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Oregon Public Broadcasting recently aired a segment on John “Plasma Boy” Wayland’s White Zombie – an electric conversion of a 1972 Datsun 1200. Watch the video below to see how quick this DC electric home conversion runs against the gasoline muscle car competition. Enthusiasts like John are showing the performance potential of electric vehicles and [...]

A crane hoisted 166 solar water-heating panels Monday to the roof of the Hyatt in Scottsdale, the beginning of an environmental initiative that could expand through the hotel chain. The Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa at Gainey Ranch is spending $575,000 on a system that, by year’s end, will be capable of heating 100,000 [...]

It may be the season of kindness and generosity, but there’s a civil war raging within the Christmas-tree industry. Artificial-tree companies have been known to perpetuate the myth that once-living Christmas trees contribute to deforestation. Tree farmers love to point out that the first artificial Christmas trees resembled large green toilet-bowl brushes. And a third [...]

WASHINGTON – The amount of U.S. greenhouse gases flowing into the atmosphere, mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, increased last year by 1.4 percent after a decline in 2006, the Energy Department reported Wednesday. The report said carbon dioxide, the leading pollution linked to global warming, rose by 1.3 percent in 2007 as people [...]