Nordic, located in harsh-wintered Finland, is taking radical steps toward redefining its national electric grid. Already at the forefront of grid transformation (a law that requires all homes to have smart meters by 2013), Finland now wants to connect smart meters and homeowners to social networks, ushering in an unprecedented, community-based grid dynamic.
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Community gardening is taking up a new energetic form across the country. Rather than rows of corn, leaf lettuce and heirloom tomatoes, friends and neighbors are planting solar gardens. The power of the collective solar will is already evidenced by the successes of organizations like One Block Off The Grid (1BOG) and companies like SolarCity [...]

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The open-access journal PLos Biology presented a novel finding by a team of researchers from the Univeristy of Linnaeus, in Sweden, and colleagues from Spain, explaining how oceanic bacteria harvests light energy from sunlight by using a unique photoprotein.

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