It’s an overused term yet to be fully embraced by the average consumer, but “green building” dominated the 2010 International Builders Show in Las Vegas, from seminars to the 1,100 exhibitors of home-building products, materials and construction techniques.
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid said Thursday the Senate will debate a sweeping climate change bill this spring, and he will use it as a vehicle to seek more federal research dollars and more generous tax credits for geothermal development.
The sun already shines year-round in Nevada.
An interim legislative committee on Tuesday asked the state Public Utilities Commission to investigate a new form of electric rate that supporters say would boost “green” energy jobs.
Federal money is on the way to help companies develop as much energy from the ground in Nevada as Hoover Dam generates from the Colorado River.
ELY — Construction of White Pine County’s first commercial wind turbine farm could begin as early as next summer and bring up to 200 workers to the rural area, project officials said.
During the next five years, it is estimated that U.S. consumers will eventually be able to choose from 150 models of new cars, trucks or SUVs when deciding whether to buy hybrid electric, plug-in hybrid electric or pure electric vehicle.
NEW YORK — Jillian Lung says she’s no environmentalist. Still, she couldn’t pass up a chance to install a carpet of solar panels atop her co-op in Queens.
The Las Vegas Regional Clean Cities Coalition and the Alternative Fuel Vehicles Institute recently joined forces to host a one-day workshop, entitled “The A to Z of AFVs.”
On a recent road trip to the Midwest, I kept noticing something new on the horizon: windmills. In state after state, wind farms were almost as ubiquitous as cornfields.
RENO — A Reno casino has hit the jackpot: An underground geothermal water source just north of one of its new 17-story hotel towers that will generate enough heat and hot water for all 2.1 million square feet of the resort’s space.
October is National Energy Awareness month and this year’s theme is “A Sustainable Energy Future; Putting All the Pieces Together.” The idea is to encourage everyone to see how they fit into the big picture.
Who doesn’t remember the DeLorean, an unmistakably styled 1980s sports car that was put on the mainstream map by the “Back to the Future” trilogy movie series starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd?
