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• Three minutes in a Tesla 1

  Posted 3 months, 3 weeks agoTake a test drive in an all-electric Tesla Roadster.

• On EV street

  Tesla speeds past financial troubles, opens retail stores across country 11

  Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago

  Tesla Motors has rebounded from recent financial troubles and is starting to launch retail stores across the country. This weekend, they opened the doors of their Seattle showroom -- and their all-electric Roadsters.

• App-ily ever after

  Grist's guide to green iPhone apps 4

  Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago

  Now that you have the speedy new iPhone 3GS in hand, it's time to test the eco-brains of that smartphone.  Try out some of these iPhone apps that can do everything from count carbon emissions to plant trees to advise on what sushi NOT to eat. 

• Lowlights from the House climate debate 3

  Posted 4 months, 3 weeks agoThe Republican Party's anti-energy/climate bill message, boiled down to 30 seconds.

• A Thoreau report

  Anthology features Americans' personal stories of global warming 2

  Posted 5 months ago

  A joint project by Union for Concerned Scientists and Penguin Classics, "Thoreau's Legacy" explores the subtle and overt ways that global warming is changing the United States. The anthology is available for free online.

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  West Coast power grids heart EVs: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=110997398 Check out where your power comes from before you slam EVs.

  On Tesla speeds past financial troubles, opens retail stores across country posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago 11 Responses

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  Right.  The source of the electricity makes all the difference.  But check out this NPR graphic on the sources of electricity across the U.S. If you live in Washington, if definitely makes mores sense from a carbon-mitigation perspective to drive an electric car.  North Dakota? Not so much.

  On Slideshow: The plug-ins and electric vehicles of 2009 posted 5 months, 1 week ago 8 Responses

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  I think you just keep the license plate, if only for irony's sake.  Anyone who knows you won't consider your license plate as an indictment of your green cred., and most other drivers won't get the significance. 

  Consider it fate's way of letting you lead a small ironic protest everyday -- like billionaires for Bush but in a less flashy, more-DMV style.

  On Ask Umbra on license plates posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago 6 Responses

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  It's true.  Iskander tells a captivating story about a fascinating group of people.  It really is a must-see film.

  On 'Garbage Dreams' explores life in Cairo's garbage villages posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago 3 Responses