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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

Environmentally Friendly Weddings With Recycled Wedding Rings

The longstanding bridal tradition of wearing something old is being reinterpreted through wedding rings. Ecological jeweler greenKarat is using old family jewelry to make personalized wedding bands

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

Owens Corning Releases Tool Kit to Promote Re-Insulation

Owens Corning, a world leader in building materials and glass fiber reinforcements, today launched a full set of business solutions to help its building materials customers easily, efficiently and profitably enter an emerging and growing market category -- re-insulation

11 Sep 2008

Solar Mirrors for Renewable Energy Industry Improved by Arch Aluminum and Glass

Arch Aluminum and Glass Co., Inc. has developed innovative new mirror manufacturing techniques to meet the demand for lower cost and more efficient concentrator photovoltaic units in the burgeoning renewable energy industry

11 Sep 2008

Optoelectronics Forum Examines the Role of Photonics in Our Sustainable Future

The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) concluded its Green Photonics forum today examining the role of optoelectronics in a sustainable future

11 Sep 2008

Photovoltech Will Double Its Photovoltaic Cell Production Plant Capacity

Photovoltech announces that it will increase the photovoltaic cell production capacity of its plant in Tienen, Belgium, from 140 MWp1 by end-2009 to 260 MWp by end 2010. For this a new production plant will be built at the present site

11 Sep 2008

Government Acceleration of Energy Saving Targets Encouraged by Disenco Energy

Disenco Energy welcomes Prime Minister Gordon Brown's initiatives to provide £910 million in fuel measures to address rising energy costs, but agrees with consumer groups that much more must be done to combat the soaring burden of home energy fuel bills

11 Sep 2008