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How About a U.S. 50% Carbon Neutral in 40 Years?

A biodiesel tractor on Samso

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What do you think… If it weren’t for opposition from Big Oil, could the U.S. ever become even 50% Carbon Neutral?

Most Energy Efficient Place on Earth?

April 9, 2012 Blogs 1 Comment

A biodiesel tractor on Samso

’s Samso is a sort of paradise for renewable energy enthusiasts. The residents have created, in just over a decade, a 100 percent carbon neutral, self-sufficient community.The local Samso Energy Academy is an example for other areas around the globe who might want to create an economic environment that is good for the ecological environment. … Continue Reading

Greek Hopes Rest on Solar Power for Economic Recovery

April 9, 2012 News 4 Comments

The "Helios" solar power plane on first test flight over Niihau after take off

Greece, perhaps more than any other country in the EU, has been the worst hit in the Euro-zone crisis. However, the Greek Prime Minister has declared that renewable energy investments will prove to be crucial to the country’s recovery. … Continue Reading

U.S., Canada, Mexico Vow ‘Continental’ Energy Grid

April 3, 2012 News 2 Comments

A holistic, renewable electricity system would generate millions of good jobs

WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) – The leaders of the United States, Mexico, and Canada today pledged to develop “continental energy, including electricity generation and interconnection” across national borders and welcomed “increasing North American energy trade.” … Continue Reading

A Future of Clean Energy or an Oil and Gas Past

Lots at Stake as Energy Takes Poitical Spotlight

In 2004, President George Bush was overwhelmingly re-elected mainly due to his efforts in the Iraq War and for his “stated” pursuit of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. We all now know of those results and there affects on our nation’s economy.

Fast forward to the 2012 re-election campaign of President Obama and the election hopeful Mitt Romney, for the GOP. As former President Bush in 2008 ‘hung his hat’ on one premise, the Iraq War, so too should President Obama hang his on one premise – Clean and Renewable Energy.

Whether you like President Obama and his policies or not, we should all consider that he has relatively “cleaned-up” what Bush started. He’s ended Iraq (more or less), he’s winding down Afghanistan (hopefully more than less), Bin Laden and many of his cohorts are dead, and while ever so slowly, he has turned around the terrible economy with which he was left with to start.

But with all of this aside, the biggest decision for all Americans to make in the voting booth, as far as we should all be concerned regardless of everything else is President Obama’s position on Clean and Renewable Energy versus that of the GOP’s Oil and Gas. Everything else, jobs, the debt, military actions, race and religion, etc., will eventually take care of itself.

The main question for all Americans should be: Do I want a future renewable clean green energy economy or: Do I want an economy from past generations based on Oil and Gas… And as such, which Presidential candidate coming this November supports my vision of the future for energy…

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Renewables future left blowing in the wind

April 2, 2012 News 4 Comments

Ireland has the potential to produce three times the country’s energy needs using renewable resources.

Ambitious plans to capitalise on renewable opportunities in Ireland appear to have stalled and it remains to be seen if the Government can get things back on track, writes JOHN REYNOLDS

THE GOVERNMENT’S jobs action plan talks of building upon our Emerald Isle image and capitalising on opportunities, particularly in renewable energy, to “green” the economy. But has the dream faded? … Continue Reading

EBay And GOP Lawmaker Score Clean Energy Win In Utah

March 27, 2012 Green Movement No Comments

Ebay's Utah data center

by Mindy Lubber, reposted from Forbes

When eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, built its first-ever data center in South Jordan, Utah, it wanted to not only design and build the site to LEED Gold standards, it wanted to use clean energy to power much of the sprawling facility. This wasn’t simply part of eBay’s company-wide commitment to sustainable operations, it was a bottom-line business decision: sourcing renewable energy would stabilize and reduce long-term energy costs and minimize environmental impacts in a state that gets 94 percent of its electricity from coal. … Continue Reading

Obama Carbon Pollution Rules Boost Cleaner Power

March 27, 2012 News 2 Comments

By Daniel J. Weiss

The Washington Post reported this evening that the Obama administration plans to propose the first nationwide standard to reduce carbon dioxide pollution from new power plants:

“The Environmental Protection Agency will issue the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants as early as Tuesday, according to several people briefed on the proposal. The move could end the construction of new conventional coal-fired facilities in the United States.” … Continue Reading


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Is Solar Power Really too Expensive or Is that Just What Opponents Want You to Think

16 Apr 2012

A distributed solar model - even in snowy weather the sun still shines and the panels will collect much needed energy.

Recently I visited the west coast of the U.S. and being a resident of Florida for the past twenty-plus years I must say that I was totally exhilarated by what I saw in California, and totally disappointed with what I know to be the case in Florida. Over and over, I saw the rooftops of …

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Most Energy Efficient Place on Earth?

9 Apr 2012

A biodiesel tractor on Samso

Denmark’s Samso Island is a sort of paradise for renewable energy enthusiasts. The residents have created, in just over a decade, a 100 percent carbon neutral, self-sufficient community.The local Samso Energy Academy is an example for other areas around the globe who might want to create an economic environment that is good for the ecological …

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Nice Effort to Stem the Rising Price of Gas – $5 on the Horizon

4 Apr 2012

Gas Pump Colored Mean look

Here is a brief but possibly, substantial effort to assist in America’s benefit in the price of gas. An overt appeal for a serious effort NOT TO BUY GAS FROM THOSE COMPANIES WHO BUY FROM THE MIDDLE EAST.  Are you interested in stopping $5/gallon Gas?

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Turning Commercial Engines into Hybrids

3 Apr 2012

HPEV

 by Dana Blankenhorn – HPEV  is among the many companies trying to transform transport by making it more efficient. CEO Tim Hassett said his Hybrid Plugin Electric Vehicle has patents on a technique for using heat pipes to turn engine waste heat into electricity, which can then help power the vehicle. The electric motor acts …

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Walmart publishes 2012 global responsibility report

19 Apr 2012

Photo: Walmart

by Melissa Hincha-Ownby (MNN.com) On Monday, Walmart released its 2012 Global Responsibility Report (GRR). The 2012 report covers sustainability issues at the retail giant during fiscal year 2011, which began on February 1, 2011 and ended on January 30, 2012. Walmart is a large company with a strong global presence and that means that it …

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Coalition seeks to protect public lands, launches “Energy Democracy” sign-up

10 Apr 2012

ocotillo cactus parking

 By Ariele Johannson – (San Diego’s East County)–Driving through the southwestern deserts, I’ve long been impressed by the ocotillo, a cactus-like tree with straight branches angling upwards to the sun, ablaze with red blooms. This thorny desert tree is an apt metaphor for the ways different people view energy issues– especially proposed industrial solar and …

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Clean energy becoming a needed reality for the Great Lakes

6 Apr 2012

If the U.S. wants wind power, The Great Lakes are definitely windy.

Illinois and four other states came a step closer to offshore wind farms in the Great Lakes (New, April 1), and that is welcome news. Wind farms, once mocked by climate skeptics and opponents of renewable energy, are now a profitable way to generate clean electricity for our homes and businesses.

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Green Jobs In Kansas City: Profiling The People Who Make Up America’s 3.1 Million Green Jobs

29 Mar 2012

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There were 3.1 million green jobs around the U.S. in 2010, according to new figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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