March 16th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Yesterday the Mayor of Los Angeles unveiled a proposal for a Carbon Reduction Surcharge to raise an estimated $170 million [&hellip
March 2nd, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Yesterday Attorney General Jerry Brown announced a completely new kind of renewable energy legislation, introduced by State Assembly member Nancy [&hellip
February 17th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
FERC is close to approving the Tres Amigas high-voltage interconnection hub project in Clovis, New Mexico, designed to be the [&hellip
February 12th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
An attempt to overthrow California’s progressive climate bill AB32 has been slowed down by Attorney General Jerry Brown, the Democratic [&hellip
February 6th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
In the absence of such legislation "The Invisible Hand" has tended to find that utilities should just continue to source their electricity from traditional sources, with the result that states that do not have an RES have the unhealthiest electricity in the nation
January 20th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Whenever plants are subjected to extreme stress, such as very high or low temperatures, they do not flower and grow because they divert their food to their embryo. "Their instinct is to protect the next generation," said Wigge. Plants are better adapted to survive, than people are, in that respect. But then they have had a million or so more years to learn that clever trick. They might outlive us
January 20th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Being able to take advantage of solar incentives for could be a huge boon to community groups of all kinds, from churches to schools to gardening clubs and could be a great model to other states where urban dwellers lack rooftops of their own
January 19th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Not only do off-shore wind turbines not harm marine life, but they actively encourage more of it, a very encouraging study has just concluded, after closely following the effects of the off-shore wind farms being built off the European coast
January 18th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
First Solar's utility-scale PV plant has now been up and running, in Blythe, California, for its first full month. Once it got a go-ahead in the summer It only took three months to build
January 18th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
In just the first ten days, Wyoming voters used up their share in the funds from The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act designed to end dependence on dirty energy. They voted with their feet against the Senators they sent to vote for dirty energy
January 17th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
The people who live in Detroit could really use some good news after taking the hardest landing as the Age [&hellip
January 16th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Unlike Venice, which was built in the middle ages, modern cities have key electrical infrastructure at ground level and below, making it almost impossible to inhabit a modern city with skyscrapers submerged up to the first or second floor
January 10th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Private solar installations are really taking off nationwide. In just two years, (about the same length of time it takes to get a pair of 250 MW solar power plants approved in California, for example), homeowners and businesses have added that much power to the Californian grid, just from individual rooftops throughout the state
January 6th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
After the EU signed Kyoto, requiring it to reduce carbon emissions 8% below 1990 levels by 2012, many products and design changed there, diverging from US standards. Cars, for example, became smaller, lighter; and more fuel efficient. Even US automakers not known for efficiency make 62 MPG cars for Europe. Germany and Spain introduced Feed-in Tariffs that paid homeowners to make solar power on their roofs. But most interestingly, for Americans now considering energy efficient retrofits with a new "Cash for Caulkers" program being considered, a whole new industry was created by the need to supply new energy efficient building innovations. Energy efficient glass
January 6th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
NSW electricity costs 19 cents, and they will pay 60 cents: three to one. That is why this is poised for the same kind of rocketing success that Germany saw, and perhaps even more, as Australia is blessed with great insolation
January 4th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Here's a charming and sustainable way to keep the grass trimmed beneath solar arrays. Sheep nibble the grass down to a manageable level. This relatively small North Carolina installation is kept trim without fossil-fuels in what is increasingly becoming a “best practice” in landscaping circles - by sheep
January 4th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
his month Europe's first electricity super-grid dedicated to renewable energy will become a political reality, as part of Europe's plan to meet its target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20% below 1990 levels by
January 3rd, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
The trial run for "Cash for Caulkers" is a big hit. Another of the the green-jobs-and-carbon-footprint-reduction projects funded by the Obama Administration Recovery Act funds has really caught on big time. The first is Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing to make solar essentially free (Joe Biden to Solar Power the USA With PACE Berkeley First Municipal Financing) with just one county's result: Rooftop Solar = 4% of Sonoma County's Power
January 3rd, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
The Obama administration is betting its new Home Star "Cash for Caulkers" program that it’s the one with the greenest bang for the buck. They'll pay you up to half the cost to retrofit that gas-guzzling house of yours for up to $4,000 and in the process put a quarter of a million unemployed construction workers back to work lowering your energy costs and carbon footprint
January 2nd, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
China has certainly made some startlingly bold and draconian moves into a sustainable new future. You might say that their One Child policy did more to slow future climate change than anything that any other nation has tried. That's one example of their outside-the-box thinking about the future
