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5 Young Social Entrepreneurs Win Rolex Laureate Awards
Five visionaries between the ages of 18-30 from the U.S., Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, and the Philippines have been selected to receive the Rolex Award...
Top Ten Innovations You’ve Never Heard Of
Here are the Top Ten Innovations from 2009 that will lead us, with chin up, into the next decade. From new technologies that strip...
University of Denver Students Launch Free Bike Lending Library
A student-led bike library opened Sept. 24 at the University of Denver offering high-tech bikes on loan for free, and a glimpse of the...
6 Alternative-Fuel Vehicles Built By Teenagers
These teens are making vehicles that run on everything from solar to soy! - Luke Laborde turned a 32 mpg gas-burning...
Electric Cars Poised to Give Auto Industry a Jolt
In the next year or so, after only a century or so of trying, the electric car may break free of the lunatic fringe...
Supermarket Powers Store Checkouts With Modified Speed Bumps
A British supermarket chain, Sainsbury's, opened a new store yesterday where the checkouts will be people-powered. The store features a new kinetic energy generator...
Montreal Inaugurates Largest Bike-Sharing Program in North America
Montreal inaugurated North America's first large-scale bicycle-sharing system this week. 30 times larger than the program in Washington, DC., tourists, shoppers and commuters can...
The i-house: A New Plug-and-Play Green Home For Under $100K
Clayton Homes' new industrial-chic "i-house" is about as far removed from a mobile home as an iPod from a record player. ...
Special Report: The Best News for Planet Earth in Decades
I asked one question to leading environmentalists who are usually keen to point out what is wrong with the environment: What is...
Michigan Semi-conductor Plant Posts Double-digit Profits
Michigan is an unlikely home for a solar powerhouse, but in early February 2009, when the Dow Corning Corporation announced it had produced...
Top Ten Innovations From 2008
Any list of the top achievements in science and energy is a list that glows with promise and hope. During the year 2008 we...
Green Visionaries Unveil Plan for World’s First Carbon-Neutral, Waste-Free, Car-Free City
Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, is awash in profitable oil reserves yet pouring billions into renewable- and sustainable-energy technologies...
Forget the Zoos, Let’s Go to the Robotarium
I can imagine my kids screaming in the back seat, "Robotarium! Robotarium!" Their obsession demands a visit to the first zoo ever created to...
Earth’s Air Pressure Propels Clean Energy Plant
In a sci-fi approach to providing clean energy, a consortium of Iowa power companies is planning to fill a big underground hole with pressurized...
Homegrown Power a Fix for Energy Crunch and Global Warming
Homegrown electricity could be one ingredient used to combat the 21st century’s expected energy crunch, easing the load on electrical grids with a system...
Polar Robot to Roam South Pole doing Science Experiments
Look at the Cool Robot! That's the name for the new solar-powered mobile science station built by Dartmouth students and faculty to specifically withstand...