With military forces increasingly having to consider their environmental impact, QinetiQ has been awarded a £1.5 million, three year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to develop and deliver PyTEC™ – an ISO containerised Pyrolysis Waste Disposal System – to the US Army.

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Save money on your iPhone with these Green iPhone Apps. A single mannequin stun protesting for Climate Justice shuts down a Bank of America branch. Trade in your current mode of transportation with the newest Alternative Autos.

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Japanese car manufacturer, Takeoka Jidosha Kogei Ltd. has developed a prototype of an eletric minicar. They have exhibited their creation at the 1st International Automotive Electronics Technology Expo in Tokyo.
It is a one seater minicar, which has a maximum speed of 55km/h and a cruising distance of 50km uses a combination of Japanese and [...]

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President Barack Obama issued a pair of memoranda on January 26 to address the fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions of our nation’s automobiles. The president directed the secretary of transportation to publish higher fuel economy standards for the model year 2011 cars and light trucks by the end of March and to reevaluate the [...]

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This week ZapRoot is covering…..
1. Fake Plastic Trees Filter Out CO2
2. Sarah Palin The Oil Baroness
3. Find Out How To Say Goodbye Junk Mail

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An operator displays a handful of corn at an ethanol plant. Photograph: Mark Blinch/Reuters

The moment of truth is at hand for US biofuels this week as environmental regulators prepare to rule on one state’s request to halve the steep national target for blending ethanol into fuel.
Texas governor Rick Perry asked the US environmental protection agency [...]

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A cougar on the banks of the Flathead river in the Canadian Rockies. Photograph: Getty Images/Panoramic RR

It has been called one of North America’s wildest places. Just north of the US-Canada border, the wooded slopes of the Canadian Rockies channel unpolluted water into a valley that remains free of human development. Grizzly bears, cougars and [...]

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A new advertising campaign has got American progressives spluttering into their soy lattes. Plastered across the pages of the liberal American canon – newspapers and magazines like the New York Times, the New Republic, the American Prospect, the Nation and Harper’s – are a series of full-page ads calling for progressives to join forces with [...]

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Thanks to blow-hard winds, the United States has just become the world’s largest generator of wind energy.
Germany previously held this distinction, though since the United States has about 26 times more land than Germany, the milestone isn’t a huge surprise. Nonetheless, we weren’t expected to reach this point until late 2009.

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Al Gore, the Nobel Prize-winning crusader on climate change, challenged the United States on Thursday to commit to producing all U.S. electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind power in 10 years.
“Our dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels is at the core of all three of these challenges — the economic, environmental and national security [...]

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