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Making Clean Energy A Personal, Political Priority: Building Online Outreach Centers
If you find the following useful, please spread the word to your various networks and contacts! An overwhelming majority of scientists agree that climate change is accelerating into an ever larger man-made problem, and that one of major solution avenues … Continue reading
Big US Corporations Reducing Emissions, Saving Money
While Congress is paralyzed on federal climate legislation, many U.S. business are stepping up to reduce emissions, reports Maria Gallucci at Inside Climate News. A number of leading U.S. corporations are squeezing big reductions of climate-changing emissions from their operations … Continue reading
Climate Change Got You Down? Take the Clean Energy Voting Pledge
“Whew, pass me another beer, bro. Man, this heat… and didja hear that food prices are going up soon, thanks to all that drought? What? You say there’s something I can do about it?” Yeah, Wilber, there is. It’s voting … Continue reading
Getting Into Hot Water to Save Energy
About 350 billion kilowatt hours of wastewater energy are flushed down drains annually, says the US Department of Energy. King County in Washington State hopes to harness that wasted heat and use it in buildings, reports Ashley Ahearn at Living … Continue reading
Clean Energy Grew From a Model Democracy – Denmark
Western democracies consider themselves to be efficient, farsighted and just, prime examples of “good governance.” But in recent years, the euro and debt crises, along with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, have shattered faith in the reliability of Western institutions. … Continue reading
Green Group Takes Aim at Congressional Climate Change Deniers
The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is launching a new $1.5 million program aimed at defeating five climate change deniers, known as the Flat Earth Five, in the House of Representatives this election cycle. Reps. Ann Marie Buerkle,Dan Benishek, Dan … Continue reading
Turbine Harvests Tidal Energy of the Bay of Fundy
Looking somewhat like a horizontal eggbeater, a tidal turbine generator with helical blades has begun harvesting the powerful tides of the Bay of Fundy, reports Jess Bidgood at the New York Times. The bay has some of the world’s highest … Continue reading
Fossil Fuels Get Six Times That of US Clean Energy Subsidies – Graphic
From GOOD magazine and the DeepLocal graphics company now comes a handy chart showing how much more fossil fuels and even ethanol corn is getting in US subsidies than clean renewable energy, such as wind and solar, reports Jeff St. … Continue reading
Republican Mitt Romney Favors Suppressing Clean Energy
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney wants to increase taxes on wind companies steeply enough so that it would be a major league job killer, reports Carl Pope at the huffingtonpost. Romney explained that he wanted to“create a level playing field on … Continue reading
Power In a Pipe – A New Hydro System
Imagine producing cheap hydropower without having to build a dam or threaten migrating salmon. Portland startup LucidEnergy has developed a way to do it inside a water pipe, reports Steve Law at the Portland Tribune. Lucid has developed a simple … Continue reading
