Google Earth Shows Climate Change Effects

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A new tool in Google Earth shows you the “effect” of climate change in your area. Using Google Earth, you can look at climate effects under three different scenarios — 1) Confronting Climate Change — “with Al Gore”, 2) IPCC High Emissions Scenario, and 3) IPCC Low Emissions Scenario. Other new tools let you examine [...]

Green Economy = More Jobs

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A new report released today says that if we shift our economy — to a greener, low-carbon economy — we will have more jobs, not fewer. Earlier this week, Tony Blair (former prime minister of the UK) and the Climate Group reported that if we worked to avoid climate change we’d create 10 million new [...]

Editor's Note: CleanTechnica Offers to Host Meg Whitman / Gavin Newsom Debate

In response to the contention caused by Meg Whitman’s OP-Ed on rescinding AB32 climate-change legislation, and the pointed response by Mayor Gavin Newsom, CleanTechnica.com is formally offering to host a discussion between the two gubernatorial candidates.

REALLY, MEG? Suspending Climate-Change Legislation AB32 is Backwards Thinking

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Meg Whitman penned an op-ed last week stating she’d suspend California’s landmark climate-change legislation, AB32, on her first day if elected governor. This is backwards thinking, and I disagree. Experts estimate that the four largest clean-energy industries (solar, wind, biofuels, and fuel-cell) will have combined annual revenues of $255 billion by the middle of the [...]

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No Off-Shore Wind NIMBYism, Gigantic Potential for Mid-Atlantic States

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An amazingly high percentage of people who live down the Mid-Atlantic Seaboard from New York to Virginia want wind turbines off their coast. Even if they can be seen from the shoreline, 67% support off-shore wind power, according to a new poll of coastal residents of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia . [...]

International Battery of Allentown, PA Brings Green Power to NASA

International Battery brings its green lithium battery manufacturing process to the NASA space shuttle program.

With the help of hometown lithium-ion battery manufacturer International Battery, Allentown PA is on the verge of becoming the latest rust belt refugee to dip its toes into the new green economy.  International Battery has just won a contract with NASA to build a prototype battery strong enough to provide backup power to support the [...]

Top Technology Companies are Green and Clean on Newsweek's Green Rankings

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Not all clean tech companies need to produce more environmentally friendly products in order to make a difference; some are leaders in the industry because quite simply, they change their procedures in order to ensure that their practices reduce their carbon footprint. In this week’s Newsweek “Green Rankings” were released, and many of those higher [...]

New "Wave Energy" Fund in UK

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A new energy fund in the UK is looking to improve wave and tidal energy technologies and help put them into use. The new Marine Renewables Proving Fund contains about $36 million worth of new grants.