The campaign is working to get the ad aired on the next 20/20. The ad details how massive ad dollars spent by oil and coal companies is the key reason America hasn’t switched to cleaner renewable energy sources. Help the We Campaign get this advertisement aired!
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This Saturday, October 4th, in Atlanta the Georgia Solar Energy Association is sponsoring the 2008 Georgia Solar Tour. The event features tours of local buildings that have successfully implemented solar power in an effort to raise awareness about alternative energy. They also want to educate folks about the Georgia Clean Energy Property Tax Credit.
Several Atlanta residences are participating in the event, showing off how their solar setups, energy efficiency, and other sustainable technologies are helping them reduce their monthly utility bills and tackle climate change. Here are just a few of the 26 sites the tour is hitting up!
At a campaign stop, Sen. Barack Obama said certain spending programs are critical components of an economic recovery, and should not be abandoned by any means.
New Jersey’s Rutgers University recently broke ground for a seven-acre solar energy farm on campus. Once completed, the installation would be the largest solar energy facility on any college in the U.S. (although Rutgers has competition there: Florida’s Gulf Coast University is eyeing a larger, 16-acre solar farm).
The solar farm is expected to generate 1.4 megawatts of electricity, enough to meet about 10 percent of Rutgers’ Livingston Campus (located in Piscataway) energy demands. By replacing “regular” electricity with solar power, the university also expects to reduce its annual carbon dioxide emissions by 1,200-plus tons.
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities is expected to vote next week on a $19 million plan to generate 350 megawatts of electricity with nearly 300 new wind turbines to be installed at various offshore locations.
One part of Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s Energy Master Plan for the state, the wind turbine plan could make New Jersey the first state in the U.S. to get energy from offshore wind (though that distinction could still go to Delaware, which OK’d a similar plan this summer), according to an article in NorthJersey.com. Once installed, the offshore turbines could provide enough energy for half the homes in North Jersey, the article stated.
Wow, how’s this for “Straight Talk”? (And it’s not coming from the presidential candidates.) GE Energy chief John Krenecki is warning Congress that it better get serious and extend tax credits for renewable energy development … or face the consequences.
And what consequences would those be? In the Environmental Capital blog at the Wall Street Journal, Krenecki says Congress’ foot-dragging is risking a “collapse” of the U.S. wind industry. That could mean not only a major setback in the push for energy independence and the loss of thousands of jobs, but the loss of home-based corporate investments as well.
One of the largest solar power systems in Washington, D.C. was inaugurated atop the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Forrestal Building today (9-9-08). Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman, shown here, energized the system for the first time, saying:
“The significance of this solar array is both practical and symbolic–it improves the way the Department consumes energy and it is a symbol of America’s commitment to using the best available new technologies to confront the energy challenges we face today and will face tomorrow,”
What a great idea: incorporating solar energy not only into windows and roofs, but into the building blocks of structures themselves … as in bricks. The solar-powered brick, which has a solar cell embedded inside it, could be used to provide decorative or safety lighting, or even illuminate rural airplane runways, according to San Antonio-based distributor Sunrise Solar. Equally cool: you can order bricks [...]
Amid the distractions of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, Sarah Palin surprises, Hurricane Gustav and beyond sits a vitally important and sadly too-neglected news item: investments in new projects for renewable energy are suffering because Congress hasn’t yet found a way to extend tax credits for such efforts.
The renewable energy tax credits for wind, solar and other clean energies is set to expire on Dec. 31.
The delay in extending those credits is hindering plans for new renewable energy projects. A study by Navigant Consulting, for example, warns that letting the tax credits expire could jeopardize $19 billion in renewables investment, as well as threaten 112,000 jobs in the clean-energy sector.
The UNEP has recommended that fossil fuel subsidies should be scrapped, and that in doing so could not only decrease the amount of greenhouse gases, but also give a “not insignificant boost to the global economy.”
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