2011 February

Sustainably: Keeping the Naked Mole Rats Warm

  Talk about creative accounting for a good cause. The Pueblo (Colorado) Zoo leveraged grants f...

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Heat Your Home with a Toaster Oven?

It’s another brisk winter day in Minnesota, with a fresh 18-inch blanket of snow (or would that qual...

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Growing Fuel: Biomass Plantations

Biomass generation plants primarily burn waste wood, but as their role in clean energy is expanding,...

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Finding Morality in Energy Efficiency

A recent Harris Interactive poll conducted among Fortune 1000 companies found that nearly 90 percent...

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Wind Energy Creating New Jobs

How great is it when one good thing creates a bunch of other good things? According to national aver...

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Seeing (Nothing) is Believing

A recent article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune featured a Montevideo, Minn., business owner who up...

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What to Do with Your Old, Inefficient Light Bulbs

    Today’s post is from guest blogger Stephanie Stocking, youth Corpsmember with Mi...

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