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Southern California Getting Electric Bus Public Transportation

Southern California Getting Electric Bus Public Transportation

Southern California’s San Gabriel/Pomona area is about to get a whole lot greener, as the Foothill bus company is upgrading their fleet of 12 with three all-electric buses built by the company Proterra, to the tune [...]

Enphase Energy’s Environ Smart Thermostat Monitors Your Solar Energy

Enphase Energy’s Environ Smart Thermostat Monitors Your Solar Energy

Enphase Energy’s Environ Smart Thermostat may be the future of home energy monitoring. Owners can use a web-based application on their computers or smartphones to control thermostat controls, and importantly, solar panel energy production. It works through Enphase [...]

Solar-Powered Impulse Plane Attempts First 24 Hour Flight (video)

Solar-Powered Impulse Plane Attempts First 24 Hour Flight (video)

The Solar Impulse, a solar-powered single person plane that uses 12,000 solar cells to achieve flight, is in the middle of its first 24 hour flight attempt. If successful, it could pave the way for using [...]

Lexon Safe Bamboo And Bio-plastic Gear

Lexon Safe Bamboo And Bio-plastic Gear

Lexon’s line of aesthetically pleasing bamboo and bio-plastic gadgets is easy on the environment and cool on the eyes.  These solar powered and renewable energy mini-appliances will look positively earth awesome in your place.  No word [...]

Portugal’s Wave Farm Goes Live

Portugal’s Wave Farm Goes Live

Green energy is all well and good, it’s just finding enough of it to make it viable.  The Pelamis Wave Power project is the real deal and has the potential to power hundreds of thousands of [...]