Some cities try going 'green' with blackouts
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On Saturday evening, it's "Lights out San Francisco," where people will voluntary turn off lights for an hour. The aim is to raise awareness of light pollution and the energy wasted by lights left on.            Presented By     From Dell? Home!      &nbsp;&nbsp;The new Dell? Inspiron? 1520 notebook with hi-def widescreen and long-range wireless for only $799. Add mobile broadband for $150. Limited time offer. Click here. www.dell.com    Ads by Pheedo
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The Christian Science Monitor - Power outages are a common occurrence in Kabwata, a poor neighborhood in the capital of this Southern African nation, where residents spend many of their evenings by candlelight, cooking with charcoal.
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If you ran a city, what energy source  would you use -- cheap coal, or costly but environmentally  friendly solar power?
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Since ancient times poets have revered the power of the seas. Now energy companies and coastal cities like New York and San Francisco  are aiming to tap ocean waves and tidal currents as abundant sources of electricity.
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By Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Jun. 7--Topeka may have had the edge this week in an online promotion geared at finding the country's "greenest" city, but here's how the cities stack up in other environmental areas.
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There was green everywhere you looked. The lower bowl of TD Banknorth Garden was bathed in green last night -- draft party green with green and white balloons.
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The Golden Gate Bridge, City Hall, Alcatraz and other parts of the city will go almost completely dark for an hour next month as part of a campaign to conserve energy and fight global warming.
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Iraq has been plagued by electrical shortages since the U.S. invasion, but the blackouts have gotten worse this summer. Besides decaying infrastructure and insurgent attacks, a bumbling bureaucracy and local power rebellions are to blame.
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From the street, Alicia Campbell's house looks no different from the others in her suburban cul-de-sac. But it has a secret: It's green &#151; very green.
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Yes, the holidays bring millions of chopped-down trees and megawatts of flashing lights. But they don't have to be an environmentalist's worst nightmare.
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Looking for ways to satisfy a growing need for power and reduce pollution, China is turning to wind power, along with other green alternatives. By Stephen Leahy.
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Data center operators are looking for alternative ways of powering their facilities and green technologies that are cleaner are gaining new attention, according to attendees at this week's Afcom data center conference.
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NEW YORK -- In a city where terror attacks and a massive blackout have come, gone, and failed to stop business as usual, a few thousand Republicans are unlikely to slow things down.
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Companies are looking for ways to cut down on greenhouse gases and save money on increasingly expensive gasoline.
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SMA has an inverter that keeps the solar system going even during a blackout.
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North Americans who spend their lives reducing, reusing and recycling can keep doing their bit for the environment after they die, if Europe&#39;s &quot;green funeral&quot; trend makes its way across the Atlantic.
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Power lines are the same as everything else when there's no light &#151; invisible. That's one reason there's a curfew here in this Gulf Coast city a day after Hurricane Ivan roared through. Driving is treacherous.