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Global warming aside, switching from polluting fossil fuels to less-polluting alternatives will reduce smog and improve our health. Alternatives such as wind power, solar power, geothermal energy, fuel cells and biofuels can help reduce our carbon footprint and keep our air significantly cleaner. It all starts, however, with Conservation!
General Pages

  1. Global Energy Guide

  2. In-depth: Fuelling the Future

  3. Renewable Energy Guide

  4. Renewable Energy - Wikipedia

  5. Alternatives to Oil

  6. How should Britain produce electricity?

  7. Renewable energy quiz

  8. Ethical links provided by BBC Newsnight

  9. Splitting water molecules the next 'green' power source?

Energy Conservation

  1.  Green power: How clean is your electricity? [USA]

  2. Carbon Footprint Calculator
    To complete this, you will need data on house size (m2 or sq. ft.), car fuel efficiency (mpg or L/100km) and energy use.

  3. Facts & Figures about carbon use

  4. Best energy strategy: small, green and local

  5. Energy Saving Trust

  6. Your impact on climate change

  7. What can I do today?

  8. Energy-saving products

  9. Home Improvements

  10. Generate your own energy

  11. ZeroFootPrint.net - Reduce your footprint

  12. ZeroFootPrint Calculator

  13. 'Go green, or else' - what the average family can do

  14. Ethical Man's top ten tips for ethical living - Panorama

  15. A British Example - BedZED

  16. Saving energy on the home front

  17. How you can save energy

Wind Power

  1. Wikipedia: Wind Power | Wind Farms | Wind Turbines

  2. How a wind turbine works (graphic)

  3. Wind Farms: The Key Issues (BBC Action Network)

  4. Installed Capacity - Countries around the world

  5. UK wind power reaches milestone

  6. Thames estuary wind farm gets go-ahead

  7. Dutch build towering wind turbines out at sea

  8. Ships on legs: How wind turbines are guilt at sea

  9. More efficient wind turbine blade designed

Solar Energy

  1. Solar energy conversion offers a solution to help reduce global warming

  2. New solar technology greatly improves efficiency

  3. Australia's Alice Springs goes solar

  4. California's first LEED-certified all-solar multi-family community

  5. New flexible solar panels are inexpensive and easy to make

  6. Screen-printed solar cells in many colours and even used in windows

Geothermal Energy

  1. A step towards inexpensive geothermal energy

  2. Iceland: Energy from hot rocks

  3. Geothermal energy exploration: Deep drilling for black smoker clues

Fuel Cell Technology

  1. How a hydrogen fuel cell works - Ballard Power Systems

  2. Wikipedia: Fuel Cells

  3. Italy to build world's first hydrogen-fired power plant - ENS

Wave Power

  1. Scottish wave farms show potential energy

  2. How wave power works

  3. Orkney's to get 'biggest' wave farm

  4. Tidal turbine electricity generator to be put to sea

Bio-energy / Biofuels

  1. Biofuels: Green energy or grim reaper?

  2. Biofuels - an advisable strategy?

  3. UN warns on impact of biofuels

  4. Environmental warning on biofuels

  5. Biofuel demand makes food more expensive

  6. Biofuels need strict standards

  7. Increase in biofuels pushes up food prices

  8. Biofuel rush harmful - Oxfam

  9. McDonald's UK to make biodiesel from cooking oil

  10. Brazil's sugar crop fuels nation's cars

  11. Sugar could power iPods, cell phones and other electronics more efficiently

  12. Biofuels to 'push farm prices up'

  13. Corn, soy, sugarcane biofuels worse environmentally than fossil fuels

  14. Grass biofuels 'cut CO2 by 94%'

  15. Biofuel crops increase carbon emissions

  16. Biofuel crops that require destroying native ecosystems worsens global warming

Energy from Waste

  1. Ford Canada turns harmful fumes into electricity

 
Danish off-shore wind farmhttp://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=996