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Milan Furniture Fair 2011 - Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant by Martà Guixé
Once again Milan Design Week is here, and like most years, it is the small independent events that grab our attention. Like the Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant, that
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California's New Renewable Energy Standard Set at 33% by 2020
California's new renewable energy standard, which requires that utilities purchase 33% clean energy by 2020, is now the highest in the nation. California Governor Jerry Brown signed the mandate into law today,
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Chart of US Energy Use Reveals Herculean Effort Needed to Ditch Oil, Coal
Many of you are roughly aware of what our nation's energy mix looks like, though different charts tell different tales. If you look at
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Would You Trade the Endangered Species Act for a Clean Energy Revolution?
We need to do something. Thus far, the legislative strategy that Democrats have used to advance climate policy has been disastrous. Where other major economies around the world are either passing laws to reign in
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Obama's Energy Speech: Cut Oil Imports, Keep on Fracking, and Fire Up the Nuke Plants
President Obama just wrapped up his speech on energy, and it played out largely as expected -- he called for more clean energy, electric cars, and high speed rail. He assured us all that nuclear power was still safe and still part
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Even More People Upset by Clean Energy's Ugliness
By now, we should all be fully aware of the breathtaking scale that clean energy NIMBY-ness can take one: most notably, people don't like the way wind turbines look or the way wind turbines sound. Solar has stayed pretty safe from NIMBY concerns --
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America: We're Number 3!
Photo Credit: laverrue via Flickr/CC BY In Cleantech, Anyhow Sort of has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? Don't worry, the US is still the world's number one economic superpower -- though some analysts say we'll be taking a backseat to China in coming
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Coalition that Defeated Prop 23 Reunites to Push for Clean Energy, Green Jobs
The beating back of Prop 23 -- the oil company-sponsored bid to repeal California's trailblazing climate law -- was one of the few bright spots for environmentally-minded folks in last year's midterm elections. A
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A Dirty Power Transmission Line Comes to Its End
"I'm absolutely affected by the air quality. My house is downwind of this coal plant, as is the Shenandoah National Park. This should be a pristine area, but the air quality is so poor that there are often health alerts
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Spotlight on Two of Canada's Greenest Breweries
A lot of people were excited to read about Magic Hat fueling the brewing process with fuel produced by its own waste, and a reader wrote in to share another brewery that has green merits also worth highlighting: British Columbia-based Driftwood
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Will Rising Gas Prices in Libya be a Boon to Clean Energy?
Over at the Atlantic, Adam Werbach writes that Libya's revolution offers a "second chance for clean energy". Now, I wasn't aware that clean energy had previously had but a single chance it evidently blew, but the story is otherwise worth keeping in
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Magic Hat Fuels Brewing Process With Beer Waste
There's a lot that breweries can do—and are doing—to green their facilities. Some are easy, anyone-can-do-this steps like sending spent grains to local farmers. Others are innovative tricks that no one else has tried before.
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Global Investments In Clean Energy to Hit $240 Billion in 2011
Who's missing from the lede of this Reuters story? It begins: "Brazil, China and India are expected to fuel global investments in clean energy in 2011 that are expected to reach $240 billion, the head of a United
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Our High Speed Rail Plan Should Look More Like China's
I don't want to perpetuate the US vs. China who-will-be-the-economic-superpower narrative that's already rampant in our press enough these days, so let's frame this one from another, even simpler angle -- China
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Famed Futurist: "We Can Meet All Our Energy Needs from Solar in 20 Years"
Ray Kurzweil is arguably the world's most famous futurist. He laid out the law of accelerating returns, which states that technology improves at exponential rates, and made a string of dead-on predictions about computing
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Campbell Soup Announces 9.8MW Solar PPA for Ohio Factory
Campbell Soup Company will soon be sourcing about 15 percent of the energy used at its factory in Napoleon, Ohio (the company's largest) from solar power generated by a just-announced power purchase agreement (PPA) and land lease
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Cape Wind CEO Jim Gordon on What Comes Next For Massachusetts' First Offshore Wind Farm (Video)
Interview with Jim Gordon, CEO of Cape Wind The famed Cape Wind offshore wind project has finally been granted a permit to begin construction, after a decade-long battle with the company and clean energy advocates on one side, and well-funded fossil
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US Gov Announces $50.5 Million Offshore Wind Plan
And the federal invest-a-thon in clean technologies continues -- first a smidgen for solar, then a huge boost for high speed rail, and now, a decent investment in offshore wind. The Obama administration
