Camping at Tällberg – Episode 5: Cold Water Cooking
Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments OffJohn Elkington is leading a very lively discussion on aid and entrepreneurism. “Does aid work?” says a young Kenyan entrepreneur, whose name I missed (he is a late addition to the program). His answer is ...
Camping at Tällberg; Episode 4: Stop Talking, Start Planting
Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments OffMorning again. Somehow folks crawled out of bed after dancing and drinking past midnight, and made their way to the big tent by 8:30 (it is full when I get there) to experience the climate ...
China Recruits Algae to Combat Climate Change
Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Sustainable Development | Comments Offby Jonathan Watts The garish gunk coursing through a greenhouse filled with transparent pipes appears to belong on the set of a particularly slimy episode of Star Trek. Multiplying rapidly as it flows through tubes, stacked 14 ...
A Plea To President Obama: End Mountaintop Coal Mining by James Hansen
Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments Offby James Hansen Tighter restrictions on mountaintop removal mining are simply not enough. Instead, a leading climate scientist argues, the Obama administration must prohibit this destructive practice, which is devastating vast stretches of Appalachia. President Obama speaks ...
New solar airplane unveiled in Switzerland
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Biogas and Second Generation Fuels at European Biomass Event
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffAt the 17th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, which opened today in Hamburg, Schmack Biogas was awarded the EUBIA (European Biomass Industry Asociation) award for its innovative work in biogas. The company and the bioenergy sector have experienced record ...
NHA Applauds Support for Hydro and Other Renewables in House Bill
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffWashington, D.C. (June 29, 2009) – The following is a statement from National Hydropower Association Executive Director Linda Church Ciocci reacting to House passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, H.R. 2454:
SIEMON, WATERTOWN-BASED GLOBAL MANUFACTURING LEADER, AND ALTERIS RENEWABLES COMMISSION NEW SOLAR POWER INSTALLATION
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffBiogas and Second Generation Fuels at European Biomass Event
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffAt the 17th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, which opened today in Hamburg, Schmack Biogas was awarded the EUBIA (European Biomass Industry Asociation) award for its innovative work in biogas. The company and the bioenergy sector have experienced record ...
House Passes Climate Bill Including National RPS
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffLate last Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 219-212 to pass the American Clean Energy & Security Act. The new climate legislation includes a National Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) provision, mandating that investor owned utilities buy a minimum of ...
Short-sighted Cuts to U.S. Ocean Energy Budgets
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe earth is the water planet, so it should come as no great surprise that waterpower, aka hydropower, has been one of the world's most popular "renewable" energy sources. Yet the largest hydropower source of all -- the ...
Radiance Solar & Cox Enterprises Complete Solar Hot Water Installation
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffRadiance Solar LLC announced the completion of one of Georgia's largest solar thermal hot water installations at Cox Enterprises' Manheim Georgia facility. The system will supply hot water to Manheim Georgia's auto detail operation, offsetting more than 300 million BTUs ...
Aora Launches First Hybrid Solarized Gas Turbine Power Station
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffAora has launched its first hybrid solar thermal gas turbine power station at Kibbutz Samar in southern Israel. Aora's Samar "Power Flower" station consists of a field of 30 tracking mirrors (heliostats) situated on half an acre of land.
SPI’s 200-Watt Module Receives CEC’s Highest Rating
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSolar Power Inc. (SPI) announced that two of its 200-watt modules, have been ranked number one and number two in comparative performance ratings awarded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). In April, SPI announced another of its 200-watt modules had ...
How Utilities Integrate Wind Energy
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe U.S. wind energy industry in 2008 shattered previous records by installing 8,435 MW of new generating capacity (generating enough electricity during a year to serve more than 2 million homes), making wind power a mainstream generating technology for ...
Camping at Tällberg – Episode 3: An Evening of Standing Ovations
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffGro Harlem Brundtland is relating stories from her childhood — as a Norwegian refugee in Stockholm during World War II, leading her little brother safely across streets, and the unexpected apology she received from her father, ...
Camping at Tällberg — Episode 2: A Bad Problem Problem is Actually Much Worse
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Events, Green News | Comments OffIt’s morning. I had a wonderful, quiet time by the Lake, sleeping, writing, playing guitar. (The photo was taken just after midnight, from my tentsite.) But now I walk (late) into the big tent of the Tällberg ...
Thoughts on the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe Waxman-Markey climate bill (HR 2454), passed in the U.S. House of Representatives today, is hailed by many as the most important piece of climate change legislation ever. Yet it's still receiving a surprising amount of opposition from environmentalists, mostly ...
U.S. House Acknowledges Planetary Atmosphere!
Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThough the low targets in the Waxman-Markey climate bill appall me, I'm also finding myself filled with a warm glow at its passage in the House. I've been writing about climate change for two decades, and now, ...