CPUC says Smart Meters are Accurate
Updated: 2010-09-03 00:07:34
The devices are working properly, but PG&E's customer service isn't, according to an independent audit. Continue reading »
Passive Building of the Week: Lodenareal Housing
Updated: 2010-09-02 22:30:00Michael Eliason and Aaron Yankauskas, of Brute Force Collaborative, have a great case-study up on a recently completed 'Passivhaus' housing project in the Lodenareal complex in Innsbruck, AustriaDeveloped by Neue Heimat Tirol and designed by architek...Big Green Boxes: A Hub-and-Spoke Model for City Farming
Updated: 2010-09-02 21:00:00Grist has a new series of interviews up on people who are working to change America's food system in inspiring ways. Yesterday they posted an interview with Gene Fredericks that is worth a read; it introduces Fredericks's new venture: Big Green Boxes...Hyundai To Sell Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars In 2012
Updated: 2010-09-02 20:31:22In a bid to one-up their competition, Hyundai has announced that they will sell hydrogen fuel cell cars starting in 2012 three years before Toyota, Honda and the rest of the competition. Seeing that renewable energy is becoming decidedly cheaper ...In California, Large and Small Generators Tussle Over Grid Rules
Updated: 2010-09-02 20:02:43To help California reach its renewable portfolio standard goals, The California Independent System Operator (the ISO) may be aggravating a rivalry between large- and small-scale renewable energy producers.The Small Generator Interconnection Procedure...Miami's Only LEED Gold Tower Can Withstand 300mph Winds!
Updated: 2010-09-02 19:50:52Read the rest of Miami's Only LEED Gold Tower Can Withstand 300mph Winds!http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feedPermalink Add todel.icio.us diggPo...America's First Zero Energy School to Open This Month
Updated: 2010-09-02 19:23:28Richardsville Elementary, a new LEED Platinum School in Kentucky, is getting extra credit by being the first zero energy school in the nation! Opening this month to much anticipation, the facility is a cornucopia of green building strategies and effi...Greenhouse Protection Racket — An Update
Updated: 2010-09-02 16:57:59Last week, the Obama Administration filed a brief on behalf of industry petitioners urging the Supreme Court to vacate an appeals court decision (State of Connecticut et al. v. American Electric Power et al.) that would allow States and private parties to sue coal-burning electric utilities for their…Women Move Corporations Green
Updated: 2010-09-02 15:27:16At the Pasadena Convention Center, the Women in Green Forum is bringing together professional women (and yes, a few men) from various industries and functions to discuss topics from finance to fashion. Yesterday afternoon, women with sustainability l...The Biggest Green Market? Seven Reasons Why It's Green IT
Updated: 2010-09-02 12:08:33Over the past few weeks, I've had a number of meetings with engineers, executives and investors and such, and I keep coming away with the same conclusion.The fastest-growing and arguably most attractive segment in alternative energy and energy effici...Leaked Study on Peak Oil Warns of Severe Global Energy Crisis
Updated: 2010-09-02 07:38:18Join the forum discussion on this postThis week a study on peak oil by a German military think tank was leaked on the Internet. The document shows that the German government is closely studying the issue of peak oil, and is aware of the potential fo...Gorgeous Green Tree Home Takes Root in Bulgaria
Updated: 2010-09-02 06:00:55Read the rest of Gorgeous Green Tree Home Takes Root in Bulgariahttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feedPermalink Add todel.icio.us diggPost tags: ...Peace Corps to Start Clean Energy Program in the Americas
Updated: 2010-09-02 05:30:36Since 1961 when President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps by executive order, thousands of volunteers have traveled to developing countries to implement programs that range from AIDS education to information technology and environmental p...Electric Cars get A+ from EPA
Updated: 2010-09-02 05:28:00By John Addison (9/2/10 from original post at Clean Fleet Report) New Proposed Stickers When you go shopping for a new car it is useful to see a quick summary of fuel economy, how much you might save in fuel over 5 years, and the price. Now that pe...Amazing Mineral House is a Multi-Faceted Micro Home in Japan
Updated: 2010-09-01 23:40:36Read the rest of Amazing Mineral House is a Multi-Faceted Micro Home in Japanhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feedPermalink Add todel.icio.us di...Back on the Radar: Chesapeake Energy
Updated: 2010-09-01 22:50:29The Manual of Ideas submits:Chesapeake Energy (CHK) has for some time been synonymous with the vast untapped opportunity in U.S. onshore natural gas shale plays. As gas prices have remained depressed relative to oil prices longer than most expected, ...The Uneven Energy Playing Field and the Spindoctors who Ignore it
Updated: 2010-09-01 21:48:56There has been a recent surge in articles from fossil-fuel friendly sources pointing to the inequity of tax credits and government subsidies being directed to the renewable energy sector. The latest is by Alan Caruba writing on the industry-backed C...Dark Silicon' Could Boost Smartphone Battery Life 11 X
Updated: 2010-09-01 20:49:22It may sound like a mineral used in an evil scientist's death ray, but dark silicon' actually refers to underused transistors found in modern microprocessors and scientists believe that this resource can be tapped to improve the batteries of e...Climate Skeptic - Now with Less Skepticism!: Lomborg Changes Tune
