Our good friends, the solar and crowdfunding leaders at Mosaic, recently published an infographic on the Obama Administration’s impact on US cleantech since coming into the White House in January 2009. As you can see above, some of the accomplishments and targets include: Putting $90 billion towards cleantech initiatives, thanks to … [continued]
Obama spent a long time (rightfully so) setting the stage in his climate and energy speech by discussing the threats of global warming and climate change. But, on a hot and sunny summer day in DC, Obama also trumpeted a strong plan to use more clean energy. Here were 10 … [continued]
Dr Joe Romm is a leading voice on climate and energy policy and politics issues. As his Climate Progress bio notes, under President Bill Clinton, Dr Romm was “acting assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy in 1997, where he oversaw $1 billion in R&D, demonstration, and … [continued]
The much-anticipated President Obama climate change speech on Tuesday at Georgetown University easily topped 6,000 words, but one of them really stuck out for us: Keystone. That’s because, of all the disastrous fossil fuel projects that have clouded the American landscape with increasing regularity, the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is … [continued]
This article first appeared on The Institute for Local Self-Reliance website When President Obama unveils his climate policy proposal in the coming days, he should focus on the one key element of successful climate and energy policy. It’s not about utilities or incentives or numbers, it’s about ownership. Climate-protecting energy … [continued]
With ThinkBlue, the world’s third largest automaker is raising the stakes in its sustainability drive, including allocating $500 million-$600 million for renewable energy investments. VW management recently hosted an energy management workshop and site tour of its green manufacturing facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee. CleanTechnica was there.
Here’s another excellent repost from Shrink That Footprint: By Lindsay Wilson The world reached a grim milestone recently, with atmospheric concentrations at the historic Mauna Loa observatory hitting the 400 parts per million mark due to ever increasing global carbon emissions. While this event rightly got the media coverage it deserved, rarely … [continued]
Update: Some very useful additional factors have been noted by commenters below. Have a look! One of the most common myths I see repeated in the comments here on CleanTechnica — perhaps the most common — is the myth that electric cars aren’t greener. That’s pure BS. As numerous studies … [continued]
More than 50 US mayors and county elected officials have launched the Resilient Communities for America campaign by committing to build stronger communities that can meet their own energy needs and withstand the relentless onslaught of heat waves, floods, droughts, severe storms, and wildfires.
Planetsolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat, arrived safely in New York on June 17, 2013. She has been transformed into a scientific platform as part of the “PlanetSolar DeepWater” expedition, and has joined by a team of researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), led by Professor Martin Beniston, climatologist and … [continued]
