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Millions Of Electric Vehicles Are Hidden In Plain Sight

Cushman custom electric passenger vehicle, manufactured in Augusta, Georgia, USA. Image credit: Cushman Anyone who’s been to a golf course has seen electric golf carts. If you fly, you’ll have seen electric vehicles transporting older or disabled passengers across the terminal. Amusement parks and big hotels have them as well. Variations on these familiar but overlooked designs – representing a category known to industry as ‘electric utility vehicles’ – exist for dozens of uses. There are ambulances, “stock chasers,” lunch carts, “bell hops,” and so on. For a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Solar Powered Oddities (Video)

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Wikileaks Reveals Hushed Concern Over Tar Sands Oil in US State Dept.

Photo: Jungbim , Wikimedia, CC Not all of the cables aired in the latest Wikileaks focus on the tense, high-stakes diplomacy with China, Afghanistan, or the Middle East, though that stuff certainly grabs the headlines. Yet there are quiet revelations about other important diplomatic subjects as well — like Canada, for instance. And no, the news is not that our northern neighbor is boring ; it’s about concern over tar sands…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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China May Submit to Binding Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Target!

Until this point, despite having the environmental impact and energy consumption of a wealthy nation, China has maintained that it is a developing nation and as such would not submit to any binding emission reductions. Photo: Ricky Qi / Creative Commons . Some truly interesting news coming out of the COP16 climate talks in Cancun:

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The Pope Wants a Solar-Powered Popemobile

Photo Catholic Westminster via flickr and Creative Commons license . Pope Benedictus XVI wants to replace his gas-driven ‘Popemobile’ (the ‘Papamobile’ in Italian) with a solar-powered version, according to a cardinal of the Vatican. Benedictus wants to show his concern for the environment. But that’s not all. The Vatican has unveiled a book of the Catholic city-state’s other eco-projects, including the installation of 2,700 solar panels on an ‘audience hall’ in 2008, a solar cooling unit in the cafeteria, and other smaller pr… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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China’s Largest Solar Panel Maker Expect Sales to Climb 20% in 2011

Photo: Suntech Power Suntech Plans to Make 2.4 GIGAWATTS of Panels in 2011 Not all news out of China today is bad . The Middle Kingdom’s largest solar panel maker, Suntech Power Holdings , has come out with its sales projections for 2011 and they forecast a healthy solar power market (though not quite as ebullient a a few years ago). … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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China to Hit 500 GW of Renewable Power by 2020

Photo: 林 慕尧 / Chris Lim , Wikimedia, CC Energy hawks — hell, all of us, really — have no doubt gotten a little tired of hearing about how much investment China is dumping into clean energy compared to the United States. Yes, we are severely lagging in the renewable sector, and yes, China is poised to eat our lunch in solar and wind — China has just set a new goal to get 500 GW of renewable power on the grid by 2020. No, we’re nowhere near that number — and we certainly won’t be if we continue on our current trajectory. But there’s still a lot to learn from Ch… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Norman Foster To Design Apple City In Cupertino

Mercury News Apple has been assembling land in Cupertino for a while, and just acquired a bit Hewlett Packard property two miles away from its current base. Now a Spanish newspaper breaks the news that Norman Foster, architect of Masdar, has been hired to des… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Wool "Barefoot" Slippers by Top-Felt Can be Worn Year Round

Photo: Top Felt There’s something about the weather cooling that has me seeking the perfect pair of slippers. Granted, my last two posts on cute, cozy slippers for WeeHuggers and handmade kids booties hardly fit, these industrial wool felt slippers by Top-Felt just might be the ticket! Their aesthetic is si… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Empathy The Most Important Survival Skill of the 21st Century? John Marshall Roberts Thinks So (Video)

From a psychological and metaphysical perspective global climate change, just a symptom of the greater problem of unsustainable resource usage by humans, isn’t a problem of greenhouse gases, it’s a problem of lack of empathy and the triumph of cynicism. I’ve written about this many times on… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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