Getting Green Off The Grid

So the city is forcing him to dispose of his trash in the landfill. How nice of them.
City sues man for canceling trash service - Examiner.com

The lawsuit, filed by San Carlos Deputy City Attorney Linda Noeske in San Mateo Superior Court on Jan. 22, seeks a permanent injunction forcing House to maintain garbage service. […]

According to their tests, they’re almost as strong as dome homes, but easier to build.
Home Front Homes :: Building Plans :: Single Family

The market goes where the money is. It will right itself eventually.
Biofuels may threaten environment, U.N. warns - CNN.com

Foremost among the concerns is increased competition for agricultural land, which Suzuki warned has already caused a rise in corn prices in the United States and Mexico and could lead to food shortages in developing […]

That’s slick. I want one! I hope they make it commercially.
YouTube - Innovate or Die - Aquaduct: Mobile Filtration Vehicle

An RV with no pollution!
Wheelgirl: Home is Where the Handlebars Are

Joseph Dorocke, from Chicago, Illinois, made a 50 lbs, 4-foot long and 2-foot wide collapsible bicycle sleeping trailer. The bigger box housed a smaller box inside of it. When stopped for the night, he could lengthen his bed to 8-feet of open or enclosed sleeping […]

That is a tiny home, it could easily be powered by solar or wind or other renewable energies.
Tumbleweed Houses | Home

The ultimate off the grid data center - completely mobile.
Data Centers on Cargo Ships? - Data Center Knowledge

IDS apparently plans to develop the below-deck areas as data center space, and use deck space to house container-based data centers like Project Blackbox from Sun Microsystems or Rackable’s ICE Cube. A sales brochure (PDF) for IDS pictures […]

Well, sort of. It’s off the electrical grid, but by using natural gas pumped in, they’re still not totally independent.
Perhaps they should use windmills to capture the hot air that politicians are emitting this election season.
Beet.TV: The New York Times is “Off the Grid” in Energy Savings Move — HP Commits To Big Cuts […]

Lots of buzz about this car over the past week. It might not be sold in the US, and one has to wonder if that is because of the threat to oil. More likely, it has to do with safety regulations and the fact that it’s tiny and inefficient.
The MDI Air Car - […]

While I’m all for measures to help save energy, I’m not happy with this measure. It’s only in California so far, but I can see it spreading to other states as well.
American Thinker- Print Article

In other words, the temperature of your home will no longer be yours to control. Your desires and needs […]