Here’s some more clean energy, climate change, and policy news from the past couple weeks: Clean Energy (In General) & Climate Change Policy Iowa Scientists Warn of Need for Climate Change Action: “A group of scientists in the top U.S. grain-growing state of Iowa said on Monday that this … [continued]
Here are some truly excellent comments from Al Gore and Van Jones about wind energy and jobs in the US. A must watch: Some of my favorite lines: “… the irony is Ohio is one of the highest states in terms of wind production jobs, and John Boehner, ‘Hello, … [continued]
On Friday, Trends Research and Innovation Company psfk, in partnership with The Climate Reality Project announced the ten finalists of “Gaming for Good”. Contestants were invited to develop games which help people improve their environmental impact, taking inspiration from psfk’s recent report; The Future of Gaming. The goal of The Climate Reality Project is global acceptance of the realities of climate change.
But a waste-to-energy resource that many are missing is the anaerobic digestion of mixed organic waste, such as food and yard waste, a technology that was introduce in Europe as far back as the 1930s. What are we missing here in the United States? This calls for putting some numbers to work.
German rooftops about this size accounted for over 1.8 GW of solar that was installed there last year. German solar power has been very rapidly expanding, because it has generous Feed-in Tariffs that pay solar owners to make power for the grid. This is a sensible policy, as the prospect … [continued]
Thanks to a Feed-in Tariff program it began in 2007 that resulted in a fivefold jump in installs, individual Italians are now installing solar on buildings at the astounding rate of 250 MW, or the size of a typical power station, every two months, in a seeming vindication of a … [continued]
Yesterday the California legislature just raised the allowable limit on rooftop power from 2.5% of our grid to 5%, because we were in danger of exceeding the 2.5% – within a matter of months. The net-metering limit was about to be breached. [social_buttons] Net metering is like roll-over minutes on … [continued]
Probably the biggest news piece this week was Obama’s State of the Union address. David Roberts of grist seemed to hate it. Whereas often like-minded and equally critical Joe Romm of Climate Progress actually seemed to love it. Dan Harding of CalFinder had mixed reactions, first “feeling passion stir … [continued]
A new tool in Google Earth shows you the “effect” of climate change in your area. Using Google Earth, you can look at climate effects under three different scenarios — 1) Confronting Climate Change — “with Al Gore”, 2) IPCC High Emissions Scenario, and 3) IPCC Low Emissions Scenario. Other … [continued]
