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Google-backed startup claims energy efficiency breakthrough
Photo: Marcin WicharyOn Wednesday I joined a cadre of other reporters who had been summoned to the Googleplex in Silicon Valley for what was billed as the launch of a […]
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Your guide to a great green weekend in Portland
Portland’s swanky Sapphire Hotel.Photo: Sarah Gilbert Can you think of a greener city than Portland? Nope, didn’t think so. The City of Roses occupies a warm, squishy spot in the […]
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Rolls Royce electric car will let blue-bloods go green
  Here’s what needs to happen for electric cars to become the new industry standard: They need to be seen as sexier, manlier, and more upscale than original fossil-fuel flavor. […]
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Big Oil lobby announces it will start donating directly to candidates
Apparently their current amount of influence isn’t good enough.Cross-posted from the Wonk Room. The American Petroleum Institute (API), Big Oil’s chief lobbying organization, will start directly backing political candidates in the […]
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Sitting in traffic triggers more heart attacks than eating, alcohol, cocaine, and sex
Running your car in an enclosed garage is one way to kill yourself — so why do it outside?Photo: Simone RamellaSomeday our descendants will get around solely by hover-monorail and […]
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Do you live in one of the nation’s ‘smartest regions for transportation’?
You might not see much similarity between More people walk to work in Boston than in any other city in the country.Photo: Steve MinorYolo County, Calif., with its open farmland […]
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Report: Californians paying too high a price for renewable energy
Is solar costing Californians a wad more than it should?Photo: Emergency Dentists USAAre Californians forking over too much green for green energy? A new report [PDF] from a ratepayers advocacy […]
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It’s like Gadhafi is telling us to get off oil or something
Self-congratulatory poster of Gadhafi in Green Square in Tripoli, LibyaPhoto: QuigiboMoammar Gadhafi is a crazy dictator who is murdering his populace and needs to get a cruise missile shat down […]
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Reflecting on a century of economic progress and environmental problems
As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, the problem of the commons is more important to our lives — and more central to economics — […]
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Another Silicon Valley solar startup to build a factory in Oregon
A SolarWorld worker making panels. Photo: SolarWorldAnother Silicon Valley startup is planting a tree in Portlandia’s solar forest, thanks to a United States Department of Energy loan guarantee. SoloPower, a […]
