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Videoconferencing - business is booming! Gas prices or environmental concern?

What do Robert Downey Junior and videoconferencing have in common? Give up? Both were born in 1965 and are having their renaissance in 2008, a mere 43ish years after introduction to this world. Each has shown flashes of brilliance in years past, but 2008 is finally their year. Sure, Tropic Thunder and Ironman are no Batman, and videoconferencing isn’t Beijing, but believe after those two behomoths of the summer, RD Jr and videoconferencing are top notch right now.

The cement industry creates 5-7% of the worlds CO2 emissions. In order to reduce this impact on global warming, Canadian cement company Lafarge North America is developing alternative fuels to fire their kilns. They plan to use good ol' switchgrass, woody plants, industrial hemp, plastics, and tires....huh? Tires?! Yep, tires!

Although the wind turbine industry continues to surge, the availability of construction commodities is steadily plunging. After years of fighting, Cape Cod NIMBO(cean)s may have beat Cape Wind's Jeff Gordon at his own game.

Here's a timely follow-up to Max's "word of the day", biogas. There was an article today in the New York Times about the many types of waste to energy (biogas is just one) that are finally becoming economically viable because of the high cost of gasoline.

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