Originally published on the ECOreport. Though more than 50% of the new electrical installations during the first quarter of 2014 were solar, it is nothing to brag about. The numbers are down across the board. Even the number of solar projects is down, compared to last year. Fossil fuels were especially hard … [continued]
With gas prices in the US once again on the rise, the potential savings that can be seen by switching from driving to public transportation are also once again on the rise — based on the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) most recent Transit Savings Report. The April report — … [continued]
One of our readers recently passed along a couple of very interesting charts about nuclear energy as well as the nuclear energy report from which they came. The report, World Nuclear Report 2013, is well worth a more careful look, but for those who just love some interesting charts, here … [continued]
Reviewing Environment California’s Report: “Shining Cities: At the Forefront of America’s Solar Energy Revolution” Originally published in the ECOreport. America’s solar capacity has tripled during the past two years. Rooftop solar has been in the van of this development. Environment California’s new report — “Shining Cities: At the Forefront of America’s Solar … [continued]
Originally published on the ECOreport. I have finally seen a wind energy project that works and of course it would be in Denmark! My apologies, in advance, to all the people who are going to protest. I find Jim Wiegand’s research, on how wind turbines are wreaking far more raptor casualties … [continued]
As we noted a couple weeks ago in a guest post from John Perlin, author of Let It Shine: The 6000-Year Story of Solar Energy, we’re coming up on the 60th birthday of the solar cell. “On April 25, 1954, scientists at Bell Laboratories demonstrated the most significant breakthrough in the history … [continued]
One of the world’s leading solar company CEOs, Arno Harris of Recurrent Energy (a US arm of Sharp), has backed up Warren Buffet and said that much of the hype over solar’s threat to utilities is an exaggeration. “You can’t just take on the utilities and destroy them,” Harris, who … [continued]
Originally published on Green Living Ideas. Former Vice President Al Gore delivered a powerful address to a packed house at the Stan Sheriff Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa this week. Environmentally, Gore is most famous, perhaps, for his 2006 speaking tour and subsequent documentary called An Inconvenient Truth, … [continued]
Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) has reported that clean energy investment rallied 10% in the first quarter of 2014 (Q1’14) compared to the same period a year earlier, reaching a total of $47.7 billion. Earlier this month that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released the seventh edition of its Global … [continued]
Tired of cutting out coupons from the newspaper or printing from websites to save money at the supermarket? Tired of seeing paper going to waste in the name of saving money? One game-changing smart phone app could offer an answer. Mobeam announced earlier this week that the state-of-the-art Samsung Galaxy … [continued]
