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I love Sweden. They’re aiming for an oil-free economy in 15 years without any nuclear!! Why can’t we be more like them? I wonder.

Strength in numbers. That’s true in a lot of contexts; company in our passionate pursuits empowers us and gives us more strength to face our numerous challenges. So, here’s a great post by green LA girl (a much linked-to blog about green stuff around L.A.) about sites that help link together people with eco-consciences.

In the developed world, we use SO much water every day. Considering how much we don’t really need to be using, how much we could reasonably conserve, it’s pretty wasteful. The BBC provides a Water calculator to help you figure out how much your household uses, and how that measures up to the average. The measurements are in litres, but for the metrically-challenged such as myself, they provide estimates, so it’s entirely manageable.

This design doesn’t appear to be affiliated with any major car company, but it’s a great idea: a new frame for the car that makes it a lot lighter. Lighter things take less energy to move (they have less inertia), so they use less gas to go the same distance, therefore the mileage is a lot better than heavier cars.

I’m commuting to work by bike this summer, and thinking that I might continue to bike to work as long as I can. Here’s a great guide to bike commuting, from Hugg.

I want to know how David Roberts and friends at Gristmill get so much good stuff in terms of eco-news.

Just go visit Gristmill regularly. They have about 10 wonderful posts every day.

I too, like David Roberts at Gristmill, need to learn more about Concentrated Solar Power (CSP). Looks pretty promising, but we’ll see. You know how these things tend to turn out. Reducing Europe’s CO2 emissions by 70% in 45 years sounds pretty cool.

Gristmill gives us another humorous and exceedingly interesting post, this one about how leading thinkers in all sorts of fields are contributing their ideas toward global warming solutions. The post focuses on Joseph Stiglitz’s suggestion that the WTO impose trade barriers toward importation of American goods made using the dirty energy that we use most of the time. Read on here.

I think Treehugger bottles up the posts they put out on the weekend, and just post them all on Monday. There were a number of good ones in today’s deluge.

One about how Ottawa’s city council has approved a light rail project for the city, and the mayor is looking to extend it even farther.

A post about the rise of eco-friendly commuting in Sydney, Australia due to rising oil costs.

Two interesting articles in the British Columbia newspaper The Tyee: one about the mayor of Bogota and how he’s working for urban community in his city, and one about DeSmogBlog, which aims to combat spin regarding climate change.

This page is pretty popular on Digg/Science right now (but what shows up on Digg changes all the time). It’s a list of the top 10 fuel-efficient cars on the market these days. Big surprise, hybrids are at the top. But I find it cool because it’s doing well on Digg, which is a little more mainstream than, say, Hugg or Treehugger.