Taming The Desert When completed in 2025, Masdar City will pack 40,000 inhabitants into two square miles of carbon-neutral buildings. Courtesy Foster + Partners Why would a petro-state erect a solar-powered eco-metropolis in the middle of the Arabian...
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If the 2008 mortgage meltdown did anything to educate Americans about the complicated world of finance, it was to teach them about securitization. Securitization is the practice of pooling disparate sources of debt and selling it as a package to investors...
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Plague of deadly attacks A string of deadly attacks continued in Herat on Tuesday when a powerful roadside bomb killed at least seven Afghan policemen (BBC, Dawn, Pajhwok). The officers were guards at the Salma Dam and were heading to Herat City,...
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This rugged solar charger is powerful enough to charge up a smartphone in two hours, yet small enough to fit in your pocket.
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Rep. Lamar Smith, the new chair of the House Science and Technology Committee, wrote an op-ed in today’s Washington Post that contains several misrepresentations of fact. He argued for increased fossil fuel production, against the scientific consensus...
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Ever wondered what the impact of electric vehicle is so far? Well, wait no longer. An infograph recently released from vroomvroomvroom.ca shows some interesting numbers. In 2012, 62,400 electric vehicles were sold in the US, only 0.45% of cars sold....
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The despairing of May 2003 were convinced of one true thing, that we had not stopped the invasion of Iraq, but they extrapolated from that a series of false assumptions about our failures and our powerlessness across time and space.
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Filed under: Investing Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc. to supply its Open Architecture Utilities Management System on the Pilatus PC-24 EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc. (IS&S) (NAS: ISSC) announced today...
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This article written by JP McNeil, CEO of HERO Financing and Mahesh Shaw, CEO of FIGTREE Energy Financing More and more municipalities are embracing Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing programs as a valuable service they can offer to residents...
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Adidas missed its goal to verify supplier data last year, according to the company’s 2012 Sustainability Progress Report. The verification is a necessary step towards Adidas’s targeted 10-15 percent cut in relative energy consumption at core suppliers...
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1. FACT OR FAKEOUT? The boutique Jade Hotel may only be a few months old, but it has already has some pretty famous visitors. Last week, Cameron Diaz was spotted getting drinks at the bar and flirting with strangers. 2. FACT OR FAKEOUT? The Westin...
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Investigative reporter says she discovered tampering while investigating Obama's 'Fast and Furious' and green energy scandals
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Planning a graduation party, family reunion, or just a backyard barbecue with a few friends? Grill up a tasty feast without the big carbon footprint. If you’re planning a Memorial Day cookout, big or small, you’re probably tempted to reach for the...
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Roughly 70 percent of Americans say global warming should be a priority for President Obama and Congress and 61 percent support requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a carbon tax that would be used to help reduce the national debt, according to a new...
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Eos Energy Storage has released its second big announcement of the month, a funding boost that includes funding from NRG Energy, a major US energy company. I just featured a long post on Eos Energy Storage less than a month ago, followed soon after by...
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For years, oil producers have used natural gas to heat rock below ground to make the oil flow more easily. Oman will use solar power instead. ...
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Eos Energy Storage, a developer of zinc-air grid-scale battery technology, completed its $15-million Series B financing round with participation from a syndicate of 21 strategic and financial investors. Eos has developed Znyth, a zinc hybrid cathode...
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The Washington Post reports: The Energy Department gave a terminal near Freeport, Tex., permission Friday to ship liquefied natural gas to Japan, providing a new outlet for rising U.S. production of shale gas despite qualms of environmentalists and...
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360 Panoramic Home Tour: Live/Work Renovation in Atlanta With a sizable portfolio packed with innovative home, restaurant, retail, and office design, Cara Cummins and Jose Tavel of TaC Studios took their strategies for their clients to their own home....
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This guest post is by 17 leaders from across the state who oppose the expansion of coal exports. The fight against dramatically expanding coal exports scored a victory this month when three proposed coal port sites were abandoned by Houston-based Kinder...
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House members like Rep. Kevin McCarthy are still avid fossil-fuel proponents, but they've begun to advocate for renewables, too. ...
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Eos Energy Storage, the zinc-air battery startup targeting a super-low $160 per kilowatt-hour for grid-scale energy storage, has raised a $15 million Series B round from a syndicate of 21 strategic and financial investors, including Fisher Brothers and...
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Last Friday shares of Real Goods Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: RSOL) virtually doubled. Shares are up another 50% so far today and have been trading around $6 a share after posting a new 52-week high of $6.43......
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Huffington Post: Sustainable Intensification: Making Science the Solution for African Agriculture – Michael Hoevel, Deputy Director of Agriculture for Impact, writes “science-based agriculture offers a solution to tackling food insecurity and to...
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Tiffany Germain is a Senior Climate/Energy Researcher in the Think Progress War Room. The Canadian government has nearly doubled its spending to promote the Keystone XL pipeline to $16.5 million, up from $9 million a year ago. This dramatic spending...
