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The Pickens Plan Video »

America is in a hole and it’s getting deeper every day. We import 70% of our oil at a cost of $700 billion a year - four times the annual cost of the Iraq war. If we create a new renewable energy network, we can break our addiction to foreign oil. On January 20, 2009, [...]

Utah 4-Day Work Week »

In a year long experiment aimed at reducing the state’s energy costs and commuters’ gasoline expenses, Utah is about to become the first state to switch to a four-day workweek for thousands of government employees.
They will put in 10-hour days, Monday through Thursday, and have Fridays off, freeing them to golf, shop, spend time [...]

The Air Car! »

Watch this clip to see what the future may hold.  Guy Negre of MDI Air Car engine that runs on compressed air. Emissions are only filtered air that’s cleaner than outside air.

Here is another rather long video if you care to see more: Air Car Video  And if you want learn more check out this [...]

Google Turns Off The Lights »

Google users in the United States will notice today that Google "turned the lights out" on the Google.com homepage (see screen shot below) as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. As to why they don’t do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the [...]

Tumbleweeds Stop A Train! »

If someone had told me that tumbleweeds could stop a coal train, I would have said "yeah, right, no way.”
That  was until I received this email with several pictures to prove it.   Evidently the train was going 15 mph and the wind was blowing about 50 mph when they ran into thousands of tumbleweeds.  The train came to [...]

Green Armada Foundation »

Green Armada has been making plenty of national news, from its feature in an April "People" magazine story touting "Heroes Among Us," to national spots on the NBC Nightly News and CBS evening news programs last month.
The non-profit, volunteer-driven organization works daily to clean the waterways and shoreline around the United States.  The people in [...]