From the Showtime series “ YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY “ watch the final episode ,Hazel Henderson, Editor ‘Science Is Science’: Obama Embraces Price On Carbon, Leaving Fossil Fuels In The Ground By Joe Romm on www.thinkprogress.org/climate June 8, 2014 “The baseline fact of climate change is not something we can …
The Economic Case for Divesting from Fossil Fuels
Garvin Jabusch, Co-Founder, Chief Investment Officer, Green Alpha Advisors The fossil fuels industry, big oil, big coal, natural gas, and its allied sectors, including some large financial institutions, will not quietly or willingly retire into the history of ideas whose time has passed. That fossil fuels represent the single …
Tell Amazon: Stop powering the Internet with fossil fuels
Tell Amazon: Stop powering the Internet with fossil fuels Sign the petition: “Amazon is one of the three largest Internet companies in the world — and it’s the only one of the three that hasn’t committed to using 100% renewable energy to power its data centers. Tell Amazon to stop using …
White House Targets Methane Emissions
White House Targets Methane Emissions On March 28, the white house released a multi-pronged strategy to reduce methane emissions from a variety of sources, a step the administration says is an outgrowth of the President’s Climate Action Plan announced last year. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, about 20 times more potent …
New Report Finds Energy Efficiency is America’s Cheapest Energy Resource
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release Media Contact: Patrick Kiker 202.507.4043, [email protected] New Report Finds Energy Efficiency is America’s Cheapest Energy Resource Energy Efficiency Costs Utilities 2 to 3 Times Less Than Traditional Power Sources; Average of 2.8 Cents per Kilowatt Hour Washington, D.C. (March 26, …
Ukraine crisis shows urgency of green energy: Russian nat’l gas blackmail
by Juan Cole, originally published by Informed Comment | MAR 8, 2014 Hawks are complaining that europe has been insufficiently belligerent in its response to Russian moves in the Crimea, blaming the declining military budgets in most European countries. But this focus on military hardware is misleading, since there was never any prospect …
Energy Self-Reliant States: Five Reasons Solar’s Win Over Gas in Minnesota is Just the Beginning
Last week, I summarized the impact of the judicial ruling requiring Xcel Energy to buy peaking power from solar instead of natural gas: Five Reasons Solar’s Win Over Gas in Minnesota is Just the Beginning. Also, I was quoted by Minnesota Public Radio about the release of the Minneapolis Energy Pathways …
Mirrors Power Up the Mojave
Mirrors Power Up the Mojave Last week the Ivanpah solar thermal power plant in California went operational last week. Ivanpah is a marvel. Located in the Mojave Desert, the steam like any other. However, at Ivanpah the power plant owner NRG Energy (NRG: NYSE). Google (GOOG: Nasdaq) is a ‘relatively’ …
RENEWABLE ENERGY PROVIDES 37% OF ALL NEW U.S. ELECTRICAL GENERATING CAPACITY IN 2013
SUN DAY CAMPAIGN 6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite #340; Takoma Park, MD 20912 301-270-6477 x.11 [email protected] News Advisory RENEWABLE ENERGY PROVIDES 37% OF ALL NEW U.S. ELECTRICAL GENERATING CAPACITY IN 2013 SOLAR SURPASSED ONLY BY NATURAL GAS NEW RENEWABLE CAPACITY MORE THAN TRIPLE COAL, OIL, AND …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Local communities produce high-quality forest monitoring data, rivals that of professional foresters
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Local communities produce high-quality forest monitoring data, rivals that of professional foresters Posted: 28 Oct 2013 05:54 PM PDT A recent study by researchers at the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Centre and European and Southeast Asian institutions finds that local communities — using simple tools …