Wind Power Comprised 25% of U.S. Electric Generating Capacity Additions in 2010!
Third Biggest New Source: Good News, Bad News
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the numbers for wind power in 2010, and there are two ways to look at it. The glass-is-half-empty version is that the amount of new wind power capacity as a percentage of the total new generation capacity went down to 25%, from 42% in 2009 and 43% in 2008. That's quite bad, especially since coal is way up. But there's a glass-half-full way to look at it......Read the full story on TreeHugger
Having lived in New York City for five years, I've come to relish the car-less life. Honestly, I was never a huge fan of the things; I wasn't a natural driver, and I didn't care to be. I drove slowly and boringly (and sometimes poorly), often to the chagrin of my passengers. So I'm perfectly at home hopping on the subway and wandering around on foot.
But there are scant few places in the nation where you can get by without a car. Which is why Mother Jones' environmental reporter, Kate Sheppard, has decided she's going to buy one. And in a piece that I think deftly sums up the concerns of many conscious auto con...
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Guest poster Robert Ouellette (seen above with bikes) has written for the National Post, Corporate Knights and his own Reading Toronto. He is cycling across Sweden and reports:
Toronto, a city rated as one of the most livable in the world by The Economist, just elected 
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