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The Motley Fool August 12, 2011 Alyce Lomax	How Wasteful Are Your Companies? Big companies you own may have better eco-policies than you thought.
The Motley Fool August 12, 2011 Travis Hoium	Solar Power May Be Asked to Protect and Serve The U.S. Army is making a big push for renewable energy, and it's a smarter move than you may think.
The Motley Fool August 12, 2011 Evan Niu	Ford and SunPower, Together at Last Will you "Drive Green for Life"? Ford and SunPower have teamed up to hopefully ensure that the new Focus Electric, entering production later this year, will run on clean solar power.
National Defense September 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Energy: Small, Incremental Steps Do Better Than Sweeping Reforms The Air Force saved $700 million in its five-year fuel budget just by redirecting flights through shorter routes and choreographing more efficient itineraries for cargo deliveries.
National Defense September 2011 Eric Beidel	Lasers to Aid Machine Guns Aboard Ships Sailors soon may have a new weapon to use on the high seas, one that combines the precision of directed energy with the lethal power of a machine gun.
National Defense September 2011 Eric Beidel	Mask Sucks in Viruses and Kills Them The Food and Drug Administration has approved for sale to the U.S. government a facemask that traps and kills viruses. The mask could be carried in soldiers' rucksacks in case of outbreaks and emergencies.
National Defense September 2011 Eric Beidel	Bomb Disposal Teams Shed Battery Weight Members of Navy explosive ordnance disposal teams are used to lugging around 50 pounds of batteries and chargers, but scientists are working on a system that weighs just 9 pounds and would give them all the power they need.
National Defense September 2011 David C. Ake	Why Troops Love, and Sometimes Hate, the MRAP To date, more than 27,000 MRAPs have been produced. Nearly 15,000 are now in Afghanistan. Commanders there have all but phased out the use of flat-bottomed Humvees outside the wire. About 2,000 MRAPs remain in the United States for training.
The Motley Fool August 11, 2011 Travis Hoium	Clean Energy Earnings Roundup Revenue is up but clean energy companies aren't seeing bottom-line growth quite yet.
Fast Company August 8, 2011 Anthonia Akitunde	International Day of Peace Brokering world peace may seem a near impossibility, but John Hunter, inventor of the World Peace Game, has seen it achieved hundreds of times - by children.
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