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Breaking Down the Federal Clean Energy Innovation Budget: Demonstration ProjectsEnergy Efficiency and Energy Use: The Rebound Effect is OverplayedFukushima, from Nuclear Energy to Wind EnergyKeystone XL or the Climate – a False Choice?Meeting the Climate Change Challenge: Cities Plan for Worst and Hope for the Best

Breaking Down the Federal Clean Energy Innovation Budget: Demonstration Projects

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 06:25 AM PST

Transforming the U.S. (and global) energy system from fossil fuels to low-carbon technologies requires a healthy, publicly supported innovation ecosystem that invests in and supports research, development, demonstration, and deployment. But as discussed in Part 2 of this series, America’s energy innovation ecosystem is “hollowed out”, particularly because of reduced investment in technology demonstration projects.

Energy Efficiency and Energy Use: The Rebound Effect is Overplayed

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 06:23 AM PST

Trying to put the rebound effect for energy efficiency in its rightful place is like playing a game of wack-a-mole. Predictably every couple of years, someone new discovers the counter-intuitive appeal of showing how more efficient energy policies may lead to more energy use. Wham! Told you there’s something wrong with those clean-car standards. Well, not so fast.

Fukushima, from Nuclear Energy to Wind Energy

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 05:51 AM PST

Nuclear blast in Fukushima. Credit: AFP/HO/NHK

Keystone XL or the Climate – a False Choice?

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 05:35 AM PST

The governor of Nebraska’s approval of the Keystone XL pipeline’s route through his state has some opponents conjuring up old arguments and false choices in an attempt to gain traction against a project that could help create hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs, stimulate economic activity and help make America more energy secure.

Meeting the Climate Change Challenge: Cities Plan for Worst and Hope for the Best

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 05:21 AM PST

In many ways meeting the challenge of climate change and sustainable development is often most effective at the municipal level. Cities strike a balance between meeting the diverse needs of its inhabitants with the ability to adopt and adapt to the realities and challenges of global warming, development, infrastructure and energy.