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According to a new Columbia study, Americans are pretty clueless about energy efficiency. How is your energy IQ? What saves more energy, a truck or a train? A laptop or a stereo? Recycling glass or recycling aluminum soda cans? Think you know the answers? Click here to take this energy test and find out how much you really know (or don’t know) about energy use!
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A campaign to make the White House greener is intensifying as a group of environmentalists plan this month to give President Obama a solar panel that used to sit atop 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben says he’s joining a team from Unity College for a “Put Solar On It” road trip to Washington. The group, set to depart Unity, Maine, Sept. 7, will deliver a solar panel that President Jimmy Carter had installed on the White House in 1979 but was removed in 1986 and placed in storage. “We’re taking them back to the White House…” Click here to read more about this solar campaign for the White House!
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It will take a perfect storm of converging forces to push solar power into the limelight as a practical source of reliable power. So far, concerns about climate change, diminishing oil reserves and environmental impacts have all contributed to the growing demand for alternative sources of energy. And for consumers, solar is starting to look pretty enticing thanks to government incentives. Find out what you can get for choosing to solar to power your home. Click here to read about these incentives that can you get into a solar home!
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Pedal power is gaining traction as thousands of bikes and elliptical machines are retrofitted to produce electricity. Gyms are using sweat equity to help power their facilities. A Brooklyn eatery uses it to make smoothies. Female inmates at a Phoenix jail pedal to power their TV to watch soap operas. Actor Ed Begley Jr. bikesrides a bike to run his toaster. “Business is really taking off,” says Jay Whelan, CEO of The Green Revolution, a Connecticut-based company that retrofits bikes for spinning classes. Since April 2009, he has added devices to nearly 1,000 bikes at 60 gyms that convert the direct current created by pedaling into alternating current to be sent to the power grid. Click here to read more about this pedal power revolution!
Source: Drexel University
At Drexel University in Philadelphia, students and faculty advisors are trying to develop sustainable innovations that improve quality of life, push the envelope in terms of what’s already out there and offer innovations that are commercially viable and also acceptable to the public. They’re doing it through a living laboratory called the Drexel Smart House. Founded four years ago, the house is a student- led initiative designed to explore cutting edge technologies that are environmentally friendly. Click here to read more about this exciting student-led project!
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