Image via: Coulomb Technologies Sonoma County, CA is preparing to install 200 new ChargePoint electric vehicle charging stations throughout the county. The infrastructure is being installed in preparation of electric vehicles being sold like hot ... Sigue leyendo

WorldChanging TeamUnique visionary activist and astrologer Caroline Casey recently interviewed Alex Steffen on The Visionary Activist radio show, a live weekly radio program broadcast by KPFA... Sigue leyendo

Want to put solar panels on the house? Start saving… solar power is a great investment, but it is an investment… often a hefty one. If you’d like to get started with something a little less ambitious (but more affordable), you’ll find a numb... Sigue leyendo

Shanghai Daily. SAIC Motor, China’s largest automaker, plans to invest 12 billion yuan (US$1.76 billion) in the next three to five years to develop new-energy vehicles. The investment will divvied up between 41 projects under its blueprint for env... Sigue leyendo

What’s not to love about fireworks? Bright bursts of color, awe-inspiring flashes of light… asthma??!!! More and more people have been voicing their concerns about the health risks (from particle-filled smoke and lung-clogging antimony to heart-t... Sigue leyendo

The weekend is upon us and it’s great to have something cheerful to take with us to our leisure time. In my view, nothing more uplifting than a great green idea. So meet Plastic Plan. The project, still in paper, aims at ridding landfills of plast... Sigue leyendo

Ambassador Yukiya Amano of Japan addressed the Board of Governors following his successful bid to become the IAEA´s next Director General later this year. Sigue leyendo

This is a guest posting of Richard Duncan's latest "Olduvai" update, which is also featured in the Summer 2009 issue of The Social Contract Quarterly www.thesocialcontract.com. The essay explores energy use and population and as with previous upda... Sigue leyendo

In November 2007, Anne Lauvergeon, President and Chief Executive of French nuclear energy incompetents Areva boasted… In a world enjoying a growing energy thirst, we have in our hands nuclear energy: a formidable asset to build an energy sustainab... Sigue leyendo

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ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate sceptic groups, records show | Environment | guardian.co.uk Records show ExxonMobil gave hundreds of thousands of pounds to lobby groups that have published ‘misleading and inaccurate information’ about clima... Sigue leyendo

The Energy Collective conducted a live, interactive webcast in which energy experts and TEC blogger board members Jesse Jenkins of the Breakthrough Institute and WattHead blog and John C. Whitehead of Appalachian State University dug into the deta... Sigue leyendo

Leviathan Energy presents a new design concept While concentrated solar power is entering the commercialization phase, 'concentrated wind power' is still in the area of bold claims intended to attract research money. The idea of concentrated wind ... Sigue leyendo

White House (Obama) announces NEW efficient lighting standards...Climate Bill - WINNERS and losers..... Sigue leyendo

From the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES): The BNDES approves financing of R$ 555 million for Braskem to produce sugarcane ethylene and polyethylene Ethanol Chemistry Project is the first to be supported by the Bank The BNDES approved R$ 555.6 m... Sigue leyendo

The cross-party committee, set up earlier this year to scrutinise the work of the new Department of Energy & Climate Change, has been hearing evidence on the country’s energy sector over recent months. “The oil and gas industry operating on th... Sigue leyendo

Two and half years ago when I initiated this journal the universe of alternative fuels was an expanding universe. read more Sigue leyendo

Amazon carbon sink threatened by drought Science Centric (6 Mar 2009 15:44 GMT) - The Amazon is surprisingly sensitive to drought, according to new research conducted throughout the world’s largest tropical forest. The 30-year study, published to... Sigue leyendo

A new report claims that Canada’s recent CO2 cutting efforts have accomplished almost nothing. About two billion dollars have been assigned to the global warming measures so far.  The bulk of the funds (1.5 billion Canadian) were used for a climat... Sigue leyendo

This week has been dominated by questions of replication and of what standards are required to serve the interests of transparency and/or science (not necessarily the same thing). Possibly a recent example of replication would be helpful in showin... Sigue leyendo

Well, we'll probably still need roads, but maybe not gas. The term "air cars" sounds very futuristic, a la flying cars and auto-lace tennis shoes. But while the technology isn't anything too new (basically stored compressed air is gradually releas... Sigue leyendo

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An item of interest to ethanol producers and other supporters of ethanol is this announcement by EPA, as further clarified by this announcement by EERE:The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on November 17 that the 2009 renewable... Sigue leyendo

If you don't know who Michael Pollan is google him. Then read his books, specifically his most recent, An Omnivores Dilemma and In Defense of Food.If you're not a book reader, you should be. But if you want the abbreviated version of these books a... Sigue leyendo

Governor Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey today announced his plan to triple the state’s offshore wind goal.    At the same time, the Gov. Corzine highlighted last week’s selection of Garden State Offshore Energy (GSOE) as the receipient of a grant in... Sigue leyendo

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory, along with partners at Microcontinuum Inc. (Cambridge, MA) and Patrick Pinhero of the University of Missouri, are developing a novel way to collect energy from the sun with a technology tha... Sigue leyendo

We need a massive increase in electricity generated from alternative energy.Here's Al Gore's vision:Here's one way to achieve 100% Carbon Free ElectricityThoughts? Sigue leyendo

WIND ENERGY: Billionaire Tom Golisano says his new company will keep more money in host townsBy Michael Regan/reganm@gnnewspaper.comAmid references to his hockey team and jokes that fired up the ne... Sigue leyendo

As a part of our continued site upgrades, we are now offering 4 new services: daily peak oil news feeds, the ability to submit peak oil articles (with HTML), a submission form for link exchanges a... Sigue leyendo