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When Tesla Motors Inc. began taking orders last year for its all-electric sports car, celebrities lined up to purchase the sleek zero-emission vehicle with the six-digit sticker price. But with plans in the works for a new headquarters and factory, the Silicon Valley startup hopes it’s taking the first step toward making electric cars a [...]

From Time Magazine:  Carmel, Ind., is driving in circles. Since 2001, the Indianapolis suburb has built 50 roundabouts, those circular alternatives to street intersections that have become a transit fixture in much of the rest of the world. Because roundabouts force cars to travel through a crossroads in a slower but more free-flowing manner — [...]

A coalition of labor and environmental groups has a plan for boosting America’s sluggish economy: persuade Uncle Sam to invest $100 billion in green building and technology. Such an infusion would create 2 million jobs nationwide in two years, the groups say, four times more than would be created if that money was invested in [...]

As sustainability awareness becomes second nature in the business world, more companies are coming up with ways to target environmentally conscious customers even if their primary business isn’t making eco-products such as solar cells or organic foods. The 100 vendors at the recent GreenSummit convention in downtown Phoenix offered examples of the growing diversity: a [...]

Our first real post has to do with an organization called "We".  The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection — a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. The goal of the Alliance is to build a movement that creates the political will to solve [...]

The picture above is the Four Peaks Wilderness just northeast of Phoenix, Arizona.   It was take in 2006.  This is a rare view of these mountains as recent warming trends have not allowed snow this deep and widespread for many years.  It’s a good example of why we are "going green" with this blog. We [...]