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• Green home makeover will cost up to £15,000, says climate watchdog chief

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The head of Britains climate change watchdog predicted today that households will need to spend up to £15,000 on a full energy efficiency makeover if the government is to meet its ambitious targets for cutting carbon emissions. Warning that Britain needs to step up its efforts to reduce greenhouse gases after ...
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• Latin America must cut emissions too | Henry Mance

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Middle-income countries are threatening the climate change deal they need by opposing mandatory cuts on principle When it comes to climate change negotiations , rich countries receive the brunt of the criticism. Some heat has been applied to the emerging heavyweights – China, India and Brazil – too. In contrast, ...
  3 hours ago

• The "best" technology does not always win

  
  Cleantech Group - Latest clean technology news — Authority: 572
  Cleantech Groups Greg Neichin reflects on the hurdles of bringing breakthrough technology to market versus those with the right mix of ease of implementation and return.
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• Garmin Eco-Route Add-on Turns Your GPS Into a Green-Driving Teacher

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 722
  Image: Garmin Knowledge is Power Most of us probably dont realize that over the past few years our cars have turned into computers on wheels. There are tons of sensors everywhere, but most of that information isnt available to the driver. Thats a shame, because if it was parsed through a user-intuitive interface, it ...
  3 hours ago

• Road Trains: Autopilot Driving System Cuts Fuel Consumption, Travel Time

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 722
  Image via Earth2Tech Its one of those ideas that crosses your mind while youre stuck in never-ending stop and go traffic on some ugly stretch of the highway: what if there were some sort of a sensor that could put all of those cars into lockstep? Some sort of automated driving system that would keep that SOB from ...
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• EcoBoost: Ford’s Near-term Answer to Lowering Emissions Without Forfeiting Performance

  
  Gas 2.0 — Authority: 587
  Editor’s Note: Corey Weaver is a Ford Technical Expert and EcoBoost’s project leader. One of the great challenges for automakers today is determining which technology or group of technologies will be the most effective in increasing fuel-efficiency and lowering greenhouse emissions - while still meeting the ...
  4 hours ago

• electrical code questions

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 158
  Hello,I have the following electrical code questions. My areauses the 1999 NEC.1) does the primary light fixture in the kitchen have tobe energy efficient? if it does, what IS an energy efficientfixture?2) do all closets have to have lights? can these lightsbe a pull chain light or do they have to have a switch?(I ...
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• 1,000,000 Energy Star Home Owners Cant Be Wrong

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 722
  Image via Norcal Blogs The Energy Star program hit a milestone today--the one millionth efficient home that earned the blue label wrapped building. Thats right--the number of pointedly energy efficient homes in the US has hit the seven digit range. And though this comes on the heels of some unfortunate news about ...
  5 hours ago

• ‘Tio’ Light Switch System Teaches Kids to Conserve Household Energy

  
  Inhabitots — Authority: 528
  Kids will be the world’s key decision-makers in the next 30 years, which is why it is crucial that we empower them now with the education and the tools to help reduce energy consumption. Designer Tim Holley’s Tio ghost is a wall-mounted light switch system which enables children to demonstrate their ...
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• Air Filter

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 158
  Folks:My son has a 2004 jeep wrangler with 28,000 miles.Recentlyhe changed his oil and installed a new air filter.The air filteris a k&n high flow filter.The filter people claim this high flow gives more horsepower and increased combustion efficiency.What he has noticed is a five degree rise in his engine ...
  6 hours ago

• Wireless Road Trains Keep Highway Vehicles Linked Together

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 745
  What if you could drive onto the highway, take your hands off the wheel, and sit back and read a book? That might not be as far-fetched as you might think if an EU-financed research project is successful. The project, dubbed SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) wants to link vehicles together in eight-car ...
  6 hours ago

• Video: “Using PPC Data to Improve SEO Efficiency”

  
  Web Liquid | thinking:returns Web Liquid | thinking:returns — Authority: 108
  If you’ve ever done any paid search advertising, chances are you’re sitting on a gold mine of insightful data.  Based on the premise that a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) campaign is far more likely to generate a strong return if it is seeded with Pay-Per-Click (PPC) data… we have assembled a two-part video ...
  6 hours ago

• Carbon could prove the ‘good guy’ for better heating, cooling

  
  Greenbang — Authority: 564
  Carbon could go from villain to hero, according to researchers who have developed a better way to use “adsorption technology” to drive more efficient heaters and air conditioners. The process involves using carbon to adsorb a refrigerant — essentially causing it to cling to the carbon’s surface, rather than ...
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• The Best of Fast Company: BPs Bid to Move Beyond Petroleum, Growing Algae in Abandoned Mines, and a Green Makeover for the Humvee

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 722
  This week at Fast Company, we looked at BPs move into next-generation biofuels, a plan to grow algae quickly and efficiently in abandoned mines, EnerDels hybrid makeover of the Humvee, and the worlds tallest green building.BP has long used the tagline "Beyond Petroleum." Now that the oil company is betting big on ...
  7 hours ago

• Save money by replacing incandescent holiday lights with LED versions

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 501
  If your holiday lights have seen better days , you might want to replace incandescent versions with more-efficient and more-durable LED lights . Our tests of mini, C7, and C9 holiday lights showed that while incandescent versions did burn more brightly than LEDs, the LEDs were much more durable, ran cooler and ...
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• How Second Place (or Third) Can Mean a Win for Designers Everywhere

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 628
  The Cooper Hewitt Peoples Choice Award was the only category in the Smithsonian Institutions recent National Design Awards to be opened to public voting, and over 6,000 designers, consumers, and interested citizens spoke up. Some of the biggest design names in the country were nominated. But it was an independently ...
  8 hours ago

• Financing Challenges for Geothermal Power

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 744
  A study by an Icelandic bank assesses the potential for geothermal power development in the United States.
  9 hours ago

• 3 Things a Day

  
  Fabulously Broke ....in the City — Authority: 640
  Ever feel like your To Do list is getting out of control? Have a million things on there? Cut the crap and…. Do 3 things a day. Every morning, I make a quick list. I try to vary it by picking a task in each category: Household, Blog, Personal, Work. For example, today is: Laundry and Ironing Clean up ...
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• Get Ready for Road Trains in Europe

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 476
  Heres one novel way to save fuel economy--put a bunch of cars together and let them draft each other, NASCAR-style. Soon, that will become a reality, at least in Europe. An EU-financed research project is checking out inexpensive ways of getting cars and trucks to travel in a platoon on highways, linking together ...
  10 hours ago

• Philly’s Comcast Center Now Tallest U.S. LEED Building

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  At 58 stories, the Comcast Center in downtown Philadelphia has earned the title of tallest LEED certified building in the United States.The building recently earned LEED Gold status for its core and shell, reports Inhabitat.The building, which stands 975 feet tall, takes advantage of high performance glass and ...
  11 hours ago

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