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The Swede Hereafter IKEA invests in cleantech, may soon stock solar panels		08 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 2:43 PM on 08 Aug 2008 Heading to IKEA for some meatballs and easy-to-assemble furniture? You may soon be able to pick up solar panels as well. The Swedish manufacturer plans to invest some $75 million in a handful of cleantech startups, focusing on the areas of solar energy, lighting, sustainable materials, energy efficiency, and water conservation. Ultimately, IKEA has a goal of stocking its shelves with prod ...
Topics: business, energy, energy at home, green living, green products, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, renewable energy, shopping, Sweden (all these topics)

Diode Another Day Advocates pushing LEDs into the spotlight		28 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:45 AM on 28 Jul 2008 Compact fluorescents have had their time in the sun; it's time to herald the era of LEDs, say advocates. Light-emitting diodes are bright, extremely long-lasting, über-efficient, and can color-shift by remote control (fun!). The bulbs shine in many traffic lights, colored the Times Square ball on New Year's Eve, may soon light up the Empire State Building, and are becoming the bulb of choice for commerc ...
Topics: business, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living, news (all these topics)

Quick Study More school districts consider four-day week		25 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 2:22 PM on 25 Jul 2008 As energy costs rise, rural school districts across the country may follow the lead of the 100 or so schools in 16 states that offer classes just four days a week. Cutting out a day of heating, cooling, and transportation fuel -- which can be significant in spread-out districts where school buses might travel 100 miles round trip each day -- allows schools to put funds toward valuable programs and staff. A ...
Topics: education, energy, green living, news (all these topics)

Invade in the Shade Trees win in California solar panels vs. redwoods dispute		23 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:40 AM on 23 Jul 2008 Trees have emerged victorious in a California dispute that pitted redwoods against solar panels. Six months ago, Silicon Valley residents Richard Treanor and Carolynn Bissett were criminally convicted because their redwoods shaded the 10-kilowatt solar system on neighbor Mark Vargas' roof. Ultimately, Treanor and Bissett were forced to trim their trees and paid $37,000 in legal fees. T ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, energy, energy at home, green living, insanity, litigation, news, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Do Not Pass Go Monopoly game gets hip to renewable energy		23 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:31 PM on 23 Apr 2008 Photo: goat_girl via Flickr Refuse to play Monopoly because you fear Electric Company sources its power from coal? Fear not! Game-maker Hasbro is updating everyone's favorite interminable game, and in the Here and Now: World Edition, Water Works and Electric Company will be replaced with Wind Energy and Solar Energy. It's "a nod to the efforts of countries worldwide to increase the effectiveness and ...
Topics: energy, green living, news, renewable energy (all these topics)

Starting to Tank Americans using less gasoline		03 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 1:41 PM on 03 Mar 2008 Well, it's finally happened: Americans are starting to use less gasoline. It took a weakened economy and record oil prices -- crude hit an all-time high of $103.95 a barrel Monday -- but in the past six weeks, U.S. gasoline consumption has fallen by an average 1.1 percent from 2007 levels, the most sustained drop in at least 16 years (excepting the dropoff that followed Hurricane Katrina). As Americans move to mitig ...
Topics: energy, green living, news, oil, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Electric Frock Researchers develop energy-generating clothing		15 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 12:49 PM on 15 Feb 2008 We like the idea of harvesting energy from our own movement, but wearing a knee brace just sounds too clunky. But now U.S. researchers publishing in Nature have developed a way to generate electricity from nanofibers woven into fabric. If the technology goes mainstream, we'll be able to generate energy just by getting dressed -- which, of course, we do every day. Except on Nude Friday. sources: Assoc ...
Topics: energy, energy at home, fashion, green living, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Don't Go Toward the Light Compact fluorescents can cause health problems, say groups		04 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 10:22 AM on 04 Jan 2008 As Australia, Britain, and the good ol' U.S. of A make plans to phase out traditional energy-sucking light bulbs, health concerns are being raised about compact fluorescents, the most popular alternative. The British Association of Dermatologists says CFLs can cause rashes on folks with photosensitive skin, the U.K. Migraine Action Association suggests that the bulbs can trigger ...
Topics: energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living, health, news (all these topics)

