Articles by Sara Barz
Sara Barz is a writer based in Seattle.
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PowerVote erects 30 nine-foot windmills at Ole Miss for presidential debate
Thirty nine-foot-tall windmills today are spinning a big welcome message for John McCain and Barack Obama on the campus of Ole Miss for tonight’s first presidential debate. Power Vote — a nonpartisan youth voter campaign — erected the windmill "political art installation" to whip-up support for clean energy as an issue in the 2008 election. […]
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Gas shortages plague the Southeast
Gas lines snake through parking lots, independent gas retailers ration supplies, and fights break-out at gasoline-starved filling stations across the Southeast … Gas shortages throughout the Southeast continue after several oil refineries in the Gulf Coast region were knocked off line after the double whammy of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. Though two refineries have plans […]
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An interview with Wikia’s Jimmy Wales about his new green venture
Jimmy Wales. Jimmy Wales, best known as a cofounder of Wikipedia, is now channeling some of his energy and ambition into the environmental realm, aiming to build “the world’s handbook for going green.” Wikia, Inc., Wales’ for-profit company (not to be confused with Wikipedia, a project of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation), announced this month that […]
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Tesla profile in New Scientist
For those upset about the bashing electric vehicles have taken recently, check out this glowing profile ($ub. req’d) of Tesla — and its Roadster — in New Scientist magazine today. The Roadster does 0-60 in four seconds, tops out at 130 mph, and only costs $109,000 (sigh … not in this writer’s budget this year). […]
