car Prewiring as Option
03/09/10 22:11 from Gas 2.0
KB Home , one of the largest homebuilders in the U.S., has announced that they will be providing the option to homebuyers to pre-wire their new construction homes so that they are ready for the high voltage, high amperage electrical lines ..

» Life on the Endangered Species Waiting List
03/09/10 22:10 from TreeHugger
The greater sage-grouse was deemed to be “warranted but precluded” by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Though it “warrants” protection under the Endangered Species Act, Secretary of the Interior Ken Sala..

» Steven Chu: “It Could Be Very, Very Bad”
03/09/10 21:48 from CleanTechnica
“It’s not too late; we can minimize the alteration, or we can just plow on as usual … and if we plow on as usual … it could be very, very bad. ” So says Nobel Prizewinner for Physics, Steven Chu, who is now Energy Secretary of ..

» Ballard gets $6.2M in DOE funding for non-automotive fuel cells
03/09/10 21:12 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: Hydrogen Ballard fuel cell forklift – Click above for a high-res image gallery Ballard Material Products has received the bulk of $6.2 million in Department of Energy funding for research work into fuel cell materials aimed at..

» Let’s Not Forget: Even Without CO2, Coal Would Still Be Very Dirty
03/09/10 21:02 from TreeHugger
“Orthographic aerial photograph of Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill, in Kingston, Tennessee, taken the day after the event.” Photo: Public domain CO2 is Important, But Not the Only Thing David Roberts over at Grist has a gre..

» New Iberdrola offshore division to manage 10K MW
03/09/10 20:16 from Wind Energy Investing
REVE reports that Iberdrola Renovables has… [[ Visit WindEnergyInvesting.com to read the full article. ]]

» 10 First Solar Utility Deals in the U.S.
03/09/10 20:00 from Earth2Tech
When First Solar snagged a 550-megawatt deal with Southern California Edison last year, the thin-film solar giant’s utility contracts amounted to more than its actual production capacity, BNET pointed out . As utilities continue racing to ..

» Owning an Electric Car prepares and enlightens
03/09/10 19:55 from AutoblogGreen
Filed under: Etc. , EV/Plug-in , UK Ever wonder what it is really like to own an electric car? Before rushing out to buy that new Nissan Leaf or Mitsubishi i MiEV ( or what have you ) it might be a good idea to know what to expect. And wha..