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Read the full post at Technology Review.

Yesterday, Al Gore said that the United States should produce all of its electricity from carbon-free, renewable energy within 10 years. Although he didn’t lay out specifics, he seems to want to do it with wind, solar, and geothermal, although it’s not clear from his speech whether nuclear would be acceptable. Can it be done? It isn’t likely.

Read the full post from Plenty Magazine.

This past Saturday, Bon Jovi performed a free concert in Central Park as part of the festivities for baseball’s All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. Sixty thousand fans on NYC’s Great Lawn helped the National Resource Defense Council’s (NRDC) “Green Team” of 60 volunteers (that’s one per 1,000 attendees!) packing giant recycling bags with bottles and cans not already jammed into recycling bins.

Tuesday’s game, starring the Yanks’ Derek Jeter and news-trodden A-Rod playing with rival Red Sox against Chicago’s Cubs and others, is going to be eco-friendly thanks to the NRDC’s work with Major League Baseball (MLB), powering the ballpark with renewable wind energy, offering hybrid shuttles for fans, and giving away 700,000 reusable tote bags.

The Hall of Fame parade features a green “red carpet” manufactured with 100 percent recycled fiber and 100 percent renewable electricity. Bentley Prince Street is the first carpet maker to receive a LEED-EB silver rating from the U.S. Green Building Council, and the 45,000-pound rug will be recycled afterwards.

Read the full story in the New York Times.

Al Gore received an enthusiastic welcome at Netroots Nation, the annual conference of progressive bloggers.

Read the full story in the New York Times.

As gasoline prices soar, police chiefs in towns and cities across the country are ordering their officers out of the car and onto their feet in a budgetary scramble.