Right now only a handful of pollution sources, including coal-fired power plants, are responsible for more than half of all of the global warming pollution in the United States. Cleaning these up is a large step towards stopping global warming, so EPA is proposing a new ru…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Designers seem to be setting a new trend for solar chargers, turning small scale renewable gadget charging into something resembling a bouquet of flowers. Hot on the heals of the Sunny Flower solar charger concept we showed off in September comes the iPetal, a design strikingly similar, and perhaps establishing a trend for stylish solar. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

Here’s a not so comforting discovery: A new paper in Science magazine says that Arctic sea ice melting is starting to dilute surface waters and threatening the tiny shellfish called pteropods that are the base of the Arctic food chain. Those small swimming snails get eaten by fish, which in turn …Read the full story on TreeHugger

One solution for getting clean electricity to the 440-some million people in rural India who currently don’t have grid power (or any power…) is to build wind farms, solar power plants, or use some decentralized but still tech-heavy option such as solar panels. And then there’s rice husks and biomass gasification. Not a new technology, bu…Read the full story on TreeHugger

A group of 35 nations have agreed to a plan that aims to reduce global deforestation by 25% by 2015, The Guardian reports. The price tag for it all could run as high as $36 billion over the next five years. Now who will pay for it all?…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Maryland Offshore Wind Development
Martin O’Malley, the governor of Maryland, would like to see offshore wind power developed off the cost of his state, but the U.S. military has expressed fears that the turbines could “disrupt flight and weapon test ranges, as well as erroneously appear on radar as unidentifiable aircraft.” Three military bases in the region are using that area in the Atlantic for training missions and flight tests….Read the full story on TreeHugger

Does It Matter? Depends How You Look at It…
Autocar reports that a source inside the company told them that Rolls Royce could have an electric version of its Phantom super-luxury car on the road by the end of 2010: “Internally it’s thought that the near-silence of electric propulsion, and the fact that full torque is available from a standstill, would align perfectly with Rolls-Royce’s core values. Engineers are currently hard at work making this a reality, although a running prototype has yet t…Read the full story on TreeHugger