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Arlington, VA

By Elizabeth Johnson

Long before fuel prices commanded the attention they do now, planners in Arlington County, Virginia, created a well-organized transit system which dramatically reduces vehicle miles traveled today. This tradition of innovation continues with effective programs, impressive results, national awards and a broad view toward even gre...

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Public Schools' Poisoned Air

Right now, the researchers urge installations of air filtration systems for American schools with dangerous air pollution levels. The team surveyed 8,800 schools with 6 million children, according to healthNews, a UC publicaiton, and found 30% were at risk for asthma and other long term respiratory complications. Read more...

Running On Air

Jessica Marshall reports for Discovery News on compressed air innovations in Asia and America. Widespread use of compression engines would reduce smog and air pollution levels, but its environmental impact would hinge on the compression's energy source. Researchers at the University of Taiwan have developed a protoype scooter engine running completely...
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Asphalt Energy

A multi-disciplinary team of students and faculty from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts has designed an energy system below our feet: capturing the heat absorbed by blacktop.

By running an array of insulated copper tubes about an inch below the ground, the team captured solar energy cheaply and efficiently with asphalt, said Rajib M...

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Capitol Gets First Self Service Bike Program

The District of Columbia in Maryland's Department of Transportation and Clear Channel Outdoor will provide 100 bikes in the US's first public self-service bicycle rental program . For $40 a year, subscribers are issued a user card able to unlock the specifically designed SmartBike bicycles from 10 stations around the business district for three hours at ...
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World's First Smart Grid

The world’s first fully integrated smart electrical grid will be completed in Boulder, Colorado, by mid-2009, according to XCEL Energy, a utility serving eight states. In this trial, costing up to $100 million, XCEL and its partners plan a grid able to predict and prevent many outages, route power around outages, communicate with smart appliances...

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Renewable Energy Investment Skyrockets

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) reports that investments in renewable energy in 2007, at $148 billion, were 60 percent above 2006, with 2008 growth continuing. Achim Steiner, head of UNEP, said:

"The clean energy industry is maturing and its backers remain bullish. These findings should empower governments both North and South to reach a deep an... Read more...

NYC: Green Roofs Get a Tax Break

Green roofs look good, absorb tons of storm water and carbon dioxide, reduce noise, air pollution and stress, add a layer of insulation, and can extend the life of the roof by protecting it from ultraviolet rays. They can reduce home air conditioning costs by 10-20 percent while lowering peak demand. Each 10,000 square feet of green roof traps 6,00...

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Retail Giant Invests in Clean Tech

IKEA announced it will invest $74.5 million in green technology start up companies to develop commercially viable and ecologically responsible products. David Ehrlich at CleanTech.com reports the retail giant's GreenTech Fund will focus on five areas: solar, alternative lighting, product materials, and energy and water efficiency. With half a billion...

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Scarcity Returns Alaskans' Traditions

With oil over $120 a barrel, rural Alaskan towns are paying 11 times the national average for heating fuel, electricity and gasoline, and are expecting worse. "If we had to go to the store and buy everything, we'd probably be on food stamps by now if we didn't have our land and sea animals," North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta told the Associated P...

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Conversation with Mayor Dan Pike

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Dan Pike became Mayor of Bellingham, WA on November 27, 2007 . When he announced his Chief Administrative Officer would also be the city’s Sustainabi...

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Arlington, VA

Fast Forward

How Cities Can Eliminate Coal Based Electricity in the US

Jon Rynn shows how making new and existing buildings energy self-sufficient would eliminate the need for coal-fired power plants, and goes on to suggest how we ...

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Cities and Counties as Agents for Change

In Motion

A Game Changing Car?

It’s not the car that’s game-changing but the system, actually. Project Better Place asks, “How do you get a country completely off oil?” The answer: Give...

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Newsflashes

Public Schools' Poisoned Air

Right now, the researchers urge installations of air filtration systems for American schools with dangerous air pollution levels. The team surveyed 8,800 school...

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Cutting Energy and Carbon

The Town of Greenburgh has joined ICLEI and is committed to reducing our energy use and carbon footprint. A grant from NYS subsidized the cost of solar colle...

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Silver Bullet

Asphalt Energy

A multi-disciplinary team of students and faculty from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts has designed an energy system below our feet: capturin...

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