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'Coming Clean' Book Offers Solutions, Tools, Hope to Break America's Fossil Fuel Addiction

'Purging this country of its two-century addiction to fossil fuels is the great task of our time. Here is the resource we have long needed.' - Bill McKibben, environmentalist and bestselling author

15 Sep 2008

Most Car Buyers Considering Downsizing to a Smaller Car to Save Money

Even as gas prices drifted down during August, 44percent of the car shoppers on AutoTrader.com responded in a recent survey that they are still considering downsizing to a smaller car

15 Sep 2008

Hypermiling Fuel Efficient Drivers Well on the Way to Setting Low Fuel Consumption World Record

Two of the world's most fuel efficient drivers, John and Helen Taylor, are a third of the way through their attempt to break the current world record for lowest fuel consumption across the 48 contiguous United States

15 Sep 2008

Facts and Figures on How The US Corn Crop is Used for Food and Ethanol

The American farmer and the American ethanol producer have been under attack, criticized for seeking to capitalize on the productivity and bounty of American agriculture to help solve this nation’s energy crisis

14 Sep 2008

OPEC May Dissolve as Saudi Arabia Walks Out of OPEC Meeting

Saudi Arabia, the world's largest exporter of crude oil, has walked out of an OPEC meeting, looks set to ignore the wishes of OPEC and go it alone, supplying oil as they see fit

11 Sep 2008

2008 AlwaysOn Going Green 100 Awards

Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and its Global Network of Funds, the most active global cleantech investors, today announced that fifteen of their portfolio companies were recognized as finalists in the AlwaysOn 2008 Going Green 100 Awards

10 Sep 2008

Toxic Soils can be Cleaned by Oil Seed Rape Grown For Biofuel

Oil seed rape grown for biofuel in Ireland could help clean up contaminated soils, scientists heard today

10 Sep 2008

Jet Fuel Produced From Algae by Solazyme

Solazyme has announced that it has produced the world’s first microbial derived jet fuel

10 Sep 2008

Bacteria in Compost Could Provide 10 Percent of Transport Fuel for the UK

Bacteria found in compost heaps able to convert waste plant fibre into ethanol could eventually provide up 10percent of the UK's transport fuel needs

8 Sep 2008

Enzyme Discovery Could Lead to The Development of New Biofuels

U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has discovered a fundamental shift in an enzyme's function that could help expand the toolbox for engineering biofuels and other plant based oil products

8 Sep 2008