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Originally Published August 25, 2008; Updated and Republished September 01, 2008; Updated and Republished October 06, 2008:Time to stop demonstrating fuel cell technology and begin making the national investment and commitment which will ensure its i… more »

The “worker bees” are abandoning their queens by the billions – perhaps they are seeking higher wages, profit sharing, heath care coverage, and a little respect?Researchers are baffled by the fact that all the female “worker bees” (99% of the worker… more »

China's BYD, a former battery manufacturer1 is taking aim at the global hybrid vehicle market.[youtube]zedYfs5iScQ[/youtube]Web: Hybrid-Plugin-Electric News (see Wikipedia for list of hybrids vehicles):UPDATED 08/11/2009 NYT, G.M. Puts… more »

Those who think we can live in a bubble rather than adopt sensible and sustainable global growth policies should begin their design work immediately:"What we do today about climate change has consequences that will last a century or more. The part of… more »

League of American Bicyclists is out with its list of United States bicycle friendly communities (28K pdf).Communities are rated in the five categories (Five "Es") of engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement, and evaluation and planning.… more »

Our Department of Energy (DOE)1 is sponsoring a lighting prize (l-prize) contest for a more efficient, luminous, and reliable light bulb.Philips Electronics2 is the first company to submit a candidate lamp (actually thousands of lamps) for rigorous t… more »

While we wastes resources, effort, capital, human life, and global good will on King Bush the Idiot's Afghanistan and Iraq War debacles, wars of a different type are heating up (literally).Economic wars and the choice of weapon for the initial skirmi… more »

Kudos to the United States Department of Energy (DOE), non-Profit Solar Decathlon, all 20 universities, and interested public whose attendance significantly increased over the 2005 Solar Decathlon attendance.Congratulations to Technische Universität… more »

World leaders and nations gather this month in New York for the 64th session of the General Assemble of the United Nations—several urgent global problems are on the agenda: Climate Change; Disarmament; and Nuclear Test Ban.Fortunately our presid… more »

China's Ministry of Water Resources has declared a grade IV water emergency for the drought stricken Province of Hunan. Res: China Bureau Hydrology, River and rainfall information Falling Rain, Directory of Cities and Towns in Hunan Sheng, Chi… more »