March 2011
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Facebook’s New Logo–Which One’s a No-Go?
Back in February 2010, Greenpeace called on Facebook to unfriend coal and embrace renewables to power their massive data centers, giving them a deadline of April 22 (Earth Day) of this year.
England Abandons Nationalized Cycling Effort
Cycling England, a government-backed transportation research, design and development program, has been put to rest. Now the responsibility of engaging the public and increasing bicycle-friendly infrastructure falls on the shoulders of all those new cycling enthusiasts Cycling England helped create.
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Obama Unveils ‘Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future’ [Video and Full Text]
In a policy speech today at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, President Obama outlined a broad energy agenda that, at its core, stressed the importance of reducing consumption of foreign oil — certainly not a new theme among modern U.S. presidents.
Fukushima Daiichi: A Bitter Pill for Vermont Nuclear Foes
The fate of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and its twenty-year reprieve are not sealed quite yet.
Obama Oversees Big Coal Giveaway
This week, in the heart of wind country, the Powder River Basin, the Obama administration handed away thousands of acres of federal land to the coal industry.
