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DECC Calculator lets citizens design energy infrastructure

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(Source: BusinessGreen) Andrew Charlesworth, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 14:00:00 You can pretend you’re Chris Huhne for an hour As part of today’s energy announcements, DECC has published the 2050 Calculator, an online modeling tool which enables citizens to
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Oil spewing from well near La. marsh

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(Source: MSNBC.com: Environment - References: The Green Life) Adding insult to the Gulf's injury, an oil wellhead ruptured and is spewing oil near a Louisiana marsh area, officials said Tuesday. Louisiana - United States - Wellhead - Oil - Energy
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Book Review: Off The Grid By Nick Rosen.

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(Source: The Good Human - References: sustainablog) I just finished reading an advance copy of Nick Rosen’s new book Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America, and wanted to give you guys a quick review of it. In the book, Brit
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New York's Solar Thermal Plans

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(Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com - References: Renewable Energy Law Blog) By unveiling a solar heating and cooling programme that could create 25,000 new green jobs, generate US$2.6 billion in revenue and see 2 GW of new solar thermal capacity installed in the state over the next decade, New York has revealed its ambition
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Tiny Nuclear Company Leads American Resurgence

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(Source: Energy and Capital - References: Green Chip Stocks,Green Chip Stocks) I told you it would happen again, and it did. I’ve been pounding the table about this tiny nuclear company for awhile... And for the third time since the beginning of the year, its shares have doubled. And it’s no accident...
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Crafting Organizations as Sustainable Human Systems

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(Source: Triple Pundit - References: Environmental Leader) The following is a guest post by our friends at Saybrook University’s Organizational Systems Program (a 3p sponsor) – designed for students who want to understand the nature of organizations, collaborative practices, and transformative
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Tamino’s Trick: Mann Bites Dog

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(Source: Climate Audit) Self-described “Hansen bulldog” Tamino, writing at NASA’s realclimate blog hosted by Hansen’s other bulldog (Gavin), wrote: As another example, Montford makes the claim that if you eliminate just two of the proxies used for the
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EPA sticker values for 2011 Volt likely to be interim, updated in 2012-13

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(Source: AutoblogGreen) Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Chevrolet, GM, Plug In Conference Now that we know the price tag of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, the car's last big secret is what will be on the EPA mileage sticker. We had a chance to talk with vehicle line director Tony
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Liquid Phase Methanol Process Licensed to Biofuel Producer

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(Source: Green Car Congress) The Liquid Phase Methanol (LPMEOH) Process, funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and developed in collaboration with Air Products and Chemicals Inc., has been licensed to Woodland Biofuel Inc., which intends to use the technology to develop a
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Kitegen had to Abandon Another Site But Its 3 Megawatt Prototype at Sommariva Perno Should be Flying in August 2010

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(Source: Next Big Future) Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Kitegen is a system for generating wind power from kites. It has faced a lot of bureaucratic and fund raising intrigue in
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Research says big snow storms not inconsistent with — and may be ampliflied by — a warming planet

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(Source: Climate Progress) Converging Weather Patterns Caused Last Winter’s Huge Snows A Warming World Can Still See Severe Storms That’s the headline on the news release from the Earth Institute at Columbia University for a new GRL study, “Northern
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Residential Energy Storage Charges Up in California

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(Source: Matter Network) by David Link One significant trend in the electric utility market that is beginning to gather momentum is residential energy storage (RES). Like many renewable initiatives, California is the trailblazing state for RES. In 2006, Governor
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New Perspectives on the Energy Return on (Energy) Investment (EROI) of Corn Ethanol: Part 1 of 2

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(Source: The Oil Drum) The following is the first of two posts based on a recent paper published under the same title in the journal Environment, Development, and Sustainability. The paper is divided into five sections, and to keep each post succinct, we have divided the
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Arizona Public Service Signs PPA With Perrin Ranch Wind

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(Source: North American Windpower - References: Environmental Leader) Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) has entered into a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) Perrin Ranch Wind LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, [...]
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Marc Faber: Sit Still, This Is Going to Hurt

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(Source: Fool.com Headlines - References: Climateer Investing) Marc Faber on the economy.
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Carbon policies will drive heavy industry out of UK, warns report

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(Source: BusinessGreen - References: Solve Climate Chronicles,Solve Climate Chronicles) Andrew Charlesworth, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 07:00:00 Call to Government to decarbonise in an “economically efficient” way Rising energy prices and the Government’s climate change policies will drive energy intensive industries
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Climate Craziness of the Week: Grist uses Scientific American to highlight voluntary human extinction and GW fears

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(Source: Watts Up With That?) I used to read Scientific American with interest and wonder. My favorite column was The Amateur Scientist because it had so many neat experiments and projects. Now, it is mostly with sadness and incredulity that I occasionally glance at it …
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Solarbuzz: US Solar Market To Grow Tenfold by 2014

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(Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com - References: Solve Climate Chronicles,Solve Climate Chronicles) Despite a challenging domestic economic environment, the U.S. solar market grew 36% in 2009, according to the United States PV Market 2010 from Solarbuzz. This growth was, however, not nearly as strong as the region's 62% growth in 2008. On a global
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Walmart and the Sustainability Index: One Year Later

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(Source: Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward - References: Earth2Tech) It’s been exactly a year since Walmart’s historic launch of a Sustainability Index and other measures to assess suppliers and products and, remarkably, the sun still rises in the East and sets in the West. As I stated in my analysis that day —
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On the Death of the Climate Bill

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(Source: Clean Edge - References: WattHead,sustainablog,R-Squared Energy Blog)
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