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Students Get Solar-powerednew

Students on Denver's Auraria Campus are trying to build the largest solar-energy project on a college campus outside of California -- on May 30, they'll find out if the Public Utilities Commission is going to quash their effort.
Westword  |  Jessica Centers  |  05-21-2007  |  Environment

Orlando's Plan to Generate Power from Garbage May Be a Boondogglenew

Thermoselect says its "gasification" process doesn't create harmful emissions or enlarge the city's carbon footprint; it would even eliminate the need to separate recyclables from household garbage -- if that sounds too good be true, well, it might be.
Orlando Weekly  |  Billy Manes  |  05-21-2007  |  Environment

Heat Wave Survival Guidenew

Gear for this summer of global warming.
Los Angeles CityBeat  |  Allison Milionis  |  05-18-2007  |  Environment

Burning Green: Back Off, Petro!new

Clean, green biofuels are taking over Memphis, one engine at a time.
The Memphis Flyer  |  Bianca Phillips  |  05-18-2007  |  Environment

A Mighty (Portland) Windnew

Look which utility is blowing its influence into the renewable energy bill.
Willamette Week  |  Nigel Jaquiss  |  05-16-2007  |  Environment

Will Virginia Go Green?new

Thirty-one states joined forces last week to track and reduce greenhouse gases -- will Virginia make it 32?
Port Folio Weekly  |  Jennifer C. O'Donnell  |  05-16-2007  |  Environment

Let the Sunshine Innew

When power-tripping homeowner associations push solar-minded residents around, everybody pays the price.
Phoenix New Times  |  Sarah Fenske  |  05-14-2007  |  Environment

Crisis for Honeybees -- and Our Foodnew

Q & A with David Tarpy, entomology professor.
INDY Week  |  Fiona Morgan  |  05-10-2007  |  Environment

Getting Dirty At the Promnew

Cape Elizabeth High School students are riding a bus to their "Green Prom" this Saturday -- those who aren't arriving in stretch Escalades, that is.
Portland Phoenix  |  Hannah Jones  |  05-10-2007  |  Environment

Flirting with Solarnew

What does it take to get into bed with renewable energy's biggest tease?
Dig Boston  |  Julia Reischel  |  05-10-2007  |  Environment

The Dead Zonenew

Closing the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet could return life to a part of Lake Pontchartrain that is barren because of saltwater intrusion.
Gambit  |  Troy Gilbert  |  05-08-2007  |  Environment

New Laws Equate Environmentalists With al Qaedanew

The green scare: Rod Coronado gave a talk in San Diego and the feds called his words "terrorism."
Los Angeles CityBeat  |  Dean Kuipers  |  05-04-2007  |  Environment

Gas Ain't Forevernew

Mississippi has joined an initiative to find alternatives to fossil fuels.
Jackson Free Press  |  Adam Lynch  |  05-02-2007  |  Environment

The Downside of Biofuelnew

Bush says ethanol may save the world -- but the biofuel could prove problematic to the Chesapeake Bay, and Virginia's bottom line.
Port Folio Weekly  |  Jennifer C. O'Donnell  |  05-02-2007  |  Environment

Harold Wanless, Global Warming Pioneernew

Twenty-seven years before the greenhouse effect began making daily headlines across the United States, the University of Miami geology professor started charting rising sea levels.
Miami New Times  |  Emily Witt  |  04-30-2007  |  Environment

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