Updated: 2010-09-01 20:45:00For those who like me missed the news on Monday: the world's most well known climate change skeptic has done a dramatic about face.Bjorn Lomborg's 1998 book The Skeptical Environmentalist has been a pillar for critics of climate science...2010 Is Five-Alarm Tipping Point of Polar Ice Cap Melting Due to Global Warming
Updated: 2010-09-01 20:00:00
Corbett Kroehler Global Warming Meet The Experts About Keyboard Culture Become KBC Expert KBC Home Movies Podcasts News Media Radio Home of Global Warming About Corbett Kroehler Expert Login Corbett Kroehler Global warming , environmental sustainability , voter apathy and their common solutions Florida is the front line in the battle against rising seas . Corbett has broad knowledge of environmental issues but his top priority is raising awareness about the risks to Florida from the climate . crisis About Corbett Kroehler Contact Corbett Kroehler C orbett's Website Links www.newsolarparadigm.com www.MisterSustainable.com www.SaveNativeFlorida.org Keyboard Culture Expert Biographies About Dr . Robert Bocknek About Kathryn Brinkley About Ken Blanchard About John Bradshaw About ColetteRecurve Gets New CEO, Hones Its Strategy
Updated: 2010-09-01 19:53:02Recurve, the energy efficiency retrofitter and software developer, is getting a retrofit itself.The company has hired Andy Leventhal as its new CEO, replacing Pratap Mukherjee. Leventhal co-founded Planet Metrics, a carbon accounting company, in 2007...The Future of Sustainable Paint Manufacturing
Updated: 2010-09-01 19:37:15You can have a Model T in any color, as long as it's black. The automotive world has come a long way since Henry Ford made this statement while introducing the revolutionary Model T Ford in 1908. Today, paint color and quality both play major r...Amazing Mineral House is a Mult-Faceted Micro Home in Japan
Updated: 2010-09-01 19:19:36Read the rest of Amazing Mineral House is a Mult-Faceted Micro Home in Japanhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feedPermalink Add todel.icio.us dig...EPA hydrofracking hearing rescheduled for Binghamton
Updated: 2010-08-31 22:38:46The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rescheduled its hearing for testimony on natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking. Last month, a meeting scheduled in at the University at Binghamton was cancelled because of concerns over large crowds drawn by what has turned into a contentious environmental health issue. An attempt to shift the meeting to Syracuse at [...]A Tale of Two Coasts: The East Roasts While the West Shivers
Updated: 2010-08-31 22:06:53
Both San Francisco and Washington D.C. had record temperatures in July. They just happened to be at opposite ends of the thermometer. Continue reading »Wyoming toughens hydrofrack rules
Updated: 2010-08-31 15:12:49As New York State considers rules to control natural gas hydrofracking, which relies on a high-pressure blend of chemicals, sand and water to break up gas-bearing rocks underground, another state where hydrorfracking has been happening is requiring drilling companies to disclose specific chemicals on a well-by-well basis. The new rules, which water protection groups says are [...]Domestic Workers and Climate Change
Updated: 2010-08-31 14:32:11At 11:00am this morning, Gov. David Paterson will sign the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in New York City. This represents a real accomplishment. Here’s what Domestic Workers United says on its website about their battle to able to organize for their rights as workers: “The moment is finally here. Governor Paterson will indeed be signing [...]US EPA Official Says "No on 23"
Updated: 2010-08-31 00:56:46
U.S. EPA Administrator Jared Blumenfeld is just the latest official to speak out against Proposition 23. Continue reading »Obama’s EPA: School Marms R Us
Updated: 2010-08-30 22:12:26The Obama Administration’s EPA and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NTSHA) are proposing new rules “labeling each passenger car with a government letter grade from A to D based on its fuel efficiency and emissions,” the Wall Street Journal reports. The…IPCC report card
Updated: 2010-08-30 19:59:37Update: Nature has just published a thoughtful commentary on the report The Inter-Academy Council report on the processes and governance of the IPCC is now available. It appears mostly sensible and has a lot of useful things to say about improving IPCC processes – from suggesting a new Executive to be able to speak for IPCC [...]Cow Power Not Cutting It
Updated: 2010-08-30 05:35:32
Technology to combat one kind of pollution ends up causing another. Continue reading »Feds to States on Global Warming Suit: Back Off
Updated: 2010-08-27 17:10:31
The tug-of-war continues over who has the right to regulate carbon emissions. Continue reading »Pennsylvania makes tougher rules for gas drilling water pollution
Updated: 2010-08-26 21:05:46As the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation weighs new rules to regulate natural gas drilling using hydrofracking _ which uses a high-pressure blend of chemicals, sand and water to break up underground gas-bearing rocks _ the state of Pennsylvania yesterday announced tougher rules to control polluted water that is created as part of [...]News Flash: Climate Change Isn’t Going Away, and Neither Are We
Updated: 2010-08-26 20:56:01
Environmental groups, renewable energy businesses, and grassroots activists rallied last week outside the federal building in Albany calling on Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to push for Senate action on a climate change bill this year.
