January 5, 2008 – 3:02 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
By Judy Pasternak, The Los Angeles Times, December 30, 2007. “On the brink of a nuclear power resurgence in America, the once-vilified industry is buoyed by a slate of presidential candidates who seem ready to embrace — or at least consider — a nuclear energy future. Already enjoying strong support in the White House, nuclear-fueled [...]
December 13, 2007 – 4:05 am
EarthJustice
Stronger standards would save energy, cut global warming pollution by 700 million tons
December 11, 2007
San Francisco, CA — Environmental groups and the state of California are filing lawsuits urging the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to adopt stronger energy efficiency standards for electricity distribution transformers, the gray boxes mounted on utility poles all over the [...]
August 21, 2007 – 4:05 pm
TreeHugger
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has released a study that shows that “the aggressive development and implementation of a full portfolio of advanced electricity technologies could reduce the economic cost of cutting future U.S. CO2 emissions by more than 50 per cent while meeting the continuing growth in demand for electricity.” All this, and [...]
August 14, 2007 – 2:31 am
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Ambient Devices
The August issue of Wired magazine has a very interesting article about a unique way to alert people to their energy usage, and the piece suggests an equally novel way to take advantage of the consumers’ heightened social consciousness to get them to alter their behavior.
In his story Clive Thompson Thinks: Desktop [...]
TreeHugger
How ironic that the TVA, long ago created by the US Congress to bring electricity to the rural South and encourage economic development, now serves a constituency that wishes to be excluded from incentives to develop more cost-effective, clean forms of energy. Maybe they think that climate change only applies ‘to the rest of [...]
TreeHugger
Michael Jantzen of the Transformation House and the Wind Shaped Pavilion proposes yet another wind and sun powered structure, this time for the California State University at Fullerton.
A vertical axis turbine and four rings of photovoltaics generate electricity that is stored in batteries, or as Jantzen says “Some of the electrical energy gathered by the [...]
From: Climate Crisis Coalition
UNEP Director Praises Cuba for Tackling Energy Crisis.
By Bill Wessert, The Associated Press, July 6, 2007.
“‘Cuba a few years ago was facing a real energy crisis, 16 hours of … electricity cuts and therefore a realization that the economy was going to collapse under this system,’ said Achim Steiner [head of the [...]
From: Climate Crisis Coalition
Germany Aims for 45% of Electricity From Renewable Resources by 2030.
Agence France-Presse, July 5, 2007.
“Germany plans to boost the percentage of electricity generated by renewable resources to 45 percent by 2030 in a bid to curb global warming, environment minister Sigmar Gabriel said Thursday. Gabriel told reporters that a progress report on [...]
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