A supermarket in Gloucester, U.K. has come up with a novel approach to saving energy by harnessing energy from passing vehicles to power the store’s checkouts.
The store has installed kinetic road plates in the store’s parking lot. Whenever a vehicle drives over these plates, they are pushed down by the vehicles weight. This causes rocking [...]

The world’s leading search engine is positioning itself to take over a whole market if current research into renewable energy pays off.
An executive in charge of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) green energy programs, Bill Weihl, told Reuters recently that the company could have “multiple megawatts” of clean power being generated in just a few years.
Google is [...]

Do you use common household products like air fresheners, fabric softeners, laundry detergents and dryer sheets? If so, you are unintentionally poisoning you and your family.
More and more scientific studies are being done on these products, especially those that have perfume in it. Believe it or not, the toxins used to bring out [...]

For the first time ever, green energy surpassed fossil fuels in attracting investment for power generation, according to figures released today by the United Nations.
Clean technologies such as wind, solar attracted more than $140 billion compared with $110 billion for gas and coal for electrical power generation. More than a third of the investment [...]

While most car companies are focused on bringing electric vehicles to the market, one French startup is working on a production car powered by compressed air and a small conventional engine.
Zero Pollution Motors is planning on bringing their compressed air car to U.S. roads by early 2011.
ZPM Chief Executive Shiva Vencat said the ultimate goal is [...]

Barack Obama economic stimulus package calls for significant investment in alternative energy tchnologies.  One very interesting  part of this plan has nothing directly to do with developing specific alternative energy, instead it calls for renewable energy power grid can will be more efficient then those in existance today.
A substantial increase in the amount of electricity [...]

Barack Obama has stated he’s a big Star Trek fan. What’s funny, he would make a believable body double for actor Tim Russ as the Vulcan, Tuvok on the Star Trek: Voyager television series. But it’s the Vulcan salute “Live Long And Prosper” that Obama can spin and use as America’s new salute toward the [...]

President Barack Obama wants America to charge into the future with alternative energy technology and greener living. One of the ways that you can do your part and make some money at the same time is to recharge batteries.
I know it might sound silly but there is a very big market in it. Thing about [...]

Barack Obama is betting on public universities to help America get off fossil-fuels and invest new alternative green techologies. According to the President’s stimulus plan, $150 billion will be invested over the next 10 years to develop new clean-energy technologies, and a significant portion of this sum will go to public research universities.
Much of the [...]

Miley Cyrus, the daughter of singer Billy Ray Cyrus, star of the hit kid television show Hannah Montana is also a talented singer. She got a “green” Sweet 16 birthday present that is out of this world. Here dad, Billy Ray “Elvira” Cyrus gave his beautiful daughter a brand spanking new black Prius hybrid. Two [...]