Politics in the Zeros

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Braving toxic fumes and oily, black water, 11 Greenpeace activists entered Syncrude’s Aurora tar sands operation, targeting the same two-kilometre wide tailings pond just north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, that made international headlines in March after 500 ducks landed on the pond and drowned in the sludge.

Rockport Missouri: First 100% wind-powered US city.

Data centers that follow the sun and chase the wind.

Wind-powered ships, the old-fashioned kind, are again shipping cargo across the Atlantic.

First commercial scale biowaste-to-ethanol plant ok’ed for Los Angeles.

Lexmark turning recycled print cartridges into building material.

Waste heat into electricity.

Party power: Generate electricity from dancing on a piezo floor.

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