With a little help from the government, geothermal energy has the potential to take a much larger share of the renewable energy market in the U.S. in the near future.
President Barack Obama clearly laid out his energy agenda in Tuesday night's State of the Union address, promising "responsible development" of domestic oil and natural gas even as he pledged to invest in renewable energy. “We don’t have to choose between our environment and our economy,” he said.
This is a story about water, the land surrounding it, and the lives it sustains. Clean water should be a right: there is no life without it. New York is what you might call a "water state." Its rivers and their tributaries only start with the St. Lawrence, the Hudson, the Delaware, and the Susquehanna. The best known of its lakes are Great Lakes Erie and Ontario, Lake George, and the Finger Lakes. Its brooks, creeks, and trout streams are fishermen's lore.
Long before the Occupy movement swept the country—over two years ago—a political revolt began in one of the reddest states in America. Farmers and ranchers in Nebraska, many of whom are long-time conservatives, got angry about the amount of corporate influence in a single political issue that has since captivated the entire state and upset federal politics: the Keystone XL pipeline.
A new sunflower-inspired pattern increases concentrated solar efficiency.
Just outside Seville, in the desert region of Andalucia, Spain, sits an oasis-like sight: a 100-meter-high pillar surrounded by rows of giant mirrors rippling outward.
Companies from General Electric Co. to yogurt producer Chobani are adding U.S. workers, accelerating a rebound in hiring, as chief executive officers prepare for greater demand in a strengthening economic recovery.
My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve -- dangerously naïve. I’m aware that the usual recipe for political effectiveness is just the opposite: to be cynical, calculating, an insider. But if you think, as I do, that we need deep change in this country, then cynicism is a sucker’s bet. Try as hard as you
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More than a billion people worldwide lack access to electricity. The best way to bring it to them — while reducing greenhouse gas emissions — is to launch a global initiative to provide solar panels and other forms of distributed renewable power to poor villages and neighborhoods.
Can the US meet the new 2012 Renewable Fuels Standards?
Was 2011 a banner year for biofuels? It already seems like it was the year of big biofuel IPO announcements, and there's now proof that production is steadily growing.
"America needs to keep doing what it does so well -- innovate. Innovation costs money. Venture capital must keep investing in energy startups that make economic sense. Public investors who provide the real growth capital for young companies need to come to the capital markets and buy those stocks. As a key source of innovation funding, the U.S. government must keep
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With all the political posturing in Congress over the Keystone XL tar-sands oil pipeline, it's easy to lose sight of the real issue: This pipeline is dangerous, unnecessary, and would cost the American
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”—Dickens’s phrase might serve to sum up the reactions to what is now officially called the “Durban Platform for Enhanced Action” on climate
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Rooftop solar power is unfairly subsidized yet draws excessive opposition from utility companies because of the way the grid allocates costs for power distribution, according to a new study released by the Massachusetts Institute for Technology.
With aging coal-fired U.S. power plants shutting down, major American coal companies are exporting ever-larger amounts of coal to China. Now, plans to build two new coal-shipping terminals on the West Coast have set up a battle with environmentalists who want to steer the world away from fossil fuels.
With a Leaner Model, Start-Ups Reach Further Afield By: Steve Lohr
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Lee Redden, 26, a Ph.D. student in engineering at Stanford, recently decided to shelve his education and help found a start-up company.
The U.S. unemployment rate tumbled to a 2-1/2 year low in November, even though the pace of hiring remained too slow to suggest a significant acceleration in the labor market recovery.
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Focused on RFS, RIN, or VEETC? Have no idea what RMN, ATM, GDD, STT or LCW stand for? Amyris and Total do, and they are making their way towards serious scale. Are you?
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Ahead of a meeting Friday between President Barack Obama and hundreds of Native American leaders, the administration unveiled new rules for tribal lands that officials say will expedite home building and energy development.
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Energy is the lifeblood of the industrialized world, providing light, heat, transport, and thousands of vital benefits. But energy dependence also creates a complex collection of challenges,
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Some U.S. politicians have been attacking environmental regulations, arguing that they hurt the economy and that the costs outweigh the benefits. But four decades of data refute that claim and show we need not choose between a clean environment and economic growth.
Top international climate scientists and disaster experts meeting in Africa had a sharp message Friday for the world's political leaders: Get ready for more dangerous and "unprecedented extreme weather" caused by global warming.
