Archive for September, 2008

Let’s Use Wind to Power Cars - Common Dreams

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Let’s Use Wind to Power Cars - Common Dreams
Legendary Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is half right. We do need to harness this country’s wind resources for a homegrown source of electricity, as he has been urging this summer in expensive television ads. And we do need to reduce the $700 billion

NDP candidate Michael Byers raises alarm about arctic ice - Georgia Straight
This morning at the Maritime Museum, Vancouver Centre NDP candidate Michael Byers gave a graphic description of the extent of the melting of the polar ice cap. Unfortunately, there were only five people present to hear him speak including a baby

German Town First to Require Solar Panels on New Buildings - Deutsche Welle

Friday, September 12th, 2008

German Town First to Require Solar Panels on New Buildings - Deutsche Welle
Gro ansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: In the face of rising energy prices, solar panels pay off in the long run Marburg, a German college town of about 80,000, has become the first in the country to make solar heating obligatory for newly

Photos: Scots HQ is green office of the future - Silicon.com
Building services company NG Bailey has opened a Scottish HQ, consolidating a number of other sites and showcasing a number of features that save or create energy as a way of introducing their customers to the possibilities of green offices. Taken