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Dec 3, 2008 | 7 comments

The latest electric car company to find a home in the Bay Area is based in Canada.

Dec 3, 2008

Organizers of the Mavericks surf competition have decided to delay the contest one month because of the Christmas holidays and a struggling economy.

Dec 3, 2008

Better Place and Hawaii have joined forces. This week the State of Hawaii and the Hawaiian Electric Company endorsed a plan to build a new renewable transportation system based on electric vehicles with...

Dec 3, 2008

So, finally we complete the trifecta. Chrysler says they need $7 billion in loans to stay afloat through 2009 and have pointed to the example of their ENVI design unit in leading the turnaround with...

Dec 3, 2008

As the second of the Big Three to come wagging their tails between their legs to the US Congress, General Motors is asking for a total of $18 billion dollars to avoid imminent bankruptcy. The only problem:...

Dec 3, 2008

Gearing up for an offical public debut at the 2009 North American International Auto Show next month, Fisker Automotive has released photos of what they’re calling the final production version...

Dec 3, 2008

Ford Motor Company has unveiled radical new plans to start producing electric vehicles from 2010 onwards. The company will deliver an all-electric van for commercial fleet use in 2010, an all-electric...

Dec 3, 2008

SARASOTA, Florida, December 3, 2008 (ENS) - A new analysis of economic activity generated by Florida's coral reefs finds that some 70,000 jobs and more than $5.5 billion in business in the state could...

Dec 3, 2008

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, December 3, 2008 (ENS) - One in every three of the more than 1,500 children's toys tested in time for the holiday shopping season have been found to contain "medium" or "high" levels...

Dec 2, 2008 | 1 comment

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, December 2, 2008 (ENS) - Rare and vulnerable to extinction, bright blue migratory songbirds can be seen flying through the trees on an 80 acre piece of land in the watershed of the...

Dec 2, 2008

Several Bay Area small businesses and non-profit organizations were issued checks up to several thousand dollars for simply turning the lights off.

Dec 3, 2008 | 3 comments

Schwarzenegger flew across country to get funding for California from President-elect Barack Obama at the National Governors Association meeting in Philadelphia.

Dec 2, 2008

The folks who want to bring BART to the South Bay are smiling today. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Peter Busch today denied a  temporary restraining order requested by opponents of a measure...

Dec 2, 2008 | 2 comments

With funds from the government's $700 billion bailout package out of the question, San Jose is getting creative in an effort to boost the city's economy.

Dec 2, 2008

The fire department in Shawnee, PA decided in July to experiment with solar panels atop one of their trucks, hoping the few panels would produce enough juice to power the many tools that otherwise are...

Dec 2, 2008

HOUSTON, Texas, December 1, 2008 (ENS) - The largest producer of polyvinyl chloride in the United States, and its subsidiary, have agreed to spend $7.285 million to comply with federal laws at their...

Dec 2, 2008

FONTANA, California, December 1, 2008 (ENS) - The roof of a distribution warehouse in Fontana is now covered with 33,700 advanced thin-film solar panels, making it the largest single rooftop solar photovoltaic...

Dec 1, 2008

SAINT PETERSBURG, Florida, December 1, 2008 (ENS) - NOAA's Fisheries Service is increasing its protection of threatened elkhorn and staghorn corals in Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands...

Dec 1, 2008

NEW YORK, New York, December 1, 2008 (ENS) - The millions of lights on theater marquees and billboard advertisements that illuminate The Great White Way are being replaced by energy-saving bulbs under...

Dec 2, 2008

The next time you're at the coast, be sure to be on the lookout for whales.

Dec 1, 2008 | 6 comments

The jokes are piling up after San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom put seven-and-a-half hours of his State of the City Address on YouTube.

Dec 1, 2008

The Irish government has announced radical plans to introduce more than 250,000 electric cars onto the nation’s roads by 2020, a staggering ten percent of the total vehicles in the country. If...

Dec 1, 2008

UPPSALA, Sweden, December 1, 2008 (ENS) - Faith leaders concluded their two-day Interfaith Summit on Climate Change in Uppsala on Satuday by signing a manifesto demanding quick and extensive reduction...

Dec 1, 2008

BOSTON, Massachusetts, December 1, 2008 (ENS) - The U.S. EPA and the state of Massachusetts are about to impose stormwater permit controls on industrial, commercial and high-density residential facilities...