Germany Continues Exporting Electricity--Renewables Driving Down Power Prices--Despite Closing Reactors September 27, 2011 By Paul Gipe Recent data shows Germany continues to export electricity despite closing seven nuclear reactors. Meanwhile Bloomberg reports that continued renewabl...
The idea is such a simple one: rotate solar panels to follow the sun throughout the day so they capture the most of the sun's energy as possible. Solar power tracking systems have been around for some time, but a 19-year-old claims to have done existing systems one better. Eden Full i...
Take a look in the mirror. Population growth tends to get blamed on other people: Africans and Asians who have "more kids than they can feed," immigrants in our own country with their "large families," even single mothers in the "inner city." But actually the population problem is all...
Earlier this month, the California State Senate approved a bill that would ban the sale, trade and possession of shark fins inside state borders. Up to 73 million sharks each year are slaughtered to make shark fin soup , a popular Asian delicacy. Shark finning is a cruel and wasteful ...
Juszkiewicz photo: shannonpatrick17 This is the first story in a four-part series about how foreign timber companies, Tea Party groups, and Gibson Guitar have turned illegal logging into Republicans' new cause célèbre. If you've tuned into any of the major jobs speeches recently or th...
Lucy Nicholson/Reuters A hiker sips from his bottle near Heart Lake in the Red Mountains of Yellowstone National Park. A new report predicts the park’s ecosystem, from trees to wildlife, will be harmed by climate change. Before the end of the century, Yellowstone National Park could e...
Every day, oil companies burn 100 million cubic feet of natural gas -- not to power anything, but just because it's not oil and they don't need it. According to The New York Times , the North Dakota landscape is full of will-o-the-wisp plumes of fire where natural gas is burning off. ...
Banger boats heading out of the harbor. Week two of Operation Infinite Patience was yet another good week for the dolphins around the shores of Taiji. Typhoon Roke, with strong winds later in the week, ensured that the dolphin killers stayed in port for four days. For the first two da...
And the skies of night were alive with light, with a throbbing, thrilling flame; Amber and rose and violet, opal and gold it came. It swept the sky like a giant scythe, it quivered back to a wedge; Argently bright, it cleft the night with a wavy golden edge. — “The Ballad of the North...
Contact: Nick Berning, 202-222-0748, [email protected] ; Kelly Trout, 202-222-0722, [email protected] Pipeline lobbyist accused of illegal lobbying for foreign corporation Justice Department urged to investigate after emails reveal Canadian oil lobbyist who was former aide of Secretary Cl...
When cleaning with lemons always rinse with warm soapy water and dry with a clean cloth afterwards. One of the very few things you can’t clean with lemon juice is anything that is brass plated as the juice will damage the item. Aside from that, here is a list of items that can be clea...
Don’t worry about battery life: The biggest question I get about electric vehicles is about that great big battery pack — will I be out thousands of dollars if the most expensive component in the car gives out on me? People ask this both because they don’t want to be liable for buying...
In my last post , I noted the disdain U.S. elites feel for the grubby-but-necessary politics of clean energy deployment. It's all well and good to advocate for sweeping macroeconomic solutions to carbon pollution, but there are all sorts of proximate battles being fought on the ground...
On Monday, at least 400 protestors stormed -- or, more accurately, walked gently up to and tapped on the shoulder -- the Canadian parliament building in Ottawa to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. Over 100 people were arrested , charged with trespassing, and barred from coming near th...
The idea is such a simple one: rotate solar panels to follow the sun throughout the day so they capture the most of the sun's energy as possible. Solar power tracking systems have been around for some time, but a 19-year-old claims to have done existing systems one better. Eden Full i...
Department of Energy The nation’s persistent reliance on oil poses long-term hazards, an analysis says. Research on solar and wind power is all well and good, but a self-assessment by the Department of Energy has found that in the great scheme of energy needs, the government is not in...
Cross-posted from Climate Progress . The political reaction to the Solyndra scandal has been laughably devoid of both short-term and long-term historical perspective. In an attempt to exploit a political opportunity, many House Republicans are railing against government investments in...
Vinod Khosla appeared at San Francisco City Hall at an AlwaysOn GoingGreen Event today. He gave his pronouncements on innovation and his portfolio firms: If you're not afraid of failure, it frees you up to succeed. Khosla Ventures' portfolio firm KiOR started with a call from Belgium ...
Ray Mabus, Secretary of the U.S. Navy, has a refreshing historical perspective on the Navy's efforts to end its dependence on our increasingly expensive and environmentally destructive supplies of oil. From a speech he recently gave at the National Clean Energy Summit 4.0: In the 1850...
Ever wanted to ride a bike with nifty metal wheels? Well, now you can, thanks to London-based designer Ron Arad and his team, who created this awesome bike sporting wheels made out of ribbons of tempered steel, all bolted together at strategic points. So how does this unorthodox-looki...
Violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act can result in huge fines for people who lobby on behalf of foreign corporations who fail to disclose their actions. The letter from Friends of the Earth's attorney to the Department of Justice can be found here . "Paul Elliott, a governmen...
Image by angela7dreams via Flickr. Just like any company, nature has a budget - it can only produce so many resources and absorb so much waste each year. The problem is our demand on nature's services is exceeding what it can provide putting at risk the life-supporting systems on whic...
We know, we know -- you just got done patting yourself on the back over that New York Times graphic showing that healthy food is cheaper than fast food. If you were operating on a really tight budget, we're sure you'd be able to pull off super-wholesome eating for your whole family! H...
We’ve told you about several eco-friendly uses for coffee grounds – powering electronics , growing gourmet mushrooms and, of course, adding them to the compost pile . But over in a Durham, England, an engineer and group of volunteers have found a way to convert old coffee grounds coll...
For years, some of the biggest names in the business community have looked to their global supply chains for opportunities to reduce carbon emissions. Walmart, for example, famously decreed the supply chain the next frontier when it began surveying suppliers on their environmental imp...
The most recent deals to close will back a biofuel project, a New Hampshire wind farm and a geothermal plant in Nevada. Wind The DOE has finalized a partial guarantee for a $168.9 million loan to Granite Reliable Power to support a 99-megawatt (MW) wind generation project that could b...
Clean Power Finance has developed an open platform that connects installers with investors like Google willing to finance homeowners’ solar power system leases. Serving as a centralized exchange connecting solar power system installers with finance providers offers both parties in the...
Clean Your Coffeemaker – Run your coffeemaker just as you normally do, but instead of using just water use a 1/2 and 1/2 mixture of water and vinegar. No coffee grounds needed, of course! I usually do it twice in a row, followed by at least twice using just water, to make sure it’s as...
And the skies of night were alive with light, with a throbbing, thrilling flame; Amber and rose and violet, opal and gold it came. It swept the sky like a giant scythe, it quivered back to a wedge; Argently bright, it cleft the night with a wavy golden edge. — “The Ballad of the North...
Wall Street Protests Have Ecological Angle Matt has already made the case, of course, for why environmentalists should care about protests against Wall Street , arguing that wealth inequality, militarism and corporate corruption all have an environmental impact. But the problem with W...
