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The Greenius Goes Into Overdrive

Creative Greenius

I like Dency’s idea of installing these turbines atop tall poles on our South Bay piers where the winds are more forceful and regularly blowing. I started digging and researching and I found the money that any of our cities in the South Bay – or throughout the great state of California – can use to fund and operate their AB 811 loan programs.

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Environmentalists fight for green domain

Green Cars News

Former US vice president Al Gore backed a by Californian group Dot Eco to operate the domain. “We’re two different applicants with two different business ideas,&# Minor Childers, co-founder of Dot Eco, told BBC News. According to the BBC , rival consortiums are preparing bids to control the.eco domain. web address.

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Gordon wants more electric cars :: KTAR.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Mark Perry with Nissan said the idea of people tooling down the interstate in an electric vehicle is no longer a pipe dream. Electric cars were in the works long before former Vice President Al Gores push for environmental change and before the recent brush with $4-a-gallon gasoline, said Perry.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Answer: Al Gore is an investor in Fisker through venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. And Reuben Munger, former managing partner at investment firm Baupost Group LLC, is a founder and chairman of Bright, which developed a fully electric delivery van called Idea. Fisker Automotive. Tesla Motor. Google Inc.

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

But it’s an idea I’m a bit obsessed with—cuz let’s face it, it’s wonderful and it’s the future as well as the now—and I recently rounded up other early adopters who have been cruising nearly carbon-free for a long, long time. No asthma, no cancer, no NOx, no SOx. Well, almost none.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

Greenius will work for the rest of America, even the little brain people who aren’t sure if climate change is man-made or not and probably even the Stepford brainwashed pod people who think Al Gore is a bad man. In fact that’s such a good idea the Public Utilities Commission of California already has that mandate in place.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A free car on a four-year plan in France is another idea mentioned by Shai Agassi, CEO of Project Better Place. Just as wireless service providers offer smartphones at discounted prices, Project Better Place will offer discounted electric vehicles with usage pricing plans. Pre-paid 600 kilometer cards are one approach that is suggested.

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