10 reasons why you should be living life on two wheels. We believe in the power of two wheels, which is why we’re celebrating National Bike to Work Day. Even for those working at home, it’s an excuse to get out and ride. Fresh air, low carbon footprint,...
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Environmentalists are focused on natural gas, but a bigger carbon disaster may be brewing in the Pacific Northwest
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Three student housing communities will be powered with solar power thanks to an agreement between Campus Crest Communities, a developer of student housing, and SolarCity, a provider of alternative energy. The student communities are located in Greeley...
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Can the Energy Tower slated for US Mexico border create clean power and mitigate climate change? If American put Man on the moon, why not, argues Brian. Professor Dan Zaslavsky and Dr. Rami Guetta from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology are...
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WOW! More than 3,000 of you submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency regarding their proposed carbon regulation. Thank you for your heartfelt letters and remarks in support of this rule -- read some of them below! Why are people supporting...
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By David Fry (ETF Digest): There are currently less than 20 ETFs oriented to the alternative energy sector. Many are struggling to gain assets under management (AUM) and performance success. Some may not succeed as new technologies come and go. Previously,...
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If only the climate change deniers could read and comprehend. Or care. The last 60 years have been the hottest in Australasia for a millennium and cannot be explained by natural causes, according to a new report by scientists that supports the case for...
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Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica: Are the millions of dollars in anticipated revenue from charging California’s largest polluters for their carbon emissions under the state’s cap-and-trade...
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The recent U.S. residential housing and mortgage market collapse gave securitization a bad name, but the practice of aggregating and dicing up residential solar PV system leases and commercial solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) is bound to play a...
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By Twilight Greenaway When Thomas Keller, the iconic chef at The French Laundry, made a point to privilege flavor over sustainability in the New York Times recently, he did us all a disservice....
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Grist | Friday, May 18, 2012
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An agency official says the federal government lacks the financing to cover a cleanup of the tsunami debris washing up in Alaska and other states....
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Apple Inc. has received approval to build two solar power installations at its main data center in North Carolina, allowing the technology giant to run the center entirely with renewable energy by next year. The two solar farms, which will cover 250...
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Apple has announced that its Maiden, NC data center will be fully powered by renewables and that its solar power installation there will now be twice as big as first planned....
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China says the US is "deliberately provoking trade friction in the clean energy sector." The US says Chinese exporters were dumping cut-price solar panels in the US market....
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A collection of green news from the past week.. A new survey released by the Civil Society Institute shows that 77 percent of the American public are now more supportive of cleaner, renewable energy sources such as wind and solar than they were a year...
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China will not implode. Its road to superpower status will be bumpy, even rocky in parts, but the fundamentals of sustained macroeconomic expansion are in place and, for the large part, enduring. Here are 10 popular misconceptions about China.
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EU warns that airlines from China and India, the last two holdouts refusing to submit their airlines’ carbon emissions data, could face penalties by mid-June.
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In a world where we’re arguably too connected, the MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory is striving to reinvent and design new connections between people, information and places. When Director Federico Casalegno first created the Lab in 2005, he said “the...
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Cooking's a killer activity in the developing world: millions die from smoke inhalation, and forests are stripped bare as billions gather wood for their stoves (or for making charcoal for cooking). Take a look at five organizations working to address...
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One of the world’s largest corporations is about to make a huge swing toward going green. Just over a month remains for software giant Microsoft to meet its goal of becoming carbon neutral by July 1. Earlier this month, CEO Kevin Turner posted on the...
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Some more top energy efficiency news from around the internet: Lighting Science Group has completed the first phase of a relighting project in Washington, D.C. that will “save the city tens of thousands of dollars each year in energy costs” (and...
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The aptly-named “RoBoat” has been taking home the World Robotic Sailing Championship (WRSC) crown for three years, but this July the team behind the world’s winningest autonomous watercraft will attempt to snag another record for the longest robotic...
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I’m almost as obsessed with compost as I am with food. Well, they are related, right? Living out here has taught our family how to conserve resources – like many non-city folk, we have our own well (and no, we don’t have to churn buckets down a...
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If you want to get Apple to do something, try dressing up as a giant iPhone. It's worked for Greenpeace, whose campaign against the company's reliance on 'dirty power' has succeeded. read more...
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People think that you can just move to Georgia because there's wires and trains and planes.
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Craig Venter has done some amazing things. Follow the link to read the Wired interview in full, and you will see an abbreviated bio for the disruptive scientist. In the excerpts from the interview below, Venter attempts to describe what will be required...
