People are taking “living green” more seriously than ever and being eco-friendly this holiday season is taking on more emphasis – especially in choosing a Christmas Tree. Should you buy a fresh Christmas Tree or an artificial one? The optimal living green choice would be not have a Christmas Tree at all. You could decorate [...]

New York City has just passed legislation that is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 30% by 2030. Mayor Michael Bloomberg hails the passing of this green energy bill because it will significantly reduce the city’s carbon count by making buildings more energy efficient. According to a report released by the Bloomberg administration in 2007, [...]

Have you ever thought about all the household appliances and electronic devices you leave plugged in? Did you know that many appliances, such as TVs, Cable boxes, VCRs, DVD players, computers and kitchen appliances continue to draw a small amount of power when they are switched off? The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that in [...]

A Florida neighborhood is using the sun to “see the light”. The Turtle Rock neighborhood in Palmer Ranch (Sarasota) may very well be the first in the nation to install solar-powered street lights. The community of Turtle Rock decided to switch from natural gas powered street lamps after last year’s spike in fuel prices. “Our [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]