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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | Author:

Sure we’ve seen 100 such claims before, we’ve been promised cheap, clean energy 100 times before but there is something about this company that makes me say hmmm.

For instance, they’ve raised around $400 million in venture capital from the same firm that helped fund google.  Google only got $25 million for it’s startup.

They’ve been ultra-secretive for the past 10 years, doing absolutely everything in their power to prevent any word from leaking about what they were doing or how they were doing it.  If someone’s here to sell snake-oil, they are announcing it to the world as being the real McCoy the instant they can, not waiting 3 days before the company officially launches.

They have some massive clients on board already, from Ebay to Google spending millions of dollars on this technology, who have been using the Bloom Boxes for up to a year and a half.


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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | Author:

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/02/24/gm-hummer.html

Ah this made me smile today when I saw this disgusting symbol of waste and destruction would soon be no more.  The funniest part was the # of hummers sold in 2006 vs 2009.

This should help to define some of the strength of not only the environmental movement but the positive effects of high gasoline prices.

In 2006 71,524 Hummers were sold

In 2009 a whooping 325 Hummers were sold – 325!!!

That’s an absolutely monumental drop in demand for something that so recently was a must have status symbol.

Saturday, February 20th, 2010 | Author:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/save-winter-stop-oil-sands.php

A great opinion piece on Tree Hugger today making a plea for winter.  As a fellow Canadian in love with Winter I couldn’t agree more with this.  The axe needs to be brought down on the Oil sands which represent one of the greatest dangers that this planet is facing right now.  A danger which the greedy Canadian government is blatantly ignoring in exchange for more and more cash.  A government which I have long become embarrassed to be associated with by citizenship, a government which has caused my citizenship to become an embarassment for me because of their environmental policies.

Every day it seems as if we see another energy company trying to convince us of new ways to keep us tied to oil and coal. Yet these fuels always turn out to be dirtier and more expensive, especially when their environmental costs are considered.

Liquid coal is one of these same old fossil fuels the industry touts as the next best thing for American energy, but the latest culprit in this pattern of dirty fuels purported to be the U.S. energy savior is “oil sands,” a thick, black dirt derived from the soil under the great forests of Canada.

Use of these polluting oil sands is particularly ironic right now, as we approach what may be a near snowless Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Many have found it strange to read the reports of snow being shipped into Vancouver from hundreds of miles away; sadly, due to the effects of global warming, future winter Olympic Games may never be the same. We’re unveiling a new website today that helps bring this message home: www.LoveWinter.org