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Here’s the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes 11 items. UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said that country delegates who agreed on the Durban Platform for...
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I am so full of excitement right now I could burst. I just received the first case of my new book: Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too, and I feel like a proud mama right now. A few nights ago, I had a dream that the...
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I’ve seen a lot of these polls regarding whether or not people will pay more for clean energy. I’ve never seen one that seemed to indicate they wouldn’t. In one of the latest, a national poll conducted by Yale and Harvard researchers, it was...
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For companies that participated in the Dept of Commerce's investigation the preliminary tariffs are roughly 31%, and much higher for those that didn't....
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Last February, Apple came clean about its efforts to clean up the environment, detailing intentions to make its Maiden, NC data facility a greener place. That site, already home to one solar farm, is now set to host a second 20 megawatt photovoltaic...
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Scientists and engineers in the U.S. Army are working to develop mobile energy solutions that capture renewable power from the sun and wind. Photo: cobalt123 Reported on Clean Technica Army Scientists Developing Deployable Renewable Equipment (via Clean...
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From tree house villages in Costa Rica to yoga communes in Hawaii, these 10 intentional communities are havens of peace, creativity and sustainability. Imagine waking up to the sound of bells from a temple to share in a morning yoga ritual overlooking...
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Noted writer Neal Stephenson has argued that contemporary science fiction is too focused on nihilism and apocalyptic scenarios. The current crop of such works, such as the Walking Dead, are compared rather unfavorably to the hopeful view of the...
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A123 Systems will supply an 11MW Grid Battery System (GBS) to Sempra Generation for the Auwahi Wind project in Maui, Hawaii. The advanced energy storage solution is designed to smooth variable wind power generation, which is expected to help maintain......
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When bald eagles confront danger, most normal Americans would leap to preserve, protect and defend America's national symbol. But Team Obama's response is different: It wants to give wind-power companies long-term permits to butcher bald eagles on the...
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The winter months are some of the busiest travel times of the year, but they're also the most likely time for an airplane to be delayed. The culprit? Icy runways. Wouldn't it be nice and efficient if we could take some of the excess summer heat, save...
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BEIJING - China has blasted a US decision to slap hefty anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar cell makers as 'protectionist' and warns that the move might hurt efforts to promote clean energy....
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There’s wind in that thar sky ... That’s the sort of thing that – conceivably – might be wistfully said by someone who is tasked with looking for locations in which to locate wind turbines. Their job could soon be getting a little easier, however,...
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The 2012 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report warns that our way of life is way beyond the Earth’s capability to restore itself, that is, it is unsustainable. It says in order to have a future, we need to reduce waste, introduce smarter water management...
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None of three Apple’s data centers — including an existing facility in California, one in North Carolina, and one being built in Prineville, Oregon — will use power produced by coal, Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said in an interview....
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Latching onto a Congressional Research Service report commissioned by Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), Fox News suggested today that government investments in clean energy hurt our military. But experts agree that investments in clean energy technology and...
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Some more top wind energy news from around the internet: Western Wind Energy Corp. is acquiring a whopping 4,000 MW of wind energy projects from Champlin/GEI Wind Holdings. “Cost of the acquisition is $20 Million US, payable by the issuance...
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Some more solar energy news from around the net to wrap up the week: SolarCity & Clean Currents have teamed up to offer fixed-price Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) for solar power with as little as $0 down and long-term electricity discounts/savings....
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Is there a "dislike" button yet?
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Earlier today on Fox News, Jonah commented on the president’s proposal to turn unicorn poop into renewable energy....
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Nevada's Stillwater geothermal plant has added a solar array to become the world's first hybrid solar-geothermal plant. Enel Green Power North America installed more than 89,000 solar panels with a capacity of 26 MW to the site. The plant's combined...
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EcoGeek | Friday, May 18, 2012
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At this event on May 24, 2012 from 6 – 9 p.m. at Phipps Conservatory, attendees will see displays of the hottest new technology for renewable energy and hear from the real live green energy entrepreneurs who will be discussing how the average yinzer...
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Residents and businesses in Michigan are wrestling with the highest electric rates in the region — and with the best way to fix that situation. As is often the case in Michigan, a more competitive market versus a monopoly market is central to the debate,...
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TXU Energy in Texas is offering the first free energy rates in the nation, between 10 PM and 6 AM. Its daytime rates are 11 cents. Wind power tends to be greatest in the wee hours. Texas wind power sometimes has to be curtailed or wasted because there’s...
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