Energy Self-Reliant States: On the air talking solar ownership!

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions, Resource Efficiency, Greentech

On the air talking solar ownership! Community solar gardens are now set to grow in Minnesota, but the PUC decision shows a few weeds that were planted in the original rules for solar adopted in 2013. And I’m on the air talking solar ownership with Arnie Arnesen on WNHN. If …

NEW UN STUDY HIGHLIGHTS HUGE POTENTIAL FOR GENERATING CLEAN ENERGY IN AFRICA

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

NEW UN STUDY HIGHLIGHTS HUGE POTENTIAL FOR GENERATING CLEAN ENERGY IN AFRICA New York, May 13 2013  4:00PM Less than 1 per cent of all patent applications relating to clean energy technology (CET) have been filed in Africa, according to a new United Nations study, which also highlights the opportunity …

Alternative Energy

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

Scotland Chooses Wind Energy Over Trump’s Golf Course Plant Extracts Used For Making Water Soluble Solar Panels Using fluctuating wind power Nanoparticles show promise as inexpensive, durable and effective scintillators Kenyan Ambassador To Speak At New York Geothermal Conference Microscale medical sensors inserted under skin powered wirelessly by external handheld …

Green Lighting Growth: Climate Patriot Bonds and Carbon Taxes

kristyReforming Global Finance

Green Lighting Growth: Climate Patriot Bonds and Carbon Taxes Feb 26 By Walter Borden Green Bonds, Carbon Taxes, and Market Failures THE gathering dangers of global warming for life necessitate that humanity collapse its dependency on fossil fuel energy (FFE). Ecological fiduciary responsibility requires shifting balance from political restraint to …

IISD & G SI paper on subsidy estimation: Measuring price subsidies using the price-gap approach: What does it leave out?

kristyResource Efficiency

In the wake of India ’s move in June to reduce its fuel subsidies, and the IEA’s announcement that US$ 557 billion was spent on fossil-fuel subsidies by 37 of the world’s economies in 2008, the measurement of subsidies is a pressing and sensitive issue – what does it include …