Ogle Cranky Academics Instead Top British scientist tells women to stop drooling over gas-guzzling males		19 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 2:18 PM on 19 Dec 2007 Hey ladies, wondering how to help fight climate change? It's simple: just stop encouraging men who waste resources! In particular, said U.K. climate scientist David King this week, "stop admiring young men in Ferraris." King's comments were immediately pounced upon -- not by feminists, but by Ferrari owners, who protested that their vehicles spew le ...
Topics: cars, climate, energy, funnies, green living, news, sex, United Kingdom (all these topics)

So That's Why It's Called an Evergreen Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be efficiently lit		21 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:40 PM on 21 Nov 2007 The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is up; once it's lit on Nov. 28, we can no longer deny that The Holiday Season is in full swing. We can, however, ogle the tree guilt-free, as the towering evergreen will be lit by energy-efficient LED bulbs and powered in part by solar energy. sources: Associated Press, amNewYork see also, in Grist: Times Square New Year's Eve ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, green living, holiday, news (all these topics)

Dropping the Ball Times Square New Year's Eve ball goes green		04 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 2:02 PM on 04 Oct 2007 The ball that drops in Times Square on New Year's Eve is -- say it with us now -- going green. This year, the 100th anniversary of the tradition, the fifth iteration of the ball will have an aluminum skeleton and be lit by energy-efficient LED lights. With 16 times as many lights, it will use half the wattage of the last ball. That's the power equivalent of 10 toasters toasting for six hours, for the ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, green living, holiday, news (all these topics)

Incandescent Descent China joins campaign to phase out incandescent bulbs		03 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:36 PM on 03 Oct 2007 China makes 70 percent of the world's light bulbs, and has just agreed to participate in a campaign to globally phase out inefficient bulbs over the next decade. But you didn't hear it from us: China's participation in the incandescent-hatin' campaign, which is being spearheaded by green funder Global Environment Facility, will be formally announced at the United Nations climate meeting in ...
Topics: China, energy, energy at home, green living, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Socket to Us Britain will phase out incandescent light bulbs		27 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:53 PM on 27 Sep 2007 Britain announced a voluntary initiative today that will phase out traditional incandescent light bulbs in the country by 2011. Officials predict that phasing in compact fluorescent lights will keep up to 5.5 million tons of carbon dioxide a year out of the atmosphere. Brilliant! "Britain is leading the way in getting rid of energy-guzzling light bulbs and helping consumers reduce their carbon foo ...
Topics: energy, energy at home, green living, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Go Get 'Em, Plugger Plug-in hybrids would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, says new study		23 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Go Get 'Em, Plugger Plug-in hybrids would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, says new study Plug-in hybrid vehicles, long extolled here at Grist HQ, seem always to elicit one question from doubters: Wouldn't running cars on electricity just mean more emissions from power plants? Answer: No! According to a ne ...
Topics: cars, climate, electric vehicles, electricity grid, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, news, placemaking (all these topics)

We Always Knew They'd Turn to Communism U.K. green-computing task force recommends centralizing data		11 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
We Always Knew They'd Turn to Communism U.K. green-computing task force recommends centralizing data A newly formed United Kingdom task force will work to reduce the energy-sucking impacts of computing equipment, which some say pumps as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere there as the airline industry. The public-private partnership, called "Green Shift," will study how to make PCs and th ...
Topics: e-waste, energy, green living, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

This Sounds Like a Job For ... Nobody Workaholics, especially American ones, are ruining the planet		22 May 2007	Daily Grist
This Sounds Like a Job For ... Nobody Workaholics, especially American ones, are ruining the planet Now here's a theory we can get behind: workaholism is ruining the earth. "We are proudly breaking our backs to decrease the carrying capacity of the planet," says Conrad Schmidt, proponent of the 32-hour work week, who declares that overwork leads to overconsumption, pollution, and less fulfilling life experie ...
Topics: business, energy, green living, news (all these topics)

Then There's the Short Term Long-term radiation risks lower than some daily hazards, study finds		03 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Then There's the Short Term Long-term radiation risks lower than some daily hazards, study finds Living in fear of a nuclear meltdown? Now you can relax! A new study says the long-term risks faced by survivors of two of the world's most notorious nuclear episodes -- the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 1945 bombings of Japan -- are lower than the risks caused by urban air pollution, obesity, and smoking. ...
Topics: energy, green living, health, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

