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A video from ForaTV of a May 2009 debate sponsored by the Miller Center for Public affairs between John Podesta, Robert Woolsey, Christine Todd Whitman, and Karen Hubert on America’s energy future.
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Algae farming is a relatively safe bet in the current financial climate. Algae, a sludge colored illuminatingly lime to moss green, has going for it that it can be made anywhere –even in desert climates- and that it can be relatively swiftly adopted. A big negative is that the price of producing one gallon worth of algae based petroleum is still relatively cost inefficient compared to oil. But even at the negative end of this spectrum, there’s masses of potential.
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Europeans are far ahead compared to North Americans when it comes to adopting green living standards by large groups and local communities. The case of the Danish Island of Samso is a brilliant example of how a self sufficient lifestyle can be adopted by a community within a relatively short space of time.
Continue Reading Danish Island Achieves Carbon Neutrality
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Alternative energy grids are a thing of the future. Their successful introduction at local and community level depends a lot on eliminating information gaps and getting people organized. Britain is undeniably far ahead in thinking up practical schemes. A recent study by the Energy Savings Trust in the UK outlines in depth how the social revolution can truly explode by including real life energy initiatives.
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Saying she has “lost all confidence” in Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson’s ability to carry out his agency’s mission, Senate Environmental and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer called on him to resign his post.
Continue Reading EPA’s Stephen Johnson Under Fire to Resign: It Wasn’t Always Like This at the EPA…
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Ever thought about off-grid living? It’s quite a step but you can decide to try it out somewhat by buying a personal wind turbine. There are several on the market. Next September a true designer personal wind turbine hits the shops, designed by no one less than Philippe Starck.Continue Reading Personal Wind Turbines Now Come Designer Made
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In a bold “Apollo-like” statement, delivered today from Washington D.C., former Vice President and Nobel Peace Laureate Al Gore challenged the nation to commit to a renewable energy economy, and to do it now – within the next ten years.
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Industrially produced biofuels are wildly controversial but it’s very easy to produce good stuff yourself. Small businesses and even individuals are getting into producing their own biodiesel en masse. There’s even a new exchange now on which producers can sell their surplus diesel to interested parties.
Continue Reading New Exchange For Trading Home-Brewed Biofuels
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It’s like that serendipitous combination of chocolate and peanut butter, only the Dept. of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab and Optony are purposely setting out to combine their leading edge efforts to bring down the costs of solar power by wedding the former’s record-setting thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) cells with the latter’s concentrating solar power (CSP) system.
Continue Reading Bringing Down the Cost of Solar PV: A Match Made in Heaven?
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The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) today released its latest study of global renewable energy investment. 2007 was another record-setting year for investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency, according to UNEP’s “Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2008.”
Continue Reading Green Energy Gold Rush Carries On Despite Credit Crunch, UNEP Finds
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