Shop, Collaborate, and Listen | Grist | News | 21 Dec 2007 Grist reports on studies that show that online shopping better for the earth than going to the mall. Besides lowering carbon dioxide emissions, a shopper can save time by online shopping because it reduces car trips and walking from store to store to …
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Left in the West: Solar cheaper than coal
Left in the West:: Solar cheaper than coal Solar power can now be more affordable now with new solar panels, even cheaper than coal. Imagine a solar panel without the panel. Just a coating, thin as a layer of paint, that takes light and converts it to electricity. From there, you can picture roof shingles …
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How Big Companies Get Their Solar for Free
How Big Companies Get Their Solar for Free | EcoGeek | Solar, Companies, Cells, Money, Have Ecogeek writes about how big companies have no cost on their solar projects because of solar power paying for itself with time and MMA Renewable Ventures. It turns out that a lot of solar projects big companies are putting …
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Solar powered Christmas lights alleviate wiring issues
Solar powered Christmas lights alleviate wiring issues – SlashGear Slash Gear provides an alternative; solar powered Christmas lights can help with the fuss with extension chords. …with these lights you won’t have that problem as they are solar powered. There are 50 LEDs on this chain of lights, and the solar panel charges up a …
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Nevada gets nation’s first solar power plant factory
Green Wombat: Nevada gets nation’s first solar power plant factory Green Wombat reports Silicon Valley startup Ausra is building the U.S.’s first solar power plant factory. When the 130,000-square-foot facility goes online in April outside Las Vegas, robots will assemble mirror arrays and other equipment that will then be trucked to solar power plant building …
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