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Solar Powered Roads Can Collect Electricity, Melt Snow, and Wake Sleepy Drivers
An Idaho man envisioned "electric roads" way back in his early childhood. Now, in his own state-of-the-art electronics lab, he is building the panels...
40 Victories Since the First Earth Day: 40th Anniversary Timeline
Since the first Earth Day 40 years ago, America has become a cleaner, safer, more beautiful place with less pollution, more pristine rivers, fewer...
Chain of Offshore Wind Turbines Could Power Atlantic Seaboard
Individual wind turbines and even whole wind farms remain at the mercy of local weather for how much electricity they can generate. But...
New Water Standards Challenge Mountaintop Mining
Last week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tightened water-quality standards for Appalachian streams affected by mountaintop mining. The new standards would likely curtail many...
China Rescues 115 Miners Trapped for 8 Days
More than 100 Chinese miners were pulled out alive Monday after being trapped for over a week in a flooded coal mine, where...
Could Chicken Manure Help Save the World?
Here's a low-cost solution to global warming and a host of other problems: chicken manure. At Josh Frye's poultry farm in West...
Solar Ovens to Aid Starving Haitians
Illinois businessman Paul Munsen believes the ever-present sunshine in Haiti is a tool for relieving some of the suffering of a people left in...
Company to Recycle Carbon Dioxide into Gasoline
Until we live in a society dominated by hydrogen and electric vehicles, new bio-fuel and carbon capture technologies can help us lower our dependence...
Out of Black Polluted Rivers, A Giant Leap for British Salmon
Coal pollution turned rivers black in South Wales, with mining waste so thick that no life could survive. But, in...
CEO of the Year: Company Pours Faith, Resources into Historic Colorado Town
From a home-based startup in 1991, Danielson Designs has become one of the largest private employers in Las Animas County. Over the past...
Sierra Club List of Successes in 2009
The Sierra Club, its volunteers, supporters, and petitions, helped demand progress in conservation policies across the U.S. in 2009. Here are some of...
Restaurant Owner Leads Community in Offering Free Thanksgiving Banquet for East Harlem
East Harlem restaurant owner Kevin Walters is not only known for his business savvy, he has a deep appreciation for and commitment to the...
Firemen Deliver Pizza With Smoke Detectors
Not only do the brave firefighters in Wausau, Wis. help to save lives, they are helping to deliver pizza! The fire...
Canadian Soldiers Adopt Lone Monkey in Kanduhar
A little monkey named Lucy has become the apple of the eye of a group of Canadian soldiers working out of Kandahar Airfield....
Advertising Leaders Launch “Hopenhagen” Campaign to Inspire Action in Copenhagen
On December 7, leaders from 192 countries will gather at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to determine the fate of our planet....
Hundreds of Thousands to Participate in National Day of Service Tomorrow
Inspired by the massive outpouring of volunteers helping out in the days and months after the World Trade Center tragedy, Congress and the President...
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...
Stimulus Money Helps Revive Summer Youth Jobs Programs
School’s out and young job seekers across the country have less than a 30 percent chance of finding work. For disadvantaged youth and high...
US, China Launch Clean Vehicle, Building Project
China and the United States, the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, launched a joint research effort today to...
Clean Energy Economy Yields Significant Job Growth at all Skill Levels
The number of jobs in America’s emerging clean energy economy grew nearly two and a half times faster than overall jobs between 1998 and...