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Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Green Daily According to a report from the Nikkei in Japan (via Hybrid Cars), Nippon Mining & Metals Co. and GS Yuasa Corp. are each planning to begin collecting used lithium ion batteries from hybrid and electric cars to be recycled. Apparently, it’s not exactly a straightforward process to [...]

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, USA Tarmac 2.0 has just taken its first baby-step. The solar road technology that promises to produce clean electricity, replace power transmission and information infrastructure, requires no plowing and lights up to provide navigational and safety information is about to go from the drawing board to prototype production. The Department of [...]

Filed under: Etc., EV/Plug-in, Green Culture, Green Daily They Might Be Giants “Electric Car” – Click above to watch the video after the break They Might Be Giants are proving that Neil Young isn’t the only musician who can sing about cleaner transportation. The quirky band is releasing a CD/DVD album Tuesday called Here Comes [...]

Filed under: Hydrogen, Mercedes Benz, Frankfurt Motor Show Mercedes-Benz F-Cell – Click above for high-res image gallery Back in April, Mercedes-Benz announced via a short little blurb on a larger press release that it planned to begin small-scale series production of a new hydrogen fuel cell-powered automobile called the F-Cell. According to the German automaker, [...]

Environment crusader and  Green activist Subhas Dutta is all set to launch India’s first Green political Party on the lines of  parties  in Germany, Australia, the US and the UK to protect the country’s environment. Dutta will visit London on Sept 12 to meet Caroline Lucas, leader of the UK Green Party and Member of [...]

Chandrayaan-1 moon mission is over, project Director M Annadurai said today “The contact was lost at 01.30 IST as the deep space network (DSN) at Byalalu, about 40 km from Bangalore, received the data from the lunarcraft during the previous orbit up to 00.25 IST,” according to an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) statement. Radio [...]

Created by Microsoft, the WorldWide Telescope sports a high performance Visual Experience Engine and allows seamless panning and zooming around the night sky, planets, and image environments. The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your PC to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. A web-based [...]

Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt movement and winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, criticised many forestry projects this week. She was giving the keynote address at the second World Agroforestry Conference in Nairobi and her concern was that imported tree species often became invasive and when they did so, two things happened. [...]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to force the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a “trial” on climate change. Characterizing it as the “Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century,” the trial would come complete with witnesses, cross-examination, and a judge to “rule” on whether human activity is contributing to dangerous climate change. Opponents to [...]

Americans of a certain age grew up with a very common stock political caricature as part of our culture: he (invariably a man) was a Southern Gentleman with a quick wit and syrupy drawl, never without his vested suit and pocket watch, and—at least in popular satire—always with one hand cradling a well-chomped cigar and [...]