The event, called “Rethink, Refuel: Offshore Drilling and Climate Change,” drew connections between the BP oil catastrophe (“spill” is too weak [...]Another Mountain Critter Confronts Climate Change
Updated: 2010-08-25 02:32:18
A rocky future for "Rocky?" Wildlife advocates move to protect a California flying squirrel from climate change. Continue reading »National Security Risks of Biofuel Mandates — Corrected*
Updated: 2010-08-25 00:06:18
Those amazing Idsos who run the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change review a paper recently published in AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment by Mulder et al. (2010), who assess the energy return on…Forecasting
Updated: 2010-08-23 16:34:42One of the defenses often used by climate modelers against charges that climate is simple to complex to model accurately is that “they do it all the time in finance and economics.” This comes today from Megan McArdle on economic forecasting: I find this pretty underwhelming, since private forecasters also unanimously think they can make [...]The Great British Solar Scam (and the scourge of feed-in tariffs)
Updated: 2010-08-23 15:53:56Log in RSS news feed Email Log in RSS news feed Email NEW BOOK How naive politicians , green ideologues and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate by Peter C Glover Professor Michael Economides Now available for pre-sale Released September , 2010 272 pages , hardback from Continuum Publishing Direct click through to page from Continuum Amazon US Amazon UK and from Borders Waterstone and all usual . booksellers Read this book and the next time a green' ideologue insists we must act to save the planet while they won't know what they're talking about , you will Note : The book is not formally launched outside the US until November18, 2010.But UK buyers can get a copy direct from Peter C Glover from September at a discount price plus p p vias this site . Email forGlobal warming evidence is ‘unmistakable’
Updated: 2010-08-23 14:40:17
A new report released by the Met Office and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has come to the conclusion that there is "unmistakable signs" that "the world is warming". The report is based on 10 different indicators of … Continue reading →Doing it yourselves
Updated: 2010-08-21 00:11:18Surface temperature data sets, surfactemperatures.org, Hadley, Broberg, GSOD, McShane and Wyner, paleoclimate reconstructions, BAMS State of the Climate 2009Rebuilding a Buffer Against Climate Impacts
Updated: 2010-08-20 22:31:06
The lowly salt marsh could be one of our best defenses against rising sea levels. A major new effort is underway to expand them in San Francisco Bay. Continue reading »Is GOP Opposition to Cap-and-Trade Self-Contradictory?
Updated: 2010-08-18 16:12:24Betsy Moler of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership and Phil Sharp of Resources for the Future would like Republicans to think so. After all, if GOP opposition to cap-and-trade is self-contradictory, then it is unstable, hence reversible. Few Republicans will be gulled by…Al Gore: the Gift that Keeps on Giving
Updated: 2010-08-17 15:52:16Former Vice President Al Gore is the gift that keeps on giving to opponents of global warming alarmism and energy rationing policies. He leads what I think of as the Dream Team: Gore is the public leader; James Hansen is…Primer on Extreme Weather Mortality
Updated: 2010-08-16 17:35:19The indomitable Indur Goklany — “Goks” to his friends — has just posted a primer on extreme weather-related mortality entitled, Global Death Toll From Extreme Weather Events Declining. If you are one of the hapless millions who watched Al Gore’s scare-you-mentary, An…The Key to the Secrets of the Troposphere
Updated: 2010-08-13 14:54:25
A response from Justin Wood, writing to me from Australia after my previous post (cited with permission below), has prompted me to write a follow-up on the story of the greenhouse effect (GHE).
