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Environmentalists Stalling Congress? That’s a New One 28 Aug 2011, 11:00 pm

C. Elizabeth Smith Currently, there is legislation on the table in congress to repair, increase, and expand a pipeline that will transfer Alberta Tar Sands (also called Oil Sands) to the gulf of Mexico. Already built, is a pipeline that transfers oil sands of crude, somewhat solid, bitumen to refineries in Illinois and Oklahoma and [...]

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Getting Our Green Act Together 28 Aug 2011, 10:59 pm

Lindsey Williams Not everyone is convinced that our nation needs to turn its traditionally ways of power and productivity into green and clean, efficient machines. In fact, some would argue that we don’t need to adopt cleaner fuel, or expand the ways in which we power our nation. Oh, but I’d beg to differ. Quick [...]

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Empowering the Power of New Energy 19 Aug 2011, 6:41 pm

Lindsey Williams for Ecofusion Renewable energy sources have found success and acceptance across the board due to a few key elements: Businesses have concern over remaining fossil fuel reserves, dependency on importing particular fossil fuels, as well as the stability of the supply. There is also the clear concern of polluting the environment. Lastly, there [...]

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A Smart Meter? 19 Aug 2011, 6:33 pm

C. Elizabeth Smith for Ecofusion Today, humanity has many things that are considered ‘smarter’ than our old-time household electronics. We have SMART cars, smart phones, even now a slowly unveiling plan for something called a Smart Grid to handle our ever growing electrical load. Now a new development: households are slowing catching onto something called [...]

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Perhaps, a Word from a Green Sponsor?? 15 Aug 2011, 12:57 am

Lindsey Williams for Ecofusion Would it take money to conquer the bureaucratic red tape that eco-conscience organizations must go through in order to claim any kind of mediocre victory? Does it take a grand line of mobilization and logistics, streamlining from policy initiative and grass roots efforts to insure some form of effectiveness? OR, perhaps [...]

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Energy in Transporation: A Tricky Equation 7 Aug 2011, 6:52 pm

C. Elizabeth Smith for Ecofusion Three years ago, Steven Chu, George Bush’s Secretary of Energy, pulled all the funding for the research and development of the hydrogen fuel cell car. We have also all heard that the miracle energy sources, biodiesel and ethanol, are not the solutions to the energy sources requirements our automobiles as [...]

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Did Somebody Say… Interconnected Sustainability??? 7 Aug 2011, 6:49 pm

Lindsey Williams for Ecofusion Loss of biodiversity, climate change, as well as economic and social instability are just some of the few challenges of interconnected sustainability that have increasingly become more serious. What does interconnected sustainability even mean, really? How does this play into the efforts put invested into improving business and environmental relations? Interconnected [...]

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Walking the Green Tight Rope 1 Aug 2011, 1:52 am

Lindsey Williams for Ecofusion Would it surprise you to find that more green initiatives are proposed than those that actually take flight? What does this statistic even mean to us, and how do we- as active proponents in the green push- successfully acquire tools for change? Focus our efforts- tighten our concerted efforts into more [...]

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Biodiesel: A Good Idea, But… 1 Aug 2011, 1:50 am

Vern Turn for Ecofusion As with most ideas for change there are positive and negative points that must be weighed in order to implement part or all of that idea.  Biodiesel, fuel made from oils derived from plants, algae, fungi and bacteria, is one of those topics that requires careful analysis.  At first glance, one [...]

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Using… LESS 1 Aug 2011, 1:47 am

C. Elizabeth Smith for Ecofusion Energy is something that is as precious to us as food and water. However, the average American understands that we don’t really have much of a say in our national energy choices; for example, how we create our energy and from what energy sources. The American life of today revolves [...]

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