There are some electric conversions that are just too interesting to pass up. We’ve talked about a 16 year old who built his own electric truck and the EcoModder co-founder’s $672 electric car, but we’ve yet to look at a car like this one.

Trees from Solar Botanic that will use 3 forms of available energy; heat, wind, and solar to provide every culture with an energy solution.

Just about everyone is talking about something "green" these days. Whether it's green cars, green buildings, or just the green focused lifestyle itself, you can hardly turn around without someone pushing some green concept in your face. It's enough to turn a person, well, green.

General Motors Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner, appearing on Capitol Hill, called on Congress to support advanced-battery development in the U.S., which he said lags far behind the government-supported development efforts in Japan and South Korea.

“Whether or not we use ... geo-engineering, the planet is likely, massively and cruelly, to cull us, in the same merciless way we have eliminated so many species by changing their environment into one where survival is difficult.”

If the results hold true, it would mean a far more limited amount of time left to reverse global warming process. “I would say about six or seven years. We need to think about change rather quickly because unless we do that, then the impacts of climate change are going to get more and more serious,” Pachauri said.

The word, scam, gets thrown around all over the place, and probably nothing on the internet is free from its reach. Not only was it impossible that the Retire In One Year program was ever a scam, or even a sham, but it is now barreling forward with more success thanks to the much needed program change.

It is hoped that the fund will raise up to 21 billion dollars over the next 13 years from nations around the world. Norway has already chipped in, pledging 100 million dollars to kick things off. Brazil has made it clear though that donations are only being accepted with a condition of no strings being attached.

At the beginning of the month of June 2008, Karl Green made a quick decision to improve the RIOY program. The process has been sped up for members in RIOY, as far as getting into the final program. The compensation plan has also changed, and it has gotten much better.

You'll hear a PC labeled as many things, from "an uber-gaming system" to "budget-minded" and more, but this PC is "eco-friendly," or as Dell calls it, its first "conscientious" desktop. It was announced (though unnamed) at Fortune Brainstorm: Green in Los Angeles on (what else) Earth Day, earlier this year, and launched on Tuesday. The idea of this desktop PC was to put laptop components into it, to reduce size and power consumption.