Letter from Tällberg: 350? Well, Poo
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffThe former President of Costa Rica, Jose Maria Figueres, has just congratulated another Latin American leader (a government minister in Equador -- her name is not in the program) who was recounting a success story that ...
Subaru announces the Stella electric concept car
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U.S. Ecosystem Report Indicates Trouble
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffYears of industrial and agricultural growth have left an indelible imprint on many formerly vibrant U.S. ecosystems. While nature is adept at resilience, the depletion and contamination of natural resources, especially water, may affect human health ...
Letter from Tällberg: We Are Running Out of Time
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments Off(Worldchanging shares many connections with the Tällberg Forum, the annual meeting of minds by the shores of a Lake in Northern Sweden, with Alex, Alan and Nicole all having attended in past years. Alan reports on ...
350 ppm, the Video
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffA catchy little video about the need to stabilize atmospheric CO2 at 350 ppm: Help us change the world - DONATE NOW! (Posted by Alex Steffen in Climate Change at 8:26 AM)
Green news harvest: $7 gasoline in two years, a blow to solar power plants
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Energy storage coming to a power grid near you
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Bella Energy’s Jim Welch elected president of The Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffBoulder, CO 2008 – Bella Energy, a solar energy company that installs and maintains solar energy systems in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Region, is pleased to announce that Bella Energy president Jim Welch has been elected president of The ...
California Air Resources Board Issues Draft Scoping Plan on Implementation of California’s Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32)
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffOn June 26, 2008, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) issued a draft scoping plan for implementation of AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. AB 32 requires California to reduce its emissions of six greenhouse gases to ...
Looking to Shave Costs, Schools Turn to Solar
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffRep. Inslee Introduces Renewable Energy Pricing Legislation
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffU.S. Representative Jay Inslee (D-WA) on Wednesday tackled head-on the question of whether Congress can mandate electricity prices with the introduction of legislation that would set "feed-in" tariffs to motivate the development and purchase of more renewable sources of electric ...
Vestas Receives Large Order In Spain
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffVestas has received an order for a total of 61 wind turbines for four projects in Spain. The order includes 49 units of Vestas' V90 1.8-megawatt (MW) wind turbine and 12 units of the V90 2-MW turbine for a total ...
China Sunergy & REC Sign Wafer Deal
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffChina Sunergy Co. Ltd. announced that it has entered into a supply agreement with REC Wafer for the supply of 156-millimeter monocrystalline wafers for the seven years from 2009 through 2015.
REpower Signs 48-MW Turbine Deal
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffREpower North (China) Co. Ltd has received an order for 24 wind turbines from Guangdong Baolihua New Energy Stock Co. Ltd, an energy and property company based in Guangzhou, China. REpower North will deliver type MM82 turbines, each with rated ...
RWE Innogy Starts Construction on Biomass CHP Plant
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffGermany's RWE Innogy has laid the foundation stone for a biomass-fired combined heat and power plant at the Wittgenstein inter-municipal industry park, in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein. The developer of the plant is RWE Innogy Cogen GmbH, a subsidiary of ...
Prism Solar Technologies to Present at the New Energy Symposium of 2008 in Albany on July 9.
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffDuke Energy Acquires Catamount Energy
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffDuke Energy has announced that it has acquired Catamount Energy Corporation from funds affiliated with Diamond Castle Holdings LLC. This transaction will significantly increase Duke Energy's wind energy operations. The transaction is valued at approximately US $240 million plus assumed ...