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Going Geothermal
Just below our feet is one of the world’s most renewable energy sources. All we have to do is tap into it.

Talking Tough on Climate Change
Imagine a theatre full of university students compelled to their feet in a standing ovation following a speech from a septuagenarian. Then picture lineups of eager participants at two microphones-all of them hoping for a chance to speak a few words with this powerful orator and mentor.

Resolve to Be Green
Like most Canadians, you've probably started a list-maybe just a mental list-of changes you'd like to make in 2009. Instead of, or in addition to, resolving to lose weight or stop smoking, why not resolve to be green?

The Ethanol Debate
Roger Samson's voice is tense with frustration as he discusses the sudden enthusiasm for ethanol made from switchgrass, an energy solution he championed in 1991, but has long since abandoned as too expensive, wasteful, and difficult to produce.

Powerpolitics
Perennial association of the word "nuclear with the noun "bomb may be but one reason why the topic of nuclear power generation is so explosive.

Let the Sun Shine In
Freiburg, Germany, has a lot to show us. Not only are its schools, central train station, hospital, and national soccer stadium equipped with solar panels but many private homes also use solar energy.

Fuel for Thought
Global warming is my fault. Before you come after me with sharp, green fangs and cracked environmental knuckles, you might want to say the same thing to yourself.

Blow Me Down
Pollution-free, abundant, and renewable-that's wind energy in a nutshell. Use of wind energy has increased over 30 percent annually in the past five years. The Journal of Electronics and General Engineering states that wind power will become one of the major energy resources of the future.

Winds of Change?
We are inundated daily with information regarding the hazards of climate change caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many Canadians are looking for ways to reverse this perilous trend. Wind power-one promising energy-producing alternative to fossil fuels-has been with us for centuries.

Get a Clean Green Home
Keeping up with a clean home can knock you out in more ways than on.

First Aid for the Planet
The rising price of natural gas probably has your attention, but for the health of your planetary home, there are more reasons to be alert to the politics of energy than gas bills..

The Age of Clean Energy
Space Energy Eradicates Fossil Fuel Pollution "Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe...Throughout space there is energy..