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Republicans describe Obamas energy plan as "Un-American"

Posted by Jentyl on Tuesday, 25 June 2013 in General Environment

Leading Republicans were using phrases like “anti-American” and “war on American energy” to describe President Obama’s new plan to combat climate change, escalating the rhetoric even before the President’s Georgetown University speech outlining his program. “President Obama’s anti-American energy p...

the winners in clean tech

Posted by EarthDude on Wednesday, 10 April 2013 in Clean Technology

Two Midwest startups in the clean-tech sector walked away with $100,000 apiece in a one-day fast-pitch event before an audience and a panel of judges. Four others were awarded cash prices too. LuminAID, a Chicago-based startup that developed a low-cost, solar-powered inflatable lighting device, won...

Financing of Emerging New-Energy

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 29 March 2013 in Clean Technology

Temporary but strategic financing of emerging new-energy technologies is an absolute necessity. If we want clean-energy alternatives, if we want energy diversity, we need to pry open toeholds for their emergence and scale-up. Why is this? The reason is that the U.S. energy market is riven with barr...

Replacing Light Bulbs to Feed Poor Families

Posted by katysai on Monday, 25 February 2013 in Green Products/Services

In August 2012, Approximately 25,000 bulbs have already been distributed by Feeding America West Michigan, while the remaining 75,000 bulbs will be distributed out of the group’s Comstock Park and Cadillac warehouses beginning Tuesday, Feb. 26. Each family will receive a package of two CFLs, a...

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The Growth of Efficient Buildings

Posted by Aaron on Monday, 25 February 2013 in Green Design

The area of building efficiency affords tremendous opportunities for both economic growth and reduced environmental impacts. Buildings are the single largest emitters of greenhouse gases. According to a UNEP study titled “Towards a Green Economy,” homes and businesses are responsible for 40 percent ...

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Go Green City - 2013 Challenge

Posted by Talex on Wednesday, 23 January 2013 in Sustainable Development

Go Green in the City 2013 Challenge Calling all business and engineering students! It’s time to team up for the annual Go Green in the City challenge. Sponsored by Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, Go Green in the City is an international case challenge f...

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Wind Energy A Success in 2012

Posted by acox on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 in Wind

U.S. companies built record 13.2 gigawatts worth of new wind power capacity in the country in 2012, according to a study released by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. A large factor in the construction record is that companies rushed to complete projects before production tax credits for wind proj...

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The Missing Link In Photosynthesis

Posted by acox on Saturday, 05 January 2013 in Clean Technology

Image Credit: Chyrko Olena / Shutterstock For almost three decades, scientists have tried to identify a particular enzyme involved in regulating electron transport during photosynthesis. Now, a research team from Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (LMU) has found the missing link, which turns out to be...

Why Obama's Win Won't Help Renewable Energy

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 14 November 2012 in Wind

Barack Obama's re-election may have seemed like a sure win for solar and wind power, given the President's history of supporting green energy. But the optimism quickly darkened in the aftermath. In the days following the election, renewable energy stocks fell, along with the broader market. The fu...

Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island - Project RFP

Posted by Aaron on Wednesday, 14 November 2012 in Clean Technology

Reznick Think Energy has an exciting opportunity for developers, engineers, EPCs and financiers interested in working on high profile renewable energy projects. We are working with Carbon War Room to help Necker Island, the Caribbean island owned by Sir Richard Branson, to transition away from fossi...

No lack of wind for energy, computer model shows

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 12 September 2012 in Wind

If the world shifts to clean energy, wind-generated electricity will play a big role—and there is more than enough wind for that, according to new research. Researchers developed the most sophisticated weather model available to show that not only is there plenty of wind over land and near to shore ...

End for fossil fuels

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 21 August 2012 in Fossil Fuels

by Ben Cubby of brisbanetimes.com.au THIS year is likely to be seen by future historians as the ''beginning of the clean-energy era'', when the world turned decisively towards renewable energy, according to the chief of Australia's climate commission, Tim Flannery. Professor Flannery will try to s...

Clean energy, dirty business

Posted by Aaron on Sunday, 26 February 2012 in Earth Violators

The fact is that 10 to 12 per cent of the primary energy supply today comes from renewable sources (not counting hydroelectric energy). But new renewables – technologies of the future – still make up only one or two per cent of this supply. The rest comes from biomass systems of the poor, ...

Bold new approach to wind 'farm' design may provide efficiency gains

Posted by Aaron on Monday, 18 July 2011 in Wind

Conventional wisdom suggests that because we're approaching the theoretical limit on individual wind turbine efficiency, wind energy is now a mature technology. But California Institute of Technology researchers revisited some of the fundamental assumptions that guided the wind industry for the past...

The Emerging Market for Small Renewables in California

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 11 May 2011 in Sustainable Development

The long battle between public and private power is flaring up again. California is the hot spot because the state legislature has lined up on the side of Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), a form of public power lite in which communities choose power sources but distribution is left to t...

Majority Leader Reid Introduces Plan to Prevent Future Oil Spills

Posted by davebishop on Wednesday, 28 July 2010 in Oil Spill

Some positive news from the oil spill. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) today introduced a Clean Energy jobs and Oil Spill Accountability Plan. The following is a statement by Sarah Chasis, Director of the Oceans Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council: “The BP disaster in the Gulf is a sober...