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A growing number of college campuses and exercise clubs across the country are using technology that allows workouts to produce watts.

Here is a little something that has pretty much gone under the wirea . But something with a potential outcome that could spell some very far-reaching implications to Defense of Marriage amendments across the country.Thursday, the Wisconsin State Supreme Court formally issued notice it intends to review the case of McConkey v. J.B. Van Hollen, et.al... This a case were a University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh professor William McConkey and father of a gay child, is challenging the legality of the 2006 referendum amendment to Wisconsin 's constitution banning same-sex marriage and civil unions.... McConkey argues that amendment should be nullified because the two questions in the referendum should have been voted on separately. A win in the Wisconsin Supreme Court will give marriage equality supporters elsewhere a model to begin taking on similarly written Defense of Marriage amendments in other states, making this a very important court case indeed.

Tackling climate change hinges on rich countries paying for the transfer of low carbon schemes to emerging economiesNew financial mechanisms to ensure the transfer of low-carbon technology to emerging economies will help achieve a meaningful breakthrough at the Copenhagen climate change conference in December, according to a report by an alliance of some of the world's leading thinktanks.The recently formed Global Climate Network, which includes the UK's Institute for Public Policy research, the Center for American Progress led by John Podesta, head of Barack Obama's presidential transition team, and the influential research Centre for Sustainable Development from China, is gathering in London this week to establish a policy to fund action to fight global warming using solar power, wind, carbon capture and energy efficiency.These include harnessing the cheap borrowing facilities available in rich countries to be targeted at low-carbon energy in poorer countries. Encouraging pension fun

. Academics and green groups say system for assessing need is 'fatally flawed'. Worries over leaving final decision on nuclear plants to Ed MilibandThe government is under growing pressure to hold a public inquiry into building new nuclear stations amid claims that the current system of 'justification' is fatally flawed and that public confidence in ministers is at an all-time low.A group of leading academics has joined green pressure groups and others in demanding greater transparency. The justification process is required by the European Union as a high-level assessment to ensure the benefits of new-build nuclear stations outweigh potential detriments.The academics, part of the Nuclear Consultation Group (NGC), have written to the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) calling for an inquiry, not least because the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has made himself the final authority in the justification of new power stations, even though he has voiced support for building more