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Canadian Government Partnered With Polluting Industry to Fight US Climate Action

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Canadian Government Partnered With Polluting Industry to Fight US Climate Action

photo: Diane Worth / Creative Commons Considering the considerable official enthusiasm for the highly polluting and carbon intensive Alberta tar sands, this really isn’t so surprising: According to correspondence obtained by the Pembina Institute , the Canadian Government is “pursuing an orchestrated strategy to undermine US effort to combat climate change” and partnered with polluters to fight US effort to reduce emissions from high-carb… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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China Overtakes US as Most Attractive Country for Renewable Energy For First Time

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on China Overtakes US as Most Attractive Country for Renewable Energy For First Time

photo: Charles Henry / Creative Commons Steven Chu just said now is the US’ Sputnik moment for clean technology, and here’s some independent confirmation of that: Ernst & Young has just released a new Country Attractiveness Inde… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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UK’s First Utility-Scale Solar Power Plant Gets Go Ahead

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on UK’s First Utility-Scale Solar Power Plant Gets Go Ahead

Image credit: Ecotricity Our commenters may have mixed feelings about Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince’s fancy electric sports car , but it is hard to deny that this man has done more than most to support renewable energy. When I wrote about Ecotricity’s planned utility-scale solar plants in rainy-old England , the company was claiming it could have the project up and running by the end of the year. But TreeHugger sees a lot of promi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Sun Rises on a Solar-Powered Mosque in Turkey

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on The Sun Rises on a Solar-Powered Mosque in Turkey

The village mosque in Büyükeceli is now powered by solar panels. Photo: Alper Tunga Çatal for Greenpeace . When residents of the Turkish village of Büyükeceli decided to install a set of solar panels to demonstrate how renewable energy could be a viable alternative to the proposed nuclear power plant they are fighting, they first thought to use t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Solar Delivers Much More than Electricity – Renewables as Branding Tool

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Solar Delivers Much More than Electricity – Renewables as Branding Tool

Image credit: Solar Tech South / Chapel Hill Tire As I write this post, I’m waiting for my annual car inspection. I’m staring at a flat-screen monitor that communicates just how much power is being channeled down from the 16.4kw PV array on the roof to help power the inspection. It’s just one more example of why asking when solar will reach grid parity is at least partially missing the point . Done right, for bu… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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California Approves New Renewable Energy Target: 33% by 2010 – Let’s Hope It Stands Past November

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on California Approves New Renewable Energy Target: 33% by 2010 – Let’s Hope It Stands Past November

photo: Port of San Diego via flickr Seemingly on cue, just as a Congressional hearing is told that more Asian nations than China are soon going to be beating out the United States on renewable energy without stronger legislation, California regulators have voted to increase the state’s renewable energy standard to 33% by 2020. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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China Beat US in Offshore Wind, Europe Still Trounces Everyone Else in Solar Power

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Adam Tinworth via flickr Two new illustrations about how the US has stiff competition around the world in renewable energy: New York Times reports on how China has beaten the United States in building the first major offshore wind farm outside of Europe;

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Biofuels Falling Well Short of Green Standards in UK

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Pete Birkinshaw via flickr Now that we’ve got some distance from the ‘biofuels are going to save us, oh wait they’re going to kill everything else’ hysteria of a couple years back and some sane skepticism has emerged, how well are we doing? As the BBC reports, in the UK at least it’s a mix bag: Volume targets are being met, but some fuel suppliers are falling “well short” of their own green standards…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Making the Global Shift to Renewable Energy

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Lollie-Pop /Flickr As fossil fuel prices rise, as oil insecurity deepens, and as concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. The old energy economy, fueled by oil , coal , and natural gas , is being replaced by one powered by

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Australian School Ditches Bottled Water, While Another Becomes First Carbon Neutral School

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Claudia Saunders tests water bubbler. Photo: Marina Neil. Sydney Morning Herald While no longer breaking news, the endeavours of students and staff at two different Australian schools still merits attention. One school went bottled water free, whilst another became what they believe is the world’s first Carbon Neutral School. In the first instance, a student-led initiative at Monte Santʼ Angelo Mercy College, in North Sydney will see the school install six wa… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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