By Tom Schueneman •
November 12, 2008
The University of Phoenix, in partnership with local Phoenix, Arizona energy provider Salt River Project (SRP), announced yesterday that they will make the largest purchase of renewable energy tax certificates in Arizona history.
The University will buy 46.5 million kilowatt-hours of renewable energy credits, equivalent to all of its Phoenix campus’ annual consumption and 27% of its more than 200 campuses across the county. It is also enough power to keep the lights, computers, and TVs going in 3,800 American homes for a year or removing the carbon emissions of 5,280 cars.
University of Phoenix is purchasing the credits from the Hopkins Ridge Wind Facility in Washington state through SRP’s EarthWise program.
As a result of the purchase, the University of Phoenix is ranked 7th on the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Top 20 College & University Partner List“.
By Maria Surma Manka •
October 31, 2007
Renewable energy is big, big, big: Josh just wrote about the world’s largest wind farm possibly going up in South Dakota (yahoo!), California could see the world’s largest solar power plant, and now Singapore is in the foray with landing the largest solar manufacturing facility the world’s ever seen.
A Norwegian company called Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) will build the complex, which will be completed in different stages to incorporate wafer,
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By Philip Proefrock •
August 7, 2007
Last week I wrote an article titled "Real Renewable Energy vs. Renewable Energy Credits" where I looked at the issue of renewable energy credits (RECs) versus direct purchase of renewable energy. (For some followup to that story, a podcast of the WDET radio program ‘Detroit Today’ where the issue of the local REC program was discussed is now online. In addition to discussing the DTE Greencurrents program, the [...]
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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Carbonfund.org is a nonprofit organization that educates the public about the impacts of global warming. They also promote solutions by selling low-cost carbon offsets that individuals, businesses, and organizations can purchase to reduce their carbon footprint.
When a customer buys a carbon offset, Carbonfund.org purchases and then retires the carbon, taking it out of circulation.
Eric Carlson is the Executive Director of Carbonfund.org, and co-founded the company with his wife,
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By Ryan Thibodaux •
February 13, 2007
Associated PressFor those of us who delve simultaneously into the world of green and the world of politics, finding reasons to heap praise on politicians (let alone their policy positions) is an unusual occurrence. We ridicule them for their voting records, we deride the "environmentalists" among them who own fleets of Hummers, and we groan in agony at their latest attempts at green legislation.
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