Step right up and buy your indulgences: 2009 Green Inaugural Ball Selects NativeEnergy As Sole Carbon Offset Provider

With many new renewable energy and greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects across the country, Native Energy is providing the event with high-quality offsets from a portfolio of its projects, including: The KILI Radio tribal-owned wind project on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and the Mains Family Dairy Farm methane energy project in Pennsylvania. The 80-foot KILI wind turbine at the station’s headquarters replaces grid-linked electricity (mostly coal) with renewable energy. The Mains Family Dairy project includes a new anaerobic digester, which generates methane/carbon emission reductions as well as electricity to power the farm's operations.

Solar Power, Suffering in the Recession, Needs a Bailout Too - TIME

The bad economy is clearly the main culprit — with houses and jobs at risk, fewer consumers are willing to make a long-term bet on a solar system — but so have ebbing subsidies for solar in Europe, where manufacturers in the U.S. still send most of their product abroad. Without Spain and Germany — leaders in European solar — soaking up systems, the research firm New Energy Finance estimates an oversupply in the industry of nearly 4 gigawatts in 2009. "There's real concern about the policy risks in Europe," says Christopher O'Brien, the head of North American market development for Oerlikon Solar.

But did they order him to freeze?: Deputies apprehend man nearly frozen

A Milwaukee teen fleeing law enforcement in a snowstorm Monday was apprehended before he froze to death.

Staff at St. Joseph Hospital in West Bend stated had the man not been apprehended by the officers when he did, exposure to the cold weather would have caused permanent injuries or even death, according to a press release from the Wisconsin State Patrol.