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House Passes Energy/Climate Bill

December 8, 2007 – 11:36 am

Climate Crisis Coalition
By Jonathan Weisman and Steven Mufson, The Washington Post, December 7, 2007. “The House yesterday brushed aside a new White House veto threat and handily approved a comprehensive energy bill that would raise automobile fuel-efficiency standards for the first time in 32 years and require increased use of renewable energy sources to generate electricity. The […]

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Windspire: 1 kW Wind Turbine for Your Backyard

September 10, 2007 – 3:26 am

TreeHugger
With its sleek, bladeless design and capacity to produce nearly 2000 kilowatt hours per year, the Windspire might just inspire some YIMBYism — that’s Yes, In My BackYard — about wind power. At 30 feet tall and 2 feet wide, the propeller-less design is bird-safe, relatively quiet — it produces about 25 decibels of noise […]

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China launches large-scale renewable energy plan

September 7, 2007 – 4:38 am

A wind farm
Hepeng Jia
5 September 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
[BEIJING] China has released an ambitious plan to develop renewable energy to cut its surging carbon dioxide emissions.
The ‘Middle and Long-term Development Plan of Renewable Energies’ promises to derive ten per cent of China’s […]

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Senate Adopts a Compromise Energy Bill Raising Mileage for Cars, But Gives in to Oil Interests.

June 26, 2007 – 10:19 pm

Climate Crisis Coalition
Senate Adopts a Compromise Energy Bill Raising Mileage for Cars, But Gives in to Oil Interests. By Edmund L. Andrews, The New York Times, June 22, 2007. “The Senate passed a broad energy bill that would, among other things, require the first big increase in fuel mileage requirements for passenger cars in more […]

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Greenpeace - Making Waves

June 25, 2007 – 1:15 pm

Greenpeace - Making Waves
San Francisco goes for smart energy
From the Sacramento Bee:
The city plans eventually to have at least 51 percent of its electricity supplied by renewable sources of energy — compared to about 13 percent for PG&E today. Those new sources could include a wind farm in Solano County, geothermal power from the desert, […]

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Offshore Wind Deal for Delaware

June 13, 2007 – 12:17 pm

SierraClub

In Denmark, which leads the world in wind power, many of the biggest wind farms are built offshore in the waters of the North Sea. The burgeoning wind industry in the United States has yet to venture off land, but if a proposed […]

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