In the May issue of North American Windpower, Risa will be guest authoring an article on the importance of environmental justice and community history in windfarm siting. Check us out!

Want to see how "enlightened" your state is when it comes to energy conservation through lightbulb replacement? Make sure you visit this interesting site: 18 Seconds.

Professional cycling is the first American pro sport to have a carbon-neutral team. The Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team (presented by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company) is planning on purchasing 460,600 kWh of wind power credits. The credits will be used to offset emissions during traveling to pro cycling races.

A $1 billion skyscraper designed by a Santa Monica architect will be built in Paris. It is largely powered by wind energy.

From MSNBC:

PARIS — Developers have selected a design by an award-winning American architect for a bold new building nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tower — and powered partly by the wind.

Dubbed the Lighthouse, the 984-foot-high skyscraper will be designed by Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne and erected at La Defense, a complex of office towers in a business district west of Paris where many of France’s major corporations are headquartered.

The Unibail development company announced Monday that Mayne, who works for Santa Monica, Calif.-based firm Morphosis, had bested nine other architects to win the bid. His design shows a building curving asymmetrically upward, topped by a crown of spiky antennae.

The building is expected to be completed in 2012.

In case Chicago Green City Market devotees didn't know, the Market is open through December! The Green City Market supports local farmers who practice sustainable agriculture and is a favorite of local chefs.