Alternative School U.S. college students are, like, totally into clean energy		30 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Alternative School U.S. college students are, like, totally into clean energy In answer to the loathed question "What are you going to do after you graduate?" gaggles of U.S. college students are looking into careers in alternative energy. (A group of college students is called a gaggle, right?) Green technology is having a heyday in schools from Illinois State to Harvard to Dartmouth; en ...
Topics: education, energy, green living, news, renewable energy (all these topics)

Hey, One Thing At a Time NASCAR deals with switch to unleaded fuel, considers adding ethanol		27 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Hey, One Thing At a Time NASCAR deals with switch to unleaded fuel, considers adding ethanol As the NASCAR season gears up, fans are all atwitter. No, not about the Daytona 500 scandal -- that's so last week. It's the switch to that dang unleaded! This weekend saw the first-ever NASCAR race fueled by the gas the rest of the country's been using for health and environmental reasons since the 1980s, and it wasn' ...
Topics: energy, ethanol, green living, news, sports (all these topics)

The Choice of a New Generator Dirty diesel generators proliferate in developing countries		09 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
The Choice of a New Generator Dirty diesel generators proliferate in developing countries The good news: Access to electricity is spreading to previously unserved areas, allowing residents of rural villages to grow more crops with electrically powered irrigation pumps and connect to the rest of the world through television. The bad news: The most common power source for these communities is filthy diesel generators, which pollut ...
Topics: energy, green living, news (all these topics)

An Incandescent Truth Just change your dang light bulbs already		06 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
An Incandescent Truth Just change your dang light bulbs already If efficient, low-energy lighting were installed all around the world, global energy costs could be cut by nearly a tenth, says the International Energy Agency. The technology is widely available, would curb light pollution, and, according to a new IEA report, could keep up to 16 billion tons of carbon out of the atmosphere over the next quart ...
Topics: climate, energy, green living, Greenpeace, news (all these topics)

The Pinch of Tides Spiking utility costs may hit laundromat customers in the pocketbook		24 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
The Pinch of Tides Spiking utility costs may hit laundromat customers in the pocketbook Better start hoarding those quarters: Soaring energy rates are driving up the price of washing your stinky drawers. The Coin Laundry Association, a trade group representing about 5,000 "retail self-service laundries" nationwide, says its members are looking for ways to rein in skyrocketing utility bills. Laundro-operators are cuttin ...
Topics: energy, green living, news (all these topics)

Make That 'Vast, Energy-Sucking Wasteland' Electricity-hungry widescreen TVs spike home energy use		17 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Make That "Vast, Energy-Sucking Wasteland" Electricity-hungry widescreen TVs spike home energy use Jonesing for one of those technolicious, 61-inch, flat-screen, hi-def, make-your-morning-coffee televisions? It's gonna cost you -- right in the utility bill. The Natural Resources Defense Council predicts that if current design standards hold, TVs and related accoutrements (DVD players, etc.) will account for about 10 pe ...
Topics: energy, green living, news (all these topics)

Salarymen of the World: Untie! Japan adopts 'no-tie' look for summer to save energy		01 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Salarymen of the World: Untie! Japan adopts "no-tie" look for summer to save energy The paradigmatically propriety-conscious Japanese bureaucrat may be loosening up and dressing down, thanks to, well, orders from above. In an effort to conserve energy by reducing air-conditioner use, Japan's Environment Ministry today launched a campaign urging government workers to leave suit coats and ties at home. ...
Topics: climate, energy, green living, Japan, news (all these topics)

Is That a Fat Lady We Hear Singing? The era of cheap oil is coming to an end soon; duck!		21 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Is That a Fat Lady We Hear Singing? The era of cheap oil is coming to an end soon; duck! Cheap oil is running out. A report from the U.S. Energy Department's Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves puts the problem in stark terms: "The disparity between increasing production and declining discoveries can only have one outcome: a practical supply limit will be reached and future supply to meet conventional oil ...
Topics: energy, green living, news, oil (all these topics)

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