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David Cavanaugh

Yingli Gains Solar Market Share Through Outstanding Performance

The solar company is growing by 23 percent per year by lowering costs.»

Gas 2.0

A Brief History of Hybrid Cars

Let’s give credit where credit is due, and thank everyone who helped along the way»

Sustainable Life Media

IBM’s World Community Grid Turns Focus to Water

Network of PC owners donate unused power for clean water projects»

Environmental News Network

Potomac River Vegetation Showing Strong Signs of Recovery

River beginning to benefit from restoration projects»

EcoLocalizer

Mexico Eco Resort & Spa Aims to Be Greenest Resort in World

Sandos Caracol enticing travelers with environmentally friendly upgrades»

CleanTechies

Record-Breaking Solar Cell Efficiency for Oerlikon, Cornin

Thin-film developments yielding thick efficiency results»

Peter Asmus

Why Tidal Power is Europe’s Best Near-Term Ocean Energy Technology

The news that the world’s largest tidal turbine will be installed off the coast of Scotland should come as no surprise.»

SustainableBusiness.com

NIST Finalizes Smart Grid Cyber Security Guidelines

The guidelines provide strategies to protect the power grid from attacks, malicious code, cascading errors, and other threats.»

HybridCars

Toyota Yaris to Join Push for Small Affordable Hybrids

The downsizing of hybrids, at first in Europe and Asia, could represent the technology’s shift to mainstream global markets.»

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Reuters

South African Utility Turns to Green Energy

South Africa's power utility Eskom will start procuring renewable energy projects next month to help ease power shortages in the country and relieve its carbon footprint, it said on Wednesday.»

Environment News Service

Clean Water Solutions Win Awards at World Water Week

A new way to break down plastic polystyrine debris using micro-organisms and enzymes won two Canadian teenagers the Stockholm Junior Water Prize»

Ubergizmo

Hankuk Relay Unveils Wind-powered Lights And Solar Light Tracer

The wind lightings include a range of wind turbines that will respond to the lightest winds to generate renewable electricity.»

Earth2Tech

How Web Sharing Sites Are Saving the Planet

At the same time the population grows — and partly because of it — the planet is facing a shift to a new era of constrained resources.»

ENN

Diverse Water Sources Key to Food Security

Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns related to climate change pose a major threat to food security and economic growth.»

Triple Pundit

Two Fast and Easy Ways to Spot a Greenwasher

Each person must decide whether to support the company’s seemingly sustainable efforts or call them out for not going the distance.»

VentureBeat

Coda’s Electric Sedan Says ‘Aloha’ to Hawaii

Coda announced today their plans to roll out their all-electric sedan in Hawaii in the third quarter of 2011, positioning the car to battle the Nissan Leaf in a market that suffers from the»

Triple Pundit

Women of Plastic and Paper: A Debate Over Environmental Benefits

Companies need to take a more active role in managing their products’ waste.»

Environment News Service

Cape Wind Completes Massachusetts Permitting With Legal Victory

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of wind farm developer Cape Wind Associates.»

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