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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#.

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Greenius Goes All AB 811 Over Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

SBESC's Marilyn Lyon talks about Federal Stimulus Funding / photo (c) Debra Bushweit Galliani. We also learned from Marilyn Lyon that Federal Stimulus money will be coming L.A. Senator Oropeza’s office building could save $21,940 a year in electricity costs if they put in a solar system.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

The first step to stopping the building of any future coal-fired power plants in the USA is to mandate that every single housing unit in this country cut it’s energy use by at least 40% over the next 12 years and then by 80% by 2050. Not when we can take such simple, easy steps to fight back instead. How powerful will that make you?

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The electric car and grid parity - OregonLive.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It has awarded tax credits worth about $100 million to each of four manufacturers of electric-hybrid car batteries. This is the same government who gave us Light Rail, Tram, and are proposing building a new stadium. See more in Economy Send To A Friend | Print this | Permalink Reddit Digg del.icio.us Inappropriate?

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Department of Energys Transportation Electrification stimulus program for a federal grant that would enable a nationwide demonstration fleet with the United States Postal Service (USPS) * Potential partnership with USPS to include infrastructure support from ConEd, Duke Energy, DTE Energy and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Washington, D.C.,

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