Report: Toyota secretly developing green car to be powered solely by – WNEP-TV 16
TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. is secretly developing a vehicle that will be powered solely by solar energy in an effort to turn around its struggling business with a futuristic ecological car, a top business daily reported Thursday. The Nikkei

ENERGY INDEPENDENCE – Buffalo News
WASHINGTON — Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who is President Obama’s energy secretary, recently gave a speech in which two key words never passed his lips. He talked about energy efficiency, electricity transmission lines and

Carbondale riding a ‘green building’ wave – Aspen Times
The American National Bank building in Carbondale was one of the first new commercial buildings to include a solar photovoltaic system on the roof when it was completed last year. John Stroud/Post Independent CARBONDALE — An Energy Efficient

Go green by cutting energy use – Baltimore Sun
A fter waffling between “100 percent wind” electricity and a cheaper deal for dirty kilowatts from Washington Gas Energy Services, the Hancock household signed up for the WGES package – 10.8 cents per kilowatt hour for three years. In doing so we’ll

Tax credits may be an incentive to make homes energy efficient – Miami Herald
NEW YORK — Before you put your 2008 tax documents up in the attic, think about the $1,500 you could save on next year’s returns if you added extra insulation or a skylight. Congress tripled the tax credit for energy-efficiency home improvements when

Tacoma deserves fair treatment in green energy bill – Tacoma News Tribune
As Washington’s legislative session winds to an end, it’s looking more and more likely that the state’s green power mandates won’t escape unscathed. That’s not altogether a bad thing. Initiative 937, passed by voters in 2006, has always

FREEING THE QUEQUECHAN: Why one board donated $100K to fund green – Herald News
The president of the private, nonprofit Greater Fall River Development Corp. said the board decided two weeks ago to fund $100,000 toward the city’s grand renewable energy initiative as an investment consistent with its mission of job creation