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Robert "Chip" Beam built his own wood-powered pickup truck. The wood-burning, or rather wood-gas burning truck is now a sort of mascot for Beaver Energy, the Williamsport, Pennsylvania based startup company Beam and partners Larry Shilling and Aron Lantz have formed.

If he did it, you could too. Read on for tips and links to learn how to make your own Wood-powered Pickup Truck, with videos of the wood-powered pickup truck in action and a video guide to building your own wood-gas generator....

Earthrace, billed as "the world's fastest, coolest and greenest powerboat" launches today, seeking to break the world record for circumnavigation in a power boat. Over two years have passed since Earthrace announced their intention to break the record in "one of the most eco-friendly boats ever made". Two years during which even the mainstream experienced intense sensitization to green issues. Will this newly informed public still be enthralled by the excitement of seeing green technology pushed to its limits, or will the question be: "is that the flatten-the-rainforest biodiesel or the take-food-from...

(A Few Good Men: CLIMACT’s Pascal Vermeulen, Dimitri Mertens and Hugues de Meulemeester)

Those following the carbon offset market closely might be wondering about the differences in missions and motives between providers who are in it for profit, versus the ones who have gone the non-profit route.

Today Carbon Catalog, the resource that offers a directory and fair glance at the world’s offset providers selling online, interviews the for-profit Belgian-based provider CLIMA...

We love it when architects and designers get green building right. So what projects are rising to the top this year? Today, the American Institute of Architects announced the 2008 COTE Top Ten Green Projects. Judges were keen on sustainable principals and low energy consumption -- not to mention slick design.

Above is the Cesar Chavez Library in Tucson, Arizona by Line and Space which uses its hat-shaped roof for rainwater collection. More winning projects......