This year, Barcelona city council decided to set an example and opt for low energy Christmas lights around town. The most intriguing ones are the 6 metal Christmas trees that are either solar or bike-powered. The Barcelonans however believe they are being tricked…...

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A few months back, Worldchanging ally JP Kemmick traveled to Portland, Ore., to visit a group of college students working on a neighborhood-based renewable energy project. The non-profit organization Northwest Neighborhood Energy was starting a project called Sunnyside Neighborhood Energy, proposing to create a community-owned district energy (DE) utility in Southeast Portland.

A recent occurrence in a small New England town has us thinking that a working future for the smart garage -- a concept which promises symbiotic energy-sharing links between buildings, plug-in hybrid vehicles and the energy grid -- is not too far off.

Greenpeace and other environmental organizations have been campaigning for many years to halt Turkey's nuclear-power program. ("Hayır" means "no" in Turkish.)

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Mystery Man Silences 500MW Turbine

Photo credit: Janis Miglavs

Cool-sounding innovation in the lab, low energy-density, but cheap & non-toxic:

A scientist in Taiwan has invented the world's first chlorophyll organic battery that can supply electricity within 10 seconds of being wetted with water, beverages or even urine.

photo: WWF-UK, from the report Unconventional Oil: Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel?