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Bentley rolls on renewable fuels

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To the manor born, to today's green-minded world adapted?

Will a luxury car lose street cred if it starts talking about fuel efficiency?

Is a bird in the hand worth a cleantech facility?

Australia’s orange-bellied parrot is so rare, it’s estimated less than 200 of them can be found in the wild. For years, the governments of South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania have worked with conservationists to protect the critically-endangered bird. They’ve found that saving the species may not necessarily be synonymous with saving the environment.

Ocean glider

thermal glider

If it were a little bigger it might serve as a banana boat.

Cue the Jaws theme.

Power Air taking CEO applications again

Just two weeks after introducing the fuel cell company's first commercial product at the Consumer Electronics Show, Power Air (OTC:PWAC) CEO Remy Kozak has made a different kind of announcement.

Stepping down from his executive position "effective immediately," Kozak is to remain with the Livermore-based company until the end of February to ease the transition of power.

India's sacred cow gets help feeding the world

Israel doesn’t think India's cows are good enough.

Surprisingly, India agrees.

According to The Economic Times, the Israeli agricultural minister offered India technological assistance in improving dairy production. This apparently includes applying "the genetic properties of Israeli cows" to the local livestock, according to the article.

The lack of protest is unexpected given that India is arguably the only other place on earth [ed.: other than California?] that happy cows could call home.

Carbon cruiselines

Pity Carnival cruises. Not only has its public relations office had to deal with passengers falling deathly ill of noroviruses, but now it has to fight charges that it releases too much carbon.

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