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The Big Green Hype – Natural Gas Vehicles

By Jim Beacon  -  February 22, 2009     3 Comments »

How ‘green’ are natural gas-burning cars, truck and buses? If you want to stay focused on the single biggest threat to the world today — the runaway emission of the greenhouse gas Carbon Dioxide (CO2) — (... Click to read more ...)


Whatever Happened to Low-Cost Solar Power?

By Jim Beacon  -  February 1, 2009     5 Comments »

The Dream betrayed? In 2002, when he was 80 years old, the widely-acknowledged genius and inventor Stan Ovshinsky spent over $50 million dollars to build a huge factory in Aubrun Hills, Michigan. It had one purpose: (... Click to read more ...)


The Greed of Green

By Jim Beacon  -  November 11, 2008     0 Comments »

NOTE: Originally published in the print edition of The Greener Home Magazine back in 2006, but the question asked in this article has still not been answered. The Greed of Green — will we blow it… again? Due to (... Click to read more ...)