California Tradable RECs – Will They Ever Materialize?
by David NiebauerCalifornia has led the nation in solar development on many fronts for a number of years, but there is one area where California has lagged significantly – the implementation of tradable renewable energy certificates (or TRECs).As of …
Is Anaerobic Digestion Needed to Avoid Massive Famine?
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Peak oil is a subject that has gained much traction (even inspiring some sexy if pessimistic dancing from Oily Cassandra). After all, it’s hard to ignore the fact that our dependence on oil and other fossil fuels leaves us vulnerable to supply shortages or sudden price hikes. But it’s less well known that we may face a simultaneous, and equally troubling shortage of another key resource—phosphorous. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Clean Technology Venture Investment Increases 65 Percent in First Half of 2010
Matches 2008 Investment RecordThe Cleantech Group and Deloitte released preliminary 2Q 2010 results for clean technology venture investments in North America, Europe, China and India, totaling $2.02 billion across 140 companies.Cleantech venture invest…
Rhode Island Offshore Wind Farm Takes Step Forward – And Some Environmentalists Are Upset?
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The race to build the first offshore wind farm in the United States continues with Rhode Island taking one more legislative step towards beating its neighbors. The Providence Journal reports that the state legislature has enacted a new law that speeds the time it takes to get regulatory approval between wind power developer…Read the full story on TreeHugger
“Green Britain Day” May Be Greenwash. But What’s Wrong with Being French?
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British wind developer Ecotricity, and French nuclear giant EDF, have already clashed over EDF’s co-opting of a green Union Jack flag. The resulting spat even caused Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince to rename the EDF-sponsored “Green Britain Day” as National Greenwash Day. It looks like the row is set to resume as the “holiday” rolls around again. Interestingly (and perhaps smartly, from a purely t…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Top Ten Energy Myths
by Richard T. StuebiI get a kick out of trite little lists that I can quickly report on and provoke some thinking and conversation.And so it is that I recently came across the “Top Ten Energy Myths”, as suggested by Thomas Tanton, a fellow at the P…
Great Lakes Offshore Wind Farms Already Face NIMBY Opposition, Just Like Those in Saltwater
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Developing offshore wind farms on the Great Lakes has been touted as an overlooked resource in a number of studies and indeed a few projects are in the planning stages. Which, seemingly on cue, has aroused opposition to them on the usual grounds, as the Detroit News reports:…Read the full story on TreeHugger
UNEP Report Shows Green Movement Has Its Priorities Straight (More or Less…)
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In case you’ve been wondering lately if this whole tree-hugging nonsense has its priorities straight, wondering if those of us in the environmental movement are focusing on the right areas of greatest ecological impact, the UNEP has just released a new report detailing which human activities are causing the greatest harm. Many of these reports are jargon-filled and sometimes intimidating if you’re not used to reading them and this one is no different; <a href="http://www.unep.org/re…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Bill Gates Says Large Scale Renewable Projects Are Decades Away
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On Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show, GPS, Bill Gates gave a gloomy answer when asked about the prospects of the U.S. creating renewable energy projects at such a large scale that they will replace dirty fuel sources like coal and oil in the coming decade. Gates, normally sanguine on the power of technology and market forces to cause transformative change at a rapid pace, said that the technology to store energy f…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Getting Developing Nations on a Greener Path Without Creating a New Renewable Energy ‘Colonialism’
Family and friends pose in front of a house in South Africa with a new solar heating system. Photo by Abri_Beluga via Flickr
No matter how much it might help the environment for fewer nations to produce and consume at U.S.-style levels, slowing global development would clearly be an unworkable — and profoundly unfair — way to address the climate crisis. As environmental scientist Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker put it this morning at a conference in Berlin: “Poor and cle…Read the full story on TreeHugger
