Cities are becoming more powerful than nations. Hopefully, they will use that power for good, not for evil.
White Tigers, Favorite Fruits, Ocean Cleanup Efforts, and Solar Energy
I decided rather than posting the first part of each article I write on here verbatim that I would start doing a one-article summary once a week of the articles I wrote during the week. We’ll see how this goes.…
Historic Report: Solar Energy Costs Now Lower than Nuclear Energy
For ages, people have been saying: “Solar is a great, clean, renewable energy source, but it is just too expensive. Other energy sources, like nuclear, may have some (or serious) environmental risks, but they are cheaper.” Now, a new report…
Fossil Fuels Get Tons More in Subsidies than Renewable Energy
Fossil fuel subsidies are huge. It is something many of us now know, but which even more people don’t. Thus, it is something we come back to from time to time on here. A new report out by Bloomberg New Energy…
Russia Plans its Largest Wind Farm and 1st Major Solar Power Plant
Russia, heavily focused on oil and gas, has just unveiled plans to build its biggest wind farm. The country also intends to build its first solar power plant soon. Are the heat waves and fires getting to the country and President Medvedev?…
Do You Know Your Representatives in Congress?
There are a lot of ways you can throw the blame after the horrible death of a comprehensive climate change and clean energy bill, and the seeming death of a national Renewable Energy Standard (RES). You can blame: the Republican party…
Portland Now Has Largest Solar Array in the Northwest
The largest rooftop solar array in the Pacific Northwest was finished this week. Portland General Electric (PGE) announced on Monday that it just finished the $14 million solar project that it started building in March. The array covers the roofs…
10 Million Solar Roofs Bill Moves Forward
If you haven’t heard by now, the U.S. Senate Energy Committee advanced a big piece of solar energy legislation last week (prior to the killing of the climate and clean energy bill). Vermont senator and Green Jobs Committee chairman Bernie Sanders…
$200 Million for Your Smart Grid Ideas: GE Ecomagination Challenge
Have a good idea for energy creation and distribution? GE and 4 prominent venture capital firms are offering up $200 million for winners of its Ecomagination Challenge in an effort to quicken development of a national smart grid. Perhaps you could be the…
Spain Opens Largest Solar Power Plant in World, Passes US as Largest Solar Power Generator
Spain has now opened the largest solar power plant in the world, the La Florida solar plant in Alvarado, Badajoz. With the opening of this massive solar power plant, Spain has also now passed up the United States as the…