The fourth anniversary of the multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi no. 1 power plant passed in relative quiet, but events there have hardly become less troubling. The good news first: TEPCO and its contractors have now completed the move of all spent and fresh fuel from the high and … [continued]
The International Renewable Energy Agency has just released an exciting tool for renewable energy entrepreneurs, urban planners, and researchers: Project Navigator. It should greatly increase the number of successful renewable power projects. The program should also decrease the number of confidence-busting failures, although these have become fewer and fewer as renewable … [continued]
The Alliance to Save Energy — a coalition of prominent business, government, environmental, and consumer leaders — has scored big at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit with CarbonCount™, an exciting new system for scoring the carbon impacts of green bonds. This revolutionary financial innovation has the potential to steer large quantities … [continued]
Just two hours ago, California Governor Jerry Brown raised the bar for the rest of the US, Mexico, and yet-uncommitted Canada on limiting climate change. Brown issued an executive order to reduce California GHGs by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. Over four terms as governor, Brown has occupied the forefront of … [continued]
The Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association, a group of industry companies and stakeholders, recently issued a strategy document outlining how Japan solar could reach 100GW of installed PV generation capacity by 2030. “PV Outlook 2030–Aiming for a Sure Path to a Smart Country” updates “PV Outlook 2030,” last published by JPEA in … [continued]
Enlightenment visits Rome today and tomorrow. At least, that’s how the Heartland Institute bills it. This week we’ll see a match between the Voices of Climate Change Denial and Pope Francis, spiritual leader of 1.2 billion Catholics and a big guy in a white hat to many in the rest … [continued]
Those who take the Wall Street Journal for gospel miss a lot of what’s going on with US energy, says Denise Robbins of Media Matters for America. Too bad they probably won’t get it if they stick to that source and ignore all the others. The Journal published an editorial two weeks ago that … [continued]
The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources has just warned people living in Dukeville, North Carolina, and a local church, not to drink or cook with their well water. Toxic heavy metals have contaminated it, as reported by the Associated Press. Each well location is within a quarter … [continued]
The leader of the most economically developed nation in the world told fellow Americans on this cloudy, muggy south Florida afternoon that “climate change cannot be edited out of the conversation,” as some would like it to be. He spoke from the imperiled Everglades wetlands about the way that climate change threatens … [continued]
The past week or so has brought some unequivocally good news about Canada’s climate change preparations, instead of the usual indifference-to-bluster coming out of Ottawa. Canada has enormous potential for renewable energy, as shown below, but it persists in a damaging and expensive shorter-term chase after petroleum resources. The nation to … [continued]