I wonder if you’ve seen this terrible description of the greenhouse effect on a UNFCCC background page? http://unfccc.int/essential_background/feeling_the_heat/items/2903.php
It actually says that incoming [...]Why It Is Good to Have Two Sides of A Debate
Updated: 2010-08-12 18:27:22With climate alarmists continuing to declare climate debate to be over and asking skeptics to just go away, we are reminded again why it is useful to have two sides in a debate. Few people on any side of any question typically are skeptical of data that support their pet hypotheses. So, in order to [...]Just When I Thought I Had Seen the Worst Possible Peer-Reviewed Climate Work…
Updated: 2010-08-12 18:09:17This is really some crazy-bad science in a new study by Welch et al on Asian rice yields purporting to show that they will be reduced by warmer weather. This is an odd result on its face, given that rice yields have been increasing as the world has warmed over the last 50 years. Now, it [...]Computers are Causing Global Warming
Updated: 2010-08-12 17:55:35
At least, that is, in Nepal. Willis Eschenbach has an interesting post looking into the claim that Nepal has seen one of the highest warming rates in the world (thus threatening Himalayan glaciers, etc etc). It turns out there is one (1) GISS station in Nepal, and oddly enough the raw data shows a cooling [...]UN Economists Propose Fast-track Green Taxes for $100bn Climate Fund
Updated: 2010-08-12 10:46:03Log in RSS news feed Email Log in RSS news feed Email NEW BOOK How naive politicians , green ideologues and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate by Peter C Glover Professor Michael Economides Now available for pre-sale Released September , 2010 272 pages , hardback from Continuum Publishing Direct click through to page from Continuum Amazon US Amazon UK and from Borders Waterstone and all usual . booksellers Read this book and the next time a green' ideologue insists we must act to save the planet while they won't know what they're talking about , you will Note : The book is not formally launched outside the US until November18, 2010.But UK buyers can get a copy direct from Peter C Glover from September at a discount price plus p p vias this site . Email forWind Over Nuclear: Green Zealot Huhne Blowing UK Power Future
Updated: 2010-08-12 09:47:51: Log in RSS news feed Email Log in RSS news feed Email NEW BOOK How naive politicians , green ideologues and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate by Peter C Glover Professor Michael Economides Now available for pre-sale Released September , 2010 272 pages , hardback from Continuum Publishing Direct click through to page from Continuum Amazon US Amazon UK and from Borders Waterstone and all usual . booksellers Read this book and the next time a green' ideologue insists we must act to save the planet while they won't know what they're talking about , you will Note : The book is not formally launched outside the US until November18, 2010.But UK buyers can get a copy direct from Peter C Glover from September at a discount price plus p p vias this site . Email forGranola Free Energy Management Software Helps Blog Readers Reduce Global Warming and Their Electric Bill
Updated: 2010-08-11 16:00:00Corbett Kroehler Global Warming Meet The Experts About Keyboard Culture Become KBC Expert KBC Home Movies Podcasts News Media Radio Home of Global Warming About Corbett Kroehler Expert Login Corbett Kroehler Global warming , environmental sustainability , voter apathy and their common solutions Florida is the front line in the battle against rising seas . Corbett has broad knowledge of environmental issues but his top priority is raising awareness about the risks to Florida from the climate . crisis About Corbett Kroehler Contact Corbett Kroehler C orbett's Website Links www.newsolarparadigm.com www.MisterSustainable.com www.SaveNativeFlorida.org Keyboard Culture Expert Biographies About Dr . Robert Bocknek About Kathryn Brinkley About Ken Blanchard About John Bradshaw About ColetteGreen Jobs: California's Economic Bright Spot
Updated: 2010-08-09 18:39:17One of the strongest arguments for passing a climate and clean energy bill is that it will boost the economy and create jobs. Here's more evidence to support that claim: an updated map compiled by Environmental Defense Fund that shows more than 3,500 "green" businesses in California alone. EDF's Tim Connor wrote about the map on our [...]The Carbon Prayer
Updated: 2010-08-09 16:02:16Log in RSS news feed Email Log in RSS news feed Email NEW BOOK How naive politicians , green ideologues and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate by Peter C Glover Professor Michael Economides Now available for pre-sale Released September , 2010 272 pages , hardback from Continuum Publishing Direct click through to page from Continuum Amazon US Amazon UK and from Borders Waterstone and all usual . booksellers Read this book and the next time a green' ideologue insists we must act to save the planet while they won't know what they're talking about , you will Note : The book is not formally launched outside the US until November18, 2010.But UK buyers can get a copy direct from Peter C Glover from September at a discount price plus p p vias this site . Email forMonckton makes it up
Updated: 2010-08-07 14:59:27Christopher Monckton, Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, making stuff up.