Gas Mileage

Lauren Fix the Car Coach explains how to save up to $100 a month at the pump.

What 'wood' you use?

It may come as a surprise that environmentalists are increasingly turning to wood as a renewable, alternative energy source. Find out why it's environmentally-friendly and how it could reduce your household energy bill in this week's show.

Afghan Green Energy

It's a green energy dream. The sun shines all day and the wind blows constantly. But alternative energy is the last thing you might expect, here in Afghanistan's war-torn Panjshir Valley. Yet after three decades of violence tragedy and destruction, this is where Afghanistan could be going green.

Everything You Need to Know About Electric Cars

Electric cars are coming. But how much do you really know about them? How much money will you save on gas? Where and when can you charge them? What happens if you want to charge your car at a friends house? GOOD's latest video answers all these questions and more.

Electric Car Battery's Record Range of 280 Miles Per Charge

A German company has developed a battery-powered electric car capable of driving 280 miles on a single charge. The company says the car can be made for a price similar to a conventional petrol fueled car - some very good news for the environment.

Kites pulling their weight for the environment

A German engineer is marketing kites designed to pull oil tankers out of their heavy dependence on fuel. These 'Skysails' can reduce the fuel consumption of ships by 10,000 tonnes a day. With oil prices rising, they might just catch on.

Dead Flies and Mice Could Power Future Robots

Scientists are developing autonomous robots that can generate their own power. Microbial fuel cells could be the answer, since these microbes can turn any organic material into electricity. UK researchers say they could be the future of sustainable energy.

They're on the lookout for something that can fuel a truly autonomous robot. One that can extract power from any environment it operates in. And it would never run out of juice.

UK researchers are looking into microbial fuel cells, or MFCs. These tiny microbes can turn organic matter into electricity. This could potentially allow robots to function in remote, or even hazardous environments with no worry about their next battery charge.

This is because MFCs can extract electrical energy from any organic material that's digestible by the microbes in the fuel cell. All you need to do is to feed the MFC food - be it plant matter, flies or dead mice. And this will trigger a digestion process that can make electricity. Conventional fuel cells and batteries rely on a catalyst to speed up chemical reactions to make electricity. But they degrade and need replenishing. On the other hand MFCs just need food, and these microbes will continue to generate electricity..

Growing the next 'green' fuel

Will algae fuel the car of tomorrow? Harrison Dillon, CTO of Solazyme is growing strains of algae to produce various kinds of renewable oils. He hopes that over the next few years, people will start consuming algae derived products like gasoline, household cleaners, and makeup without ever realizing it.

Building powered by cooking oil

It may not seem like it, but used cooking oil could be the world's next hot commodity. PriceWaterhouseCoopers, a London-based accountancy firm, is buying up as much of it as it can, using the oil as fuel to power its offices. The new headquarters is now one of the most eco-friendly buildings in London.

Smarter aerodynamics make big rigs more fuel efficient

The scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are testing new drag reduction devices that could one day make large trucks more aerodynamic. The new truck designs will provide trucks more fuel efficiency, possibly saving the trucking industry as much as 10 billion dollars in fuel costs.

Is Human Waste the New Coal?

Dean Kamen visits a power plant that is taking human excrement and turning it in to a burnable fuel supply with 66% more power per ounce than coal! The manufacturing process takes a day as opposed to centuries.  If all the waste treatment facilities in America made e-fuel, we would reduce carbon emissions by an astonishing 6.5 million tons a year.  That's the equivalent of taking more than a million cars off the road.

Cracking the carpool conundrum

Getting employees to rideshare has always been a difficult challenge for businesses. But Paul McGrath, CEO of Ridespring may have an answer. He's developed web-based software that organizes carpooling into a one-stop destination, so users can share their daily commute information across the organization more easily. The software also has incentives built-in, so the more employees carpool the more likely they are to be rewarded for ridesharing.