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When we first switched from horses to horsepower at the turn of the 20th century, the move was hailed as one of modernity, cleanliness and efficiency. After a century during which we’ve discovered that the “auto mobile” brought with it a far more dangerous environmental assault than horse droppings, now more than 60 French towns [...]
Whether it was coincidence or an attack timed to coincide with the first day of National Energy Awareness Month, the October 1 torching of a fuel convoy for NATO and U.S. forces in Pakistan is a dramatic illustration of the point that U.S. military officials have been trying to drum home to us civilians: continued [...]
American Electric Power, an Ohio based utility that describes itself as “the nation’s largest consumer of coal,” has abruptly quit the Ohio Chamber of Commerce over the Chamber’s endorsement of Republican candidate for governor John Kasich. Although AEP stated that it made the move only because the Chamber broke its 117-year tradition of neutrality in [...]
The new attack by the oil industry on clean energy in California using the Prop 23 ballot initiative doesn’t have only California’s nascent green energy industry on tenterhooks. Nervous wind developers as far away as Montana are now holding off on reserving transmission space, till they see how much renewable energy California will need to [...]
India’s ministry of New and Renewable Energy is working on a proposal to start several diploma and technical training courses in renewable energy specifically in solar energy systems. The ministry feels that there would be tremendous demand for skilled technicians as several project developers would launch their solar energy plants and other renewable energy power [...]
The Green Business Blog Carnival comes to Cleantechnica! Following up on Green Business Blog Carnival post #16, a fun summary of some green business news on Viv Biz Club, here’s the next edition of the Carnival for your reading pleasure. It’s the middle of the West Coast Green Conference today, where “a stellar assembly of leaders [...]
Bioengineered silkworms may help free the world from its dependence on petrochemicals, by providing a greener way to produce fabrics that are as strong as spider silk. A research team has successfully altered silkworms to produce a substance that has the distinct physical characteristics of spider silk, namely its extraordinarily high tensile strength and elasticity. [...]
