Weekly Web Roundup: iPhone apps, incandescent light bulbs, autonomobile
- Kim Ranney
- Sr. Online Marketing and Production Associate, New York City
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- Posted July 10, 2009 in The Media and the Environment
- Countries in Central America and the Caribbean rank highest on the Happy Planet Index list of places to live a long, sustainable life.
- Senate testimony begins on climate and energy legislation.
- The Bell Labs office park in New Jersey could become an indoor main street with residential units.
- Looking for green iPhone apps? Grist has a handy guide.
- Pickens walks away from plan to build world's largest wind farm.
- Here are ten low-tech ways to keep your house cool.
- A new McDonald's opening in North Carolina will be the first to have an electric car charging station in its parking lot.
- The New York Times profiles Will Allen, a Growing Green Award winner.
- San Francisco's mayor orders all city departments to audit unused land--including rooftops, median strips and more--to see what can be turned into community gardens or farms.
- Find out how the government's energy policy is sparking innovation with incandescent light bulbs.
- Google phone designers present the autonomobile, a seven-person moving living room that drives for you.
- Government unveils new rules that it will pay up to 30 percent of the cost of renewable energy projects.
- Members of Congress and consumer groups question purity of USDA regulated organic label.
Think I missed anything really great? Feel free to share it in the comments section. Want news updates every day? Check out my colleague Ben Jervey's blog on Greenlight.
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