Month: April 2012
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Prius Sales Have Best March Ever
Camry and Prius on Toyota’s best selling models in the US, and both hit record sales in March.
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Energy Use Tumbles When It Becomes A Game
Dutch researchers turned energy savings into “Energy Battle,” a sort of video game, and found college students cutting use by 25 to 45 percent.
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Are These The Smaller, Greener Hospitals Of Tomorrow?
Winners of Kaiser Permanente’s international Small Hospital, Big Idea competition have envisioned what a small, near-net-zero-energy hospital of tomorrow might look like.
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I Don’t Need to Rule, But Our Leaders Do
Maggie Comstock Associate, Policy U.S. Green Building Council Editor’s note: We are proud to announce that our staff blogger, Maggie Comstock, is a finalist in the Rio+20 Big Blog Off! Vote for Maggie so she can win a trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, t…
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Solar Trust Bankrupt—Huge Blythe Project Dead?
Solar Trust, which had and then gave up a $2.1 billion federal loan guarantee to build the world’s largest solar power plant, declares bankruptcy.