MIT researchers are working with Portuguese colleagues to design a pilot-scale device that will capture significantly more of the energy in ocean waves than existing systems, and use it to power an electricity-generating turbine.

A recent study by Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford finds that Wind, Water and Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear and Coal.

A timely post from during the campaign, revisted now. Auto workers, manufacturing workers, college students, all need work. Work creates value, creates income, creates a better economy.

To continue my migration to all things green, my big, heavy, smokey snowblower has find it’s new home under my deck. Yes, I might have to get some exercise this winter.

Here in New England we expect anywhere from 75 to 120 inches of snow each year, and it needs to be removed from driveways and sidewalks. In true American style, we have built some monster snowblowers, to do the heavy lifting for us. Gas powered, noisy, newspaper eating, propellors throwing the snow 30 feet in the air. Fun, yes. Green, no.