http://www.greencoolhip.com ...Green can be Cool & Hip... Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:10:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The United States Marine Corps is going greener and today completed its largest installation of a 1.4 megawatt solar power plant to generate renewable electricity for Camp Pendleton. The plant is expected to generate 2400 megawatt-hours a year.  The project cost around 9 million dollars and will save the Corps in ... http://www.greencoolhip.com/green-technology/283/us-marine-corps/ Looking back at 2010, a lot of good things have happened over the last twelve months for the green industry.  To only list a few, Nissan delivered its first electric vehicle, the Leaf.  Audi retrofitted an A2 with an electric engine and ran it for over 6 hours without rechardging, ... http://www.greencoolhip.com/green-technology/280/2010greenreview/ Lekker Energie and DBM Energy, both German companies, have just run 372 miles over 6 hours in an Audi A2 equipped with an electric engine on a single charge.  At the end of their world record event, there was still some electricity left over.  Mirko Hanneman is the  27 year ... http://www.greencoolhip.com/cool-stuff/277/372-miles-per-charge/ Back in my April post, I mentioned that President Obama could show his support of the alternative energy movement by bringing Solar energy back to the White House.  Today, he has made it official that he would reverse President Reagan's decision to take down the solar panels installed by President ... http://www.greencoolhip.com/green-technology/275/white-house-solar-panel/ Ford plans to release its firts fully electric car next year.  Currently, it's known as the Focus Electric and as its name indicates, it will be a Ford Focus.  This will be the first full electric car from one of Detroit's Big Three. Unlike its GM and Chrysler counterparts, Ford seems ... http://www.greencoolhip.com/cool-stuff/270/focus-electric/ Abengoa Solar and Abound Solar will receive nearly two billion dollars from the economic stimulus fund for building solar plants in the United States.  Both companies already have projects planned for the U.S., the most notable one being a 280 megawatts-electrical output plant for Gila Bend in Arizona to be ... http://www.greencoolhip.com/cool-stuff/266/obama-green-jobs/ Will President Obama bring solar panels back to the whitehouse? We may not all remember but President Jimmy Carter was a visionary in advocating alternative energy by bringing solar panel to the white house back in 1979.  President Reagan did the [now] unthinkable and removed them. While President Obama clearly and ... http://www.greencoolhip.com/green-technology/257/green-obama-to-be-or-not-to-be/ Worried that you may not have lived a green life or that your decomposing body, and coffin materials sipping in the ground may be more bad treatment that the planet deserves. Well, worry no more. After a lifetime of trashing the planet or taking of it, one can now satisfy ... http://www.greencoolhip.com/green-technology/253/live-green-die-green/ With its "Go Green" selection of spring watches, Casio is sure to generate a buzz thanks to its leading PRG110C-3 solar- powered watch. This cool watch uses the company's "Tough Solar Technology" hoping to reduce the number of batteries thrown out each year, thus lowering the level of toxic ... http://www.greencoolhip.com/cool-stuff/241/the-green-athlete-solar-powered-sport-watch/ The last two months have been particular busy trying to complete year-end projects, and as a result has taken my focus off the site. In addition, I recently got involved (from a technical standpoint) with the Rebuild Haiti effort now underway, following the recent earthquake which has devastated this ... http://www.greencoolhip.com/green-technology/232/2009-great-movies/