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If You Really Want To Get Off Oil, Move To Buffalo

A few years ago, Wired Magazine published an interesting map showing carbon footprint per capita that graphically demonstrated the obvious: Where you get sprawl, lots of cars and air conditioning, you get a much bigger footprint for every citizen due to their higher energy consumption. So if we want to reduce our footprint and get off oil, what is the best thing for Americans to do? Move to Buffalo…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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If You Really Want To Get Off Oil, Move To Buffalo

Land Art Meets Clean Energy In 5,000 MW-Generating Desert Sculpture

Images: Decker Yeadon LLC Contrary to popular belief, green energy doesn’t have to be ugly , so it’s encouraging when we see architects, landscape designers, artists, engineers and scientists working together to transform large projects that could be potential eyesores into works of wonder. We have some estimates of how much of the earth’s surfaces might be needed by 2030 … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Land Art Meets Clean Energy In 5,000 MW-Generating Desert Sculpture