By Gavin Hudson •
March 2, 2008
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Dear Readers,
This week, from March 3-10, we’ll be examining renewable energy around the world.
African American community leader Bertha Calloway once said, “we cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
Likewise, we cannot direct the sun, the tides, or ground energy; and these are only a few of the many options for clean, renewable energy.
However, by adjusting our sails we can benefit from energy from all of these untamable forces of nature.
By Timothy B. Hurst •
February 29, 2008
Wind turbines and solar photovoltaic have become the iconic symbols of clean energy and environmental consciousness. But what about the other less ’sexy’ forms of clean energy? Well, of course using less energy is the cleanest form to use, and it is usually the most cost-effective. But for people who want to increase the uptake of energy from clean sources, it may be more difficult. Unfortunately, not everyone has a strong enough wind or solar resource to make those investments [...]
By Smart HomeOwner •
August 21, 2007
A growing number of neighborhoods make saving energy a community effort
One of the latest trends in homebuilding is the creation of entire neighborhoods or communities of green, energy-efficient homes. The premise behind these energy-efficient communities, which are springing up all over the country, is simple: there’s power in numbers – or, rather, a greater opportunity to reduce energy consumption and improve resource management when dozens, or perhaps hundreds, of homes in a neighborhood incorporate
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A recent study found that the clean energy industry is the fastest-growing sector in Massachusetts, easily beating out behemoths like financial services, healthcare, and communications.
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Census was published by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, a quasi-public agency that runs a renewable energy trust fund of green power projects. The study found that clean energy industry had a 26 percent increase in jobs and now accounts for more than 14,000 jobs in
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By Gavin Hudson •
August 3, 2007
Editor’s note: We had a technical glitch earlier this week, and some posts got published before they were supposed to. Gavin’s was one of them — by the time we’d discovered it, though, it had already gotten out to several social bookmarking sites. We didn’t, however, want it buried immediately…
Clean, renewable energy is sweeping the country like a wave, and now
for the individual consumer, it’s “surf’s up!” Power your home with
100% renewable energy for
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Today the U.S. House is likely to vote on the Udall-Platts Amendment to the energy bill. This legislation would require 15 percent of our nation’s electricity to come from renewable sources by the year 2020. It’s high time the federal government catch up to so many states that already have implemented 21st century policies like this one.
But in addition to broad state and federal programs, consumers can
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Global warming concerns, government policies, and money-saving efficiency benefits have spurred clean energy systems to spring up all over the world. But a giant wind farm in the middle-of-nowhere North Dakota doesn’t do much good if there aren’t transmission lines to connect the power with the more populated areas that need it.
Europeans are facing similar distribution and reliability issues with their burgeoning renewable energy growth, and some see a continent-wide grid as
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A couple of my friends have recently asked about the new renewable energy credit program that our local electricity utility, DTE Energy, is now offering. One friend asked me about it directly, and another raised the question on the state mailing list for the o2 Network. There was an interesting discussion about the topic on the 02 list, and I’ve included some of the information that other people shared on
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According to the American Wind Energy Association, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently told wind power supporters that a House vote on a national renewable portfolio standard (RPS) was likely to happen the week of July 30.
A renewable portfolio standard – also called a renewable energy standard – is a measure requiring utilities to get a certain amount of their power from renewable sources by a particular time.
Last month in
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The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy recently released an energy efficiency scorecard for the states. In it, the ACEEE considered state-level policies, programs, and technologies and ranked the 50 states and the District of Columbia in eight categories:
- Spending on Utility and Public Benefits Energy Efficiency Programs
- Energy Efficiency Resource Standards
- Combined Heat and Power
- Building Energy Codes
- Transportation Policies
- Appliance and Equipment Efficiency Standards
- Tax Incentives
- State Lead by Example and Research
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