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Editor’s note: This is just the kind of thing that I love to see. And though their’s is a very small business with minimal energy needs, this same type of hybrid system can be used on thousands of similar and larger small business operations. That’s thousands of tons of greenhouse gases that would not be pumped into the atmosphere.
The recycling center at East 91st Street and Hillcrest Road has switched to solar energy for its power.
“We’ve never had any electricity here at the center,” said Richard Gordon of Bridging the …

While even the Bush administration now admits that environmental degradation is a fact, no concrete plans are being proposed to eliminate the very real problem of global warming.
By Larry Boudreau - San Antonio Express-News
So a comment by a friend, who enjoys reading the New Testament put the problem of greenhouse gas and the resulting environmental degradation in perspective.
He said: “The last judgment will probably come before the U.S. public will give up its romance with cars, including gas-guzzling SUVs and pick-up trucks.”
How true this is becomes obvious when we consider …

Ontario is on its way to becoming a major centre for solar power, and will soon see thousands of solar panels spread out over acres of land, feeding clean power into the power grid.
Year-end numbers show an explosion of interest in building solar generating systems, from individuals who want to put a few panels on their roof, to businesses investing in huge solar farms.
<h3>A huge increase in contracts to supply the grid means the province may soon be home to some of the planet’s biggest arrays</h3>
By Richard Blackwell
Globe and Mail …

One day nearly four years ago, it suddenly seemed like a good idea to give solar electricity a try at home — home, for me, being an apartment house in Washington Heights, alias upstate Manhattan. The price of electricity was climbing. A war was being fought, if not over oil, then certainly over the ground the oil was in. Solar technology had proven that it could generate real power.
And while the building may not have been in the eternal sunshine of Arizona, it does stand on one of the highest …

By Peter Lynch
Exclusively for InvestorIdeas.com
In past articles I have tried to apply general descriptions for activity in the years that I feel were, in retrospect, the Dawn of the Solar Age.2005 was “The Year of Solar Stocks”, solar stocks outperformed the general averages by 20 FOLD, gaining an average of 134% verses the major indexes average gain of 6%.
2006 was “The Year of the Solar IPO”, a year in which the largest number of solar related companies, to date, came public though IPO’s.
2007 was “The Year of Thin Film Solar” …