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LOOK: The Motorless City
Green Lifestyle  (tags: conservation, energy efficiency, home, Michigan, hydroelectric power, wind turbines, horses, low waste, composting, island, greenliving )

Meg
- 186 days ago - good.is
Just a few hours from Detroit lies Mackinac Island, a Michigan town that prohibits automobiles--which is kind of shocking, given its proximity to the world's longtime car capital. But the 500 residents and thousands of summer season visitors don't travel i
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Workers Retrain for Wind-Energy Jobs
Green Lifestyle  (tags: energy, wind turbines, repair, job training, growing field )

Little
- 264 days ago - boston.com
At Wind Technology Boot Camp, 8 weeks of study may lead to a job repairing wind turbines sprouting up across the nation. The work requires smarts and stamina. It is potentially dangerous. Candidates need good knees, a cool head and a stomach for heights.
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Homeowners Can Harness the Wind / Growing Movement to Erect Wind Turbines on or Near Urban Rooftops
Green Lifestyle  (tags: home energy, wind power, renewable energy, wind turbines, San Francisco, Urban Wind Power Task Force, Sustainabililty )

Larry
- 340 days ago - sfgate.com
In San Francisco, veteran homebuilder Robin Wilson had one installed on a pole as part of a "green" makeover of her Mission District home last year. Wilson's two-unit building, dubbed La Casa Verde, was featured in Sunset magazine as an "idea" home.
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EU Seeks to Expand Energy Grids - Europe
Green Lifestyle  (tags: europe, een power, wind turbines, wind power, eco-friendly, energy )

Chrissy
- 377 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The European Commission has unveiled plans to diversify the EU's energy imports and reduce dependence on Russia, the main gas supplier. The EU will remain dependent on imported fossil fuels for many years to come, the Strategic Energy Review says.
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Bringing Wind & Solar Power to the Masses: Recharge Pod at Glastonbury ( Windpower, Solarpower, Solar, Glastonbury, Gotwind, Win
Green Lifestyle  (tags: orange, glastonbury, wind power, diy, wind turbines, solar, renewable energy, innovation, business, CO2emissions, conservation, CoolStuff, coolstuff, design, eco-friendly, energy, environment, goodnews, green, greenliving, interesting, Sustainabililty, soc )

Paul
- 518 days ago - triplepundit.com
The Recharge Pod at Glastonbury will power 100 cell phones an hour, using both wind and solar, generating the equivalent energy of running a dj booth for 88 hours!
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Meet Farmer 'Green' and His Energy Machines
Green Lifestyle  (tags: wind turbines, farming )

Brian
- 554 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
The 79-year-old Dull has since become an Ohio pioneer in green farming and renewable energy, jumping into it in hopes of increasing energy efficiency, cutting costs and protecting the environment.
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Michigan Schools Embrace Wind Power, Biodiesel
Green Lifestyle  (tags: wind turbines, soybeans, sunflowers, biodiesel )

LL
- 597 days ago - npr.org
LISTEN A rural school district in Michigan has gone green. One school powers itself with wind turbines, and students soon will press oil from soybeans and sunflowers for biodiesel. The Laker district's efforts are saving money -- and preparing kids for gre
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For Some, Survival Requires Alternative Energy
Green Lifestyle  (tags: greenliving, solar powered, energy, wind turbines )

Brian
- 641 days ago - usatoday.com
6 miles off paved roads & 60 miles from downtown Phoenix.3 arrays of solar panels on the roof, 2 small wind turbines that cut the air overhead,& ground reveal the extreme effort required to live off the power grid, in the desert.
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Islanders Turned on By Green Electricity - UK/Scotland
Green Lifestyle  (tags: uk, scotland, electricity, green, wind turbines, solar )

Chrissy
- 664 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
Kettles will be boiling and toasters popping in a small Scottish island today when its 87 residents receive mains electricity for the first time. At midday the Isle of Eigg will take a long-awaited step into the modern world when its oldest resident, a 90
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Hull's Wind Farm Plan Draws Few Foes
Green Lifestyle  (tags: wind power, wind turbines, Massachusetts, Hull, Nantasket Beach, North Shore )


- 677 days ago - boston.com
Sometime next year, Hull could become the first community in Massachusetts to get all its electricity from wind power.
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Winds Of Change: The Future Of Wind Power In Maine
Green Lifestyle  (tags: wind power, wind turbines, clean energy, renewable resource )

Laurel
- 737 days ago - wcsh6.com
MARS HILL (NEWS CENTER) -- Turning slowly in a six mile-per-hour breeze, the 28 turbines of the Mars Hill Wind Farm are a dramatic sight. They line the ridge line of Aroostook County's tallest mountain, and can be seen for miles.
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Sustainability News: Backyard Wind Turbines Get Affordable
Green Lifestyle  (tags: Good News, wind, wind turbines, energy )

Ramona
- 1017 days ago - organicconsumers.org
Homeowners will soon be able to generate clean power in their yards while reducing electricity bills, thanks to a small, quiet, and affordable wind turbine developed by Arizona based Southwest Windpower.
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