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New Mexico to Reduce CO2 Emissions 25% Below 1990 Levels

Photo: StuSeeger , Flickr, CC In a surprising turn, New Mexico may have just become the state with the leading clean energy plan — the state’s Environmental Improvement Board has just approved a plan that would bring its carbon emissions 25% below 1990 levels by 2020. That’s even better than California’s target . This is what the plan looks like: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Top 10 U.S. States for Clean Energy Leadership

Image: Clean Edge Who Has the Best Mix of Technology, Policy and Capital? Clean Edge , a research and advisory firm operating in the cleantech sector, has compiled a top 10 of the U.S. states showing the most “clean energy leadership” based on 80 different state-level indicators and more than 4,000 public and private data points across all 50 states. This isn’t just about which state has the biggest share of its energy produced by clean sources, or which state built the most clean energy capacity in the past year. They also take into account t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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EcoFactor Helps Customer Discover Botched Home Improvement Project

Image via EcoFactor EcoFactor is an energy management software start-up that recently won a Cleantech Open award. It aggregates data abut your home’s energy use and gives a grade for each zone of the house. The grade reflects how sealed a building is and its energy efficiency levels. While the grade is based on the home, it of course reflects on the owner and we know there are some people who just have to be straight A students. Luckily, EcoFactor also likes straight A students. So when one efficiency-minded customer called in fro… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What’s Next for Climate? How About Dumping Billions into Cleantech R&D?

Photo: Apteva , Wikimedia, CC With climate policy watchers still reeling the one-two punch of failed climate legislation and an insurgent new class in Congress that dismisses global warming , the path forward for greens, activists, and clean energy proponents remains unclear. As

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What’s Next for Climate? How About Dumping Billions into Cleantech R&D?