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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 inhabitat, by Lori Zimmer, 27-04-2011 With the possibility of fossil fuels running out in our lifetime, Universal Lubricant is looking ahead. Through the re-refining of used motor oil, they’ve created Eco Ultra. With production increasing to 1.5 million gallons, the recycled oil is gaining…

Via goodcleantech, 07-04-2011 As electric cars struggle to achieve mass appeal, Toyota has announced the latest milestone for its pioneering hybrid, the Prius, which has now sold one million cars in the United States.

Via goodcleantech.com, 27-04-2011 KFC has announced that it’s joining in on the recent trend of fast food restaurants going green by opening a new eco-friendly location in Indianapolis. The new restaurant, which opened on Tuesday, uses 25 percent less electricity and water than a traditional…

Apple has just released a new Battery Charger, which comes replete with 6 AA nickel-metal hybrid (NiMH) rechargeable batteries. Not only does using rechargeable batteries save you from buying and throwing out dozens of toxin-leaking standard batteries, but Apple has added another eco-friendly feature to…

The Question in LinkedIn Green group was: "Should the (US) plastic manufacturing industry stop the use of bioplastics and oxy-degradable plastics because they are likely to pollute existing waste streams and jeopardize the recycling process?" I would like to ask the provocative question why we…

The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why…

Most modern designs consider energy as the most important factor in the sustainability of buildings; however, it is not only the energy a building consumes that impacts on its overall sustainability. Materials form a very important factor when analyzing their embodied energy, reusability, recyclability, and…

ScienceDaily, Feb. 27, 2009 The University of Alberta and the National Research Council’s National Institute (NINT) for Nanotechnology have engineered an approach that is leading to improved performance of plastic solar cells (hybrid organic solar cells). The development of inexpensive, mass-produced plastic solar panels is…