Dear Friends, WECC is glad to be supporting the upcoming iMatter March on May 8th. Please join us in the iMatter March on Mother’s Day, May 8th in San Francisco. The iMatter Campaign was started by 16 year old Alec Loorz. It is a youth-led revolution that will serve as …
PCI wins YouTube DoGooder nonprofit video award.
A publication from Post Carbon Institute contents 1. we won! 2. the end of growth 3. the post carbon reader 4. latest publications 5. energy bulletin picks 6. transition us update 7. events Leave it to the bombing campaign in Libya to remind us that the ongoing horror in Japan …
EnerNOC Wins SCE Contract for Energy Efficiency
EnerNOC Wins SCE Contract for Energy Efficiency Forget about demand response, EnerNOC wants a bite of the energy efficiency pie. The Humanitarian Side of Solar and Renewables We take a break from pure capitalism to honor the human, animal, and environmental-minded side of the renewable business. Suniva Update: “Suspending” Pursuit …
The Green Transition: A Personal Note from Hazel Henderson
The global economy is now at a tipping point – emerging from the 300-year fossil-fueled Industrial Era to the cleaner, greener information-rich renewable energy societies which I predicted in my The Politics of the Solar Age in 1981. Although prominently reviewed in the New York Times and based on six …
Can Batteries Reduce the Cost of Solar?
Can Batteries Reduce the Cost of Solar? Sunverge says a 2-kilowatt system with batteries works better than a 4-kilowatt system, as grid management meets solar. Ten Green Ideas That May Never Take Flight Willie Makeit? Betty Won’t! A list of great ideas that circumstances have conspired against. EV Maker Tesla’s …
Time to End Subsidies on Fossil Fuels and Nukes
A Taxpayer-Funded Sucker Play for the 21st Century By Jeff Siegel | Monday, November 8th, 2010 I have to admit, elections put me in a bit of a funk. Let’s just say that no matter who I vote for — whether Republican or Democrat — I always experience a sense …
The Top Ten VCs in Smart Grid
Can Consumers Be Convinced to Conserve? And should they be in control, or should the home be automated? Two Billion Cars and the Hope of Zero-Emission Vehicles Work progresses on vehicles and fuels, but how do we change driving behavior and lower vehicle miles?
Energy Subsidies Black, Not Green
A study released by the Environmental Law Institute, a nonpartisan research and policy organization, shows that the federal government has provided substantially larger subsidies to fossil fuels than to renewables.