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Map shows avalanche of cellulosic ethanol projects on the way
In the battle between food and fuel, cellulosic ethanol might not be a great idea or even a viable solution to our energy woes, but enzyme company Novozymes says it's coming, regardless.
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Suck it, Gingrich, you CAN put a gun rack on a Chevy Volt
At a campaign event in Georgia, Newt Gingrich told supporters that he would maaaaaagically lower gas prices because “you can’t put a gun rack on a Volt.” Shows what the […]
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In Germany, solar will be as cheap as conventional electricity by 2013
"Grid parity" has arrived in parts of sunny California and Hawaii, and it's coming to (not-so-sunny) Germany by 2013.
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Ask Umbra: What’s the greenest business card?
A reader wonders how to network sustainably. Umbra consults the cards.
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Kazakhstan, Mongolia to rescue us from China’s rare earths monopoly
Germany just signed agreements with Kazakhstan and Mongolia to mine rare earths in those countries, in an effort to break China's monopoly over these 17 elements.
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This guy invented a manure-powered car … in 1971
According to this 1971 article from Mother Earth News, British chicken farmer Harold Bate invented a car that runs on animal droppings 40 years ago. Why the hell are we […]
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Sales of residential solar in Japan explode like reactor #4
Sales of solar panels for Japanese homes are up 30.7 percent in 2011, despite -- or, let's be real, because of -- the economic hit the country took in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
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Love fast food, America? Well then, why don’t you marry it?
Pizza Hut is now offering a $10,010 proposal package. If you're going to try this, your relationship better be more solid than day-old stuffed crust cheese.
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This app gets rid of your junk mail
Free app iOS/Android/WP7 app PaperKarma purports to unsubscribe you from junk mail and catalog lists with just a snapshot. You take pictures of your junk mail haul, and PaperKarma identifies […]
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How 1.6 billion people who live on less than a dollar a day afford renewables
If you're not already connected to an electricity grid, renewable energy is a no-brainer, argues Michigan professor of history and ‘scholar of the Muslim world’ Juan Cole.
