Published on December 10th, 2010 | by Tina Casey
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The northernmost defense installation of the U.S., Thule Air Base, is getting an energy efficiency upgrade that shines a light on the potential for making a significant reduction in carbon emissions without waiting for futuristic new [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 9th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
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MiaSolé, in the vanguard of California’s new thin film solar manufacturing start ups, has just made an efficiency advance that gets thin film back into competition with traditional solar. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has independently [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 9th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
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Republicans are demanding that President Obama take the extension of renewable tax credits off the table in the deal they negotiated in return for bonus tax cuts for the rich, according to Politico. But Democrats are [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 9th, 2010 | by Tina Casey
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Staten Island Ferry, move over: there’s a new ferry coming to town, and it’s fully loaded with sustainable energy features. The new 1400-horsepower Hornblower Hybrid Ferry will run on hydrogen fuel cells, solar panels, and wind [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 9th, 2010 | by Guest Contributor
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by Rob Butler There’s not much work coming in at the moment. I’m self-employed and I don’t have much in the way of savings. There is a lot of anxiety around about finances – if you [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 9th, 2010 | by Zachary Shahan
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A new report out from Mexico’s energy department, SENER, delves deeply into the nation’s vast solar energy potential, which is well above that of current solar energy leaders Germany and Spain. The report, Solar Energy Sector has [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 8th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
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The US would have the most to gain percentage-wise from its share of an estimated $2.3 trillion clean energy economy by 2020, a new Pew report finds, if it adopted aggressive clean energy policies such as [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 8th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
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Image: GOP organizer Rush Limbaugh, who stands to make $2.6 million a year from the Republican tax bill. This week, Republican Senator George LeMieux joined Democrats in a letter to Senate leaders asking that the Recovery [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 8th, 2010 | by Mridul Chadha
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During the recent China-US Renewable Energy Investment Forum, a senior official of China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) advised the local renewable energy firms to think global and increase their investments in the American renewable energy sector. [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 8th, 2010 | by Zachary Shahan
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If you haven’t heard about this project yet, it is a HUGE, renewable energy project with a ton of cool features. The Sahara Solar Breeder Project is its name, though it has also been referred to [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 7th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
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Despite powerful opposition from the fossil fuel industry in court, a non-profit environmental organization, New Energy Economy, has succeeded in getting New Mexico to adopt a clean energy plan designed to reduce carbon emissions 25% below [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 7th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
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Many of you have contacted me to ask if the renewable energy provisions of The Recovery Act – like the Section 1603 cash grants for solar – are being extended past Dec 31st in the now [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 7th, 2010 | by Tina Casey
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Teams of researchers in Venezuela and Argentina are on the verge of elevating the lowly earthworm to rockstar status when it comes to cleaning up hazardous materials. They are studying the ability of earthworms to remediate [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 7th, 2010 | by Tina Casey
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A mere month ago, the San Antonio Water System in Texas announced that it had become the first ever U.S. municipal wastewater treatment plant to sell renewable methane biogas through a commercial natural gas pipe line. [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 6th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
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As international negotiators meet once more in the ongoing attempt to get international agreement to cut greenhouse gases to safe levels, one idea being presented at the climate talks at Cancun is an international Global – Renewable [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 6th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
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One problem besetting climate negotiations, both at Copenhagen and at Cancun, is a lack of trust. This is because there has been no consistent metric by which to measure progress globally. Each nation provides their own [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 6th, 2010 | by Mridul Chadha
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Mount Diablo Unified School District has awarded a 30-year contract to SunPower to execute America’s largest school district solar power system. SunPower is responsible for the design, installation and maintenance of the solar power systems which [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 6th, 2010 | by Zachary Shahan
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Here’s a good, simple question for you, “Would you pay $37 to receive $161?” As the Michigan League of Conservation Voters (LCV) points out, “That’s the question facing Michigan, multiplied by a million, with respect to [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 5th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
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I am so angry this weekend that it is hard to write about clean energy news. US energy policy is held hostage once again by a GOP refusal to allow a fair up or down vote [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 4th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
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On the same day that Senate Republicans filibustered a vote for renewable energy in the USA, by contrast – China has just published an astoundingly ambitious and exciting renewable energy plan for the next ten years. [&hellip... Read More →
