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What is the Energy Credit Card? - It's a regular credit card that is credited by your    local utility with real green rewards - It's just as easy and convenient to use. - It can replace the card(s) you have now. - Good anywhere credit cards are accepted. - It can help reduce your credit card debt

If a smart company like Google can seriously think it can go green by burning coal and then buying offsets and if a smart company like PG&E is bragging about a new program that allows customers to offset their electricity emissions by planting trees (a dopey program I'll blog about later), then something is very wrong about the general understanding of offsets.

New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine signed legislation that calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020—approximately a 20% reduction—followed by a further reduction of emissions to 80% below 2006 levels by 2050.

And that's not all. We reported recently on this site on the solar powered car making its way around the world. We also covered the concept of solar roads to capture usable energy. We even reported on a sail boat powered with a solar sail. Now the BBC reports   that the U.S. military has held a test run in Arizona of a UK-made solar plane, the Zephyr-6. The plane flew for more than three days, running at night on solar charged batteries. The more than 83 hour non-stop flight was the longest of any unmanned aircraft.

This “reverse auction market” feed-in tariff is designed to avoid the pitfalls the have plagued efforts in Europe to encourage development of renewable energy by paying artificially high rates for electricity produced by solar power plants or rooftop photovoltaic projects.

That is one reason for the rise of renewable energy middlemen like Clean Currents in Washington, D.C. The company bundles small businesses that want to buy wind power credits and submits a collective application to a utility. The businesses get better rates, and Clean Currents pockets a 1 percent commission.

Just as EU ministers are due to rubber stamp the extension of tariffs on Chinese exports of energy-efficient bulbs at their meeting in Luxembourg on Monday (15 October), a major Italian lighting firm is planning to challenge the decision at the European courts.

The Weza is a fully sustainable  green source of power. It can however, be plugged in to recharge its 12V, 7Ah lead acid battery. This product is capable of starting vehicle engines ,(jumper cables included), and powering many other devices. It is portable, easy to carry, great for boats, motor homes  and campers.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Soaring energy costs and increased concern about the environment are spurring builders to step up building homes that use less energy and water. More than 30 affordable homes being built this week during a Habitat for Humanity project in Los Angeles include materials designed to reduce energy costs and save the new homeowners money.

Candidates looking for an integrated economic stimulus package: look no further! Clean energy and green technologies are the wave of the future.

UK consumers are unwilling to fork out any extra costs to help save the planet, a survey shows