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Fox 2 News Headlines A Marathon spokesperson told Fox 2 they sold the pet coke. It is now the property of Koch Carbon. Koch Carbon is part of Koch Industries, run by Charles and David Koch. When the huge black mounds that sit on the riverbanks of southwest...
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Pierre Delforge, Director, High Tech Sector Energy Efficiency, San Francisco: Making 15 products that touch every portion of our lives more energy-efficient could save Californians a whopping $1.2 billion off their utility bills annually by slashing...
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Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust Vast stretches of Texas farmland lying over the aquifer no longer support irrigation. In west-central Kansas, up to a fifth of the irrigated farmland along a 100-mile swath of the aquifer has already gone dry. In...
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As of today, Plug-in America says there have been 100,000 of the new generation of “plug-in” electrified vehicles (PEVs) sold in the U.S. Since the launch of highway legal cars such as Chevrolet’s Volt and Nissan’s Leaf in December 2010, plus...
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The New York Times Editorial Board detailed in yesterday’s paper exactly why and how executive action is needed to rein in carbon emissions. Worth a full read. [New York Times] America cannot solve a global problem by itself. But as Mr. Obama rightly...
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Unlike many environmental problems, which can be addressed at a local or regional scale, climate change is inherently global in nature: greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions from any source join with historic and contemporary GHG emissions from other...
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Tom Steyer has made waves in climate politics with big money and hard-nosed tactics. Grist chats with him about Keystone, EPA, Obama, and how to win the climate fight....
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Filed under: Investing First-quarter earnings are in and, amid a flurry of financial ups and downs, utilities with significant British assets beat on their bottom lines. With domestic electricity growth in the gutters, is Great Britain the new home of...
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Filed under: Investing Starwood Hotels & Resorts and NRG Energy Introduce an Industry-Leading Alliance to Develop Solar Power at Hotel Properties — Starwood to install nearly 3 megawatts of solar power in partnership with NRG in first phase of...
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The Gray Lady wants the president to hurry up and take executive action to fight global warming, because Congress obviously isn't going to do anything about it....
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Photo via Shutterstock Where there are million of animals, there are millions of tons of waste. In a clever solution to a major waste disposal problem, Australian researchers have found a way to convert 1.4 million tons of Chinese pig excrement into...
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Filed under: Investing PCTEL to Present at the B. Riley & Co. 14 th Annual Investor Conference BLOOMINGDALE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PCTEL, Inc. (NAS: PCTI) , a leader in simplifying wireless and site solutions for private and public networks, announced...
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In Oct. 2011, Portland, Oregon, switched from weekly trash pickups to an every other week system, which is fine for many people who probably just needed to invest in another garbage can or two to hold that additional refuse. Additionally, the city had...
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BlogAntonio Tajani is European Commissioner for Industry, a sector that has been hit hard by the crisis, and one which several member states are hoping will play a central role in their recovery. On the sidelines of the International Journalism Festival...
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A theme that I have been writing and speaking about a lot recently is the obligation of industry CEOs to lead their companies in reducing heat-trapping emissions and accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy – not only because of the essential...
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State-owned IndianOil has successfully developed and commercialized a technology to co-process non-edible vegetable oil in the existing diesel hydrotreating (DHDT) units of a petroleum refinery. This marks the first time in India when Jatropha oil has...
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I'm currently planning to run a DC motor continuously on solar power. So I would like to know which things I should be very careful about for optimum lifespan of the motor. I found the following two, and would like to know what other factors do: Voltage...
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Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC: Proponents of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in the House are pushing forward a measure that would exempt the Canadian pipeline company TransCanada from legal requirements placed on...
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The Texas House and Senate passed Senate Bill 385 in May. If Governor Rick Perry approves the bill, the state will break new ground by developing plans for commercial and industrial property assessed clean energy (PACE) programs. This bill will redesign...
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released its annual report on U.S. ethanol production capacity for 2013. The 193 U.S. ethanol plants have a total capacity of 903,000 barrels a......
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Three dozen Malaysian NGOs on Tuesday denounced the world hydroelectric industry's decision to hold a conference in a Borneo state where dam projects have uprooted forests and native peoples.
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PhysOrg | Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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The Production Tax Credit — the key federal incentive for wind power — is a success story. Since the PTC was first enacted in 1992, the cost of wind power has fallen 90 percent, 75,000 people now work in the wind industry, and wind power is booming....
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Australia is on the cusp of a solar energy revolution. First, a recent study suggests that the country could power its entire national domestic infrastructure using only solar (while slashing the price of home electricity by 70 percent). Now, the University...
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Last summer, drones took to the skies over the Dominican Republic and Haiti. These flying bots weren’t on a military mission, nor were they conducting police surveillance. They belonged to audacious Singularity University Labs startup, Matternet. Matternet...
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