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According to a new study, a 10-state program testing a CO2 cap-and-trade system has proven to be a success. The study, conducted by a team of Analysis Group researchers, measures the economic impact of investements made by the 10 states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) over the course of the program's first three years.
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No more cost-effective way to make major cuts in energy use and greenhouse gas emissions exists than retrofitting buildings. Now, from New York to Mumbai to Melbourne, a push is on to overhaul older buildings to make them more energy efficient.
Innovation, collaboration, and inspiration are imperative to the implementation of sustainable business solutions. This is precisely the philosophy behind the mission of the Opportunity Green Business Conference.
Recruiters spend countless hours reviewing resumes and screening candidates. In fact, they spend so much time scanning resumes, they can often do it in one minute or less.
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By: Louis Szablya In the area of home energy management, Microsoft and Google made two mistakes: failing to fully understand the needs of the application, resulting in "solutions" that offered limited real value; and abandoning this nascent market, which is destined to be a significant global opportunity for any vendor with a solution that satisfies the market's needs.
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Thousands of demonstrators, including movie stars and a Nobel laureate, surrounded the White House on Sunday to protest a proposed Canadian pipeline that's serving as a flashpoint for the U.S. environmental movement while resonating with Americans fed up with corporate interests.
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Recent calculations by the U.S. Department of Energy have found global output of greenhouse gases at an all time high. According to their study, the world released approximately 564 million tons more carbon in 2010 than in 2009, placing emissions levels at an outrageous increase of 6%. This article takes a closer look at the causes, implications, and forecast of these 2010 figures.
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For nearly a month now, a cluster of 53-foot containers on a ridge of Laurel Mountain in West Virginia has been sipping power from wind turbines that stretch out in both directions.
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The question is no longer whether or not global warming is real, but rather how we must address it. This is precisely the conclusion that former climate change skeptic Richard Muller has arrived at in his recent study of the world's surface temperatures.
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San Diego Gas & Electric and GE look at smart appliances for apartments, and California utilities promise customers a “green button” for standardized energy data.
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SINGAPORE — Pahang State in central Malaysia is about to become home to the world’s largest commercial farm project producing microalgae for biofuel. The farm will start to take shape in the first quarter of next year, on a 2,020-hectare, or 5,000-acre, site near Rompin, a small township in
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Is it possible that an air capturing device resembling a giant fly swat may be a viable means of successfully combating climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions? It appears so, according to a recent report by Nina Chestney.
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In an era marked by both innovations in wireless technology and climbing costs of healthcare, it comes as no surprise that wireless patient monitors have taken the lead as the fastest growing medical device.
A very interesting look into the history and future of the residential market for BIPV by David Anthony and Tao Zheng.
Whoever thought that every home in America would have a radio, a television, a phone, a computer, and now a solar rooftop? If it can be imagined, then it can be done.
By Steve Leone, Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com
New Hampshire, U.S.A. -- It's the middle of October, and the solar industry is on life support. Evergreen has died. SpectraWatt is buried. And Solyndra's eulogy has made mention of the black plague of federal financing. Meanwhile, ethanol is counting its days and second generation biofuels
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The challenge of feeding 9 billion people in a truly sustainable way is without doubt one of the most pressing issues that our civilization must face. The success of this challenge will rely heavily on the imagination, innovation, and determination of people around the world.
Reporting by Scott DiSavino in New York; Editing by David Gregorio
(Reuters) - Deepwater Wind is racing to build the first U.S. offshore wind farm off Rhode Island and hopes to parlay that into a string of East Coast farms that could partially replace embattled nuclear power plants.
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Offshore wind is a new market; it has been just two decades since the first commercial installation. The sector was born mainly due to lack of space for the development of large onshore wind projects in the densely populated areas of Western Europe.
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I've said it before, but symbolism is hugely important as we transition from the fossil fuel age to a clean energy economy. So the announcement that an iconic steam-era railway bridge is to become
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A new imaging system that uses a suite of airborne sensors is capable of providing detailed, three-dimensional pictures of tropical forests — including the species they contain and the amount of CO2 they store — at astonishing speed. These advances could play a key role in preserving the world’s beleaguered rainforests.
This Article by Clint Wilder of Clean Edge is an interesting and more fact-driven take on the solar industry (as well as CleanTech / Renewables in general) post-Solyndra. Here is another article reiterating the same mentality with more numerical detail that the solar industry will continue to grow despite its recent backlash.
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