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Is it inconvenient? Nope. Ten things you can do today to help the environment...

Here are 10 things you can do today to help save the environment and while saving money. I'm only including ideas here that everyone can do either with no investment or a minimal upfront cost.   Other...

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Make or Break Energy Bill (HR3221) for Renewables in Congress

I just finished watching 'Saved by the Sun' on PBS about the growing needs for renewable energy through solar power. There's a segment where it shows solar panels installed along German's famous...

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ACTION DIARY: I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas...

All I want for Christmas is a safe, habitable world for generations to come - the gift that truly keeps on giving - is that too much to ask?  If there was a simple and effective way to take action,...

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ACTION DIARY:  I'm Still Dreaming of a Green Christmas...

This diary is a reprint from yesterday - I really want to get this message out, and spur some conversations about power choices during this holiday season.All I want for Christmas is a safe, habitable...

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ACTION DIARY: Yes, I'm Still Dreaming of a Green Christmas

This diary is a reprint from yesterday - I really want to get this message out, and spur some conversations about power choices during this holiday season.  Last night, my family gathered at my...

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Home Heating with Windpower -- Public Domain 'Invention'

Given the cost of heating homes in many colder climates, quite a few homeowners could use a cheap, renewable source of warmth to get them through the winter.So, take a small wind turbine like the ones...

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Energize America:  I made the front page of my local paper today!

As many of you know, I've been bundling donations for political candidates and advocating for green energy programs for a long time.  As part of the Energize America team and the Stranded Wind...

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Desperate Shortage of Critical Thinking

"We need nukes," shout the wingers."So do we," report the terrorists."What have you got against me?" asks Mother Earth.

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Green Energy: Waves of Ignorance

To the hackneyed cliche of wind and solar power, green power advocates sometimes add geothermal, more rarely biofuels and more rarely biomass.  That is without regard to the dangerous and polluting...

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GM Must Re-Make the Mass Transit System it Murdered

Bail Out GM?  The same people who murdered our mass transit system?First let them re-make what they destroyed.  

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A Ten-Point Solartopian Starter Agenda for the Age of Obama

A Ten-Point Solartopian Starter Agenda for the Age of Obamaby Harvey WassermanAmidst the ecstasy of the Obama Inauguration, there lurks great danger.  Merely inugurating a brilliant young leader who...

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Hard Times For Algae Farmer - Making Do Without Lettuce

Maybe some here remember this guy with his algae farm:Unlike more ambitious sorts, he talked about things taking awhile for algae oil and so there was a vegetable farm in the meantime:Scratch the...

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The Windmill - a Nouveau American Flagpole?

Regarding the rules and etiquette of diary posts, suffice it to say that i find my ability to contribute "fresh original analysis" inextricably linked to my profession as a songwriter. I thought I'd...

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Is This the End of the Age of the Automobile?

Is this the end of the age of the automobile?As a dominant form of transportation, the automobile is dead. So is GM, which now stands for Gone Mad.But the larger picture says that the financial crisis...

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UPDATE - Navy Scores Direct Hit On Duck Hunters

not to mention the ducks and other critters, like people fer instance.When last we left them, the Navy was training its big guns on Little lake.See Navy Shooting At Hunters With Geothermal Heat-Seeking...

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Carbon Sequestration is Totally Nonsense

My response to the comments on my previous post. I'll apologize for the way I express myself. I'm an engineer, not a writer. I won't apologize for  the analysis.

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Who Will Pay for America's Chernobyl Roulette?

Because the American reactor industry cannot get its own disaster insurance, we taxpayers are on the hook.

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The 8 Green Steps to Solartopia

The Eight Green Steps to Solartopia The noble vision of a Solartopian green-powered Earth is at last upon us.     Our eco-future is defined by the four Great Green Truths:  we have a global crisis, it...

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A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia

Harvey:  It’s an honor to be with the author of Ecotopia, which inspired me and so many others to become active on environmental issues.  It also inspired me to write Solartopia, What I’d like to talk...

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Obama seeks funding cuts for wave, tidal energy research

The Obama administration has proposed a 25 percent cut in the research and development budget for one of the most promising renewable energy sources in the Northwest - wave and tidal power.-The...

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