The Green Taxi Grant Program is a federal grant that will help the taxi industry purchase cost-effective hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles. The initiative also helps the City to move closer to reaching carbon emission goals as set out in the Chicago Climate Action Plan and provide passengers with trips in modern and environmentally sustainable vehicles.

For more info visit the City’s Department of Business Affairs & Consumer Protection website at cityofchicago.org/BACP

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We are dismayed to hear that Dr. Paul Epstein of Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global Environment passed away on Sunday. In February 2011, Greenpeace was lucky enough to host a press conference on board the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise to release a study he directed entitled, “Full Cost Accounting for the Full Lifecycle of Coal.” Dr. Epstein’s work was invaluable to the understanding of climate change and he will be missed.

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/harvard-study-500-billion-full-cost-of-coal/blog/33350/

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In this episode of the livechat series “Energy Matters,” Dr. Arun Majumdar takes questions from the public about the investments we’re making today that will move us off of foreign oil and toward the clean energy infrastructure of our future.

Duration : 0:43:38

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Mark Matthews, V.P. of Sales and Marketing with WindTamer Turbines discusses; combining Wind with Solar power, how the WindTamer surpasses the “Betz Limit” and off-grid applications. Mr. Matthews holds a B.S. in Engineering Management and Chemical Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology

Duration : 0:9:24

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3/4/10: Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) tells the Wonk Room that the U.S. Senate needs to get over their fear and cast a vote for clean energy job creation.

Transcript: I’m always kinda reluctant to say why other people do things. I will just say this. Two things that we need the Senate, for Senators to stand up and realize.

Number one: the American people get this, and they want strong action on clean energy. I’ve talked to some of my fellow politicians who seem to say Americans don’t want to act.

That’s just not right!

If you go out and talk to Americans, and look at the polling results — at Frank Lutz [sic], Frank Lutz is a Republican pollster, he went out and polled on this — guess what, the Republicans found out in their poll that something like by two-to-one margins Americans want action on clean energy. And the reason they want action on clean energy is they understand like I do that this is the greatest job-creation-potential engine that is available to us right now.

And whatever you think of global climate change, you know and Americans know that this is the way we’re going to create millions of new jobs in this country. That’s what the Apollo Alliance is all about. is pushing this idea.

And Americans get this in their gut, and they’re willing to make the investments in the short term to get benefits in the long term and even the short term for job creation. That’s number one.

Number two: I would counsel people who don’t want to move on this to just get over their fear. Because frankly it’s fear that’s holding back. It’s people who are afraid that Americans aren’t smart enough to invent new technologies to deal with that. That we’re not bold enough like we used to be when we went to the moon with the original Apollo project.

You’ve gotta get over that fear. We’re just as smart as when we went to the moon. Our kids are smarter than we are. They’re just as energetic. We have an entrepreneurial engine of creation of new businesses in this country, that includes China, if we’ll just unleash it.

So what I would say: Put away your fear, get a little dose of confidence, cast a vote that has trust in America’s entrepreneurial spirit, and we will beat this beast and America will grow economically. And I really believe this. So I hope the Senate gets the message.

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