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Via goodcleantech.com, 12-04-2011Original via Treehugger, If you live and Quebec and have been thinking about buying an electric vehicle, now might be the time. The province has announced a rebate of up to CA$8,000 for EV and hybrid owners. The amount that new car owners…

Via CNet, 05-04-2011 One of the biggest issues with electric vehicles is range: that is, how far the car can go before it needs to be charged again. A tiny new EV prototype from Japanese manufacturer SIM-Drive appears to have made some significant progress in…

Via goodcleantech.com, 05-04-2011 Coke and Pepsi continue to outdo one another when it comes to plant-based bottles. This time Odwalla, a division of Coca-Cola, will be using 100 percent plant-based bottles for its juice products.

Via earthtimes.org, 22-05-2011 Scotland announced on May 20, 2011, that it is targeting to use only renewable energy by 2020, increasing its former target of 80 percent by that year.

Via Greenpeace New Zealand, 23-05-2011 This weekend, Labour fired the starting gun on their election campaign by offering a glimpse of their vision for rebuilding the nation’s economy. Bruised from the debate that engulfed last week’s budget cuts, the opposition party have set about putting…

Via inhabitat.com, 07-05-2011 China just announced that it has more than doubled its target goal for solar power generation over the next decade in an effort to decrease dependency on nuclear power in light of the recent crisis in Japan. The country has set a…

Via cbsnews.com, 11-05-2011 MIDLAND, MICH. – Few states lost more jobs in the Great Recession than Michigan – where nearly one out of every 10 jobs disappeared. But, as CBS News senior correspondent Anthony Mason reports, one CEO is fighting back. “We have a war…

Via stuff.co.nz, 14-05-2011 Stopping the use of coal for electricity generation is the answer to halting global warming. This is the view of an internationally acclaimed scientist, known as the ‘father of climate change’, who spoke at Massey University yesterday. Dr James Hansen is one…

Pondering about the question of how much emissions solar panels would be actually saving, I stumbled across a very interesting article in the Low-tech Magazine. I have reproduced the article here unchanged.

Via Low-tech Magazine, 03-03-2008 New research shows, albeit unintentional, that generating electricity with solar panels can also be a very bad idea. In some cases, producing electricity by solar panels releases more greenhouse gases than producing electricity by gas or even coal. Producing electricity from…