• Michigan Oil Spill Company Also Building Largest Solar Plant in North America

    Updated: 2010-07-31 16:28:09
    Credit: First Solar.Enbridge, the Canadian company behind the recent oil spill in Michigan's Calhoun County near Marshall, just happens to also be behind construction of the largest photovoltaic solar energy facility in North America. ...Read the ful...

  • New Vertical Garden Comes to Spain's San Vicente (PHOTOS)

    Updated: 2010-07-31 16:21:39
    Image Credit: All photos courtesty of UrbanbolisimoIt looks like as a green destination, Spain is pulling ahead. The European country has emerged as a solar energy leader and its wind power industry is growing by leaps and bounds. So when Spanish des...

  • Top 6 Designs That Harness the Energy of Physical Play

    Updated: 2010-07-31 16:00:01
    It's often hard not to succumb to the built-in stimuli of digital entertainment especially when it's everywhere we turn. But we often forget that there's a lot to be had with just one's imagination and a little bit of physical energy. So as an al...

  • Cleantech Survey

    Updated: 2010-07-31 12:47:00
    Results of the Cleantech Investment and Private Equity survey conducted by Cleantech Investor and Norton Rose earlier this year have now been published. The survey was conducted amongst both cleantech companies and investors - predominantly from Euro...

  • The Past Month, In Oil

    Updated: 2010-07-31 05:17:26
    Konrad Imielinski submits: Oil prices have increased $3.32 (4.4%) within this time frame: July 1st, 2010 (Thursday) Oil fell $2.68 to $72.95: U.S. jobless claims unexpectedly rose by 13,000 to 472,000 in the week ended June 26th.Complete Story ...

  • Urban Bedbug Onslaught Is A Curse On Dense Living, Recycling, & Energy Efficiency

    Updated: 2010-07-31 02:10:29
    Bedbug. Image credit:wikipediaBedbugs are are becoming quite the urban plague again, resurgent and causing much misery in US cities after decades of being a relatively rare problem. Some methods of being rid of bed bugs, these days, are pretty awfu...

  • Coal, Soot and A Mighty Wind

    Updated: 2010-07-31 01:21:33
    This week in climate news: coal dollars in California, soot in the air, and wind in the desert. Continue reading »

  • Thermografische Kaart: Heat Seeking Camera Used to Assess Home Energy Use

    Updated: 2010-07-31 00:30:00
    Fly by night operation provides a detailed map of heat loss in Belgium.by Tim Varga(image via Terrapass)The quality of your home's insulation can be hard to assess without tearing into walls or poking a hole in the roof to see what's underneath. But ...

  • Thoughts on an Ethanol Pipeline

    Updated: 2010-07-31 00:13:37
    Join the forum discussion on this postLocal Production for Local NeedsI currently live in Hawaii, and one thing I hope to help facilitate is for Hawaii to become more sustainable in food and energy. We have the natural resources here to be largely s...

  • The Challenges and Opportunities of a Sustainability Index

    Updated: 2010-07-30 22:36:26
    Cleaning the supply chain is one of the challenges of Walmart's sustainability project. Image credit: williamcho/FlickrThis guest post was written by Rand Waddoups, senior manager of sustainability at Walmart.Last July, we announced that we would lea...

  • Canada to accelerate green technology patent process

    Updated: 2010-07-30 20:48:31
    The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has proposed changes to federal patent law that would help speed up the patenting process for green technologies. No additional fee would be required to take advantage of the accelerated exam...

  • Reflections from the Leader of our National Climate Campaign

    Updated: 2010-07-30 20:24:30
    This week, Steve Cochran took a moment to share his thoughts on the recent developments in the Senate with EDF supporters and activists. He discusses some of the frustrations and some of the challenges ahead, such as protecting California’s climate change law from a hostile ballot initiative in November’s election. He also looks at bright [...]

  • NOAA Report Confirms: Yes, the World Is Warming

    Updated: 2010-07-30 19:48:45
    A report released this week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provides new evidence that global warming continues relentlessly.  The report comes after climate science was found to be solid in several official investigations into the so-called “Climategate” controversy, and it adds even more urgency to the need to reduce global warming pollution [...]

  • Green Roofed Farm City Combines Agriculture and Urban Density

    Updated: 2010-07-30 19:35:25
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  • Solyndra Selected By Southern California Edison For Solar Contract

    Updated: 2010-07-30 18:37:33
    The United States appears to be catching on to the German way of approaching solar installations as Solyndra was awarded a contract to provide 16.2 megawatts (MW) of rooftop photovoltaic solar systems for Southern California Edison (EIX:NYSE) undre a...

  • Evatran Unveils World's First Wireless EV Charger

    Updated: 2010-07-30 18:32:37
    In today's age of wireless technology, the plug-in electric vehicle is both revolutionary and kind of a throw-back to wired technologies of times past. Fear not wireless charging for your gas-free vehicle is on the way. The Virginia company Evatr...

  • UK Government Encourages Local Creation of Wind Energy

    Updated: 2010-07-30 16:00:32
    Like many governments on both sides of the pond, the UK has ambitious renewable energy goals but is struggling trying to meet them. One issue is wind: Britain receives a good share of it, but has struggled building small-scale wind farms because lo...

  • Beautiful Spanish Prefab Home Constructed in Just Three Days

    Updated: 2010-07-30 14:00:34
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  • Bellwether Materials: A Startup in Sheep's Clothing

    Updated: 2010-07-30 10:03:20
    Priscilla Burgess is presently one last fire-resistance test away from really putting the product that she's developed over the past three years into motion. She's already cleared the R-value and sound-resistance tests needed to certify that the buil...

  • Ecovillages & Cohousing Setting a New Trend in Sustainable Living

    Updated: 2010-07-30 10:02:13
    Cohousing is a rapidly growing trend, showing up in both rural and urban areas. According to cohousing.org, Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods...

  • Comverge: To Post a Profit Next Year, It's Got Its Work Cut Out

    Updated: 2010-07-30 08:21:52
    Tate Dwinnell submits: Comverge (COMV) reported results that were inline with analyst estimates on the EPS side and a bit above on the revenue side. The company reported a non GAAP EPS loss of .39/share on revenues of $17 million vs the analyst e...

  • U.S. Navy Soars into Solar Energy Future to the Tune of $100 Million

    Updated: 2010-07-30 08:00:00
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  • Calatrava Unveils Rail Station At Denver International Airport

    Updated: 2010-07-30 05:15:03
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  • NOAA to Skeptics: We’re Right, You Can’t Deny It

    Updated: 2010-07-29 23:03:15
    A recent report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has received wide media attention, has come to the conclusion that evidence for anthropogenic global warming is “undeniable.” This has, of course, been seized on by alarmists as confirming…

  • Garbage In, Money Out

    Updated: 2010-07-29 18:44:55
    In my Forbes column last week, I discuss the incredible similarity between the computer models that are used to justify the Obama stimulus and the climate models that form the basis for the proposition that manmade CO2 is causing most of the world’s warming. The climate modeling approach is so similar to [...]

  • Another climate change myth debunked

    Updated: 2010-07-29 15:13:40
    As  much of world swelters in a heat wave, last winter seems like a long time ago. Some parts of the U.S. had more snow than usual, and climate change contrarians were quick to claim that disproved all the accumulated science behind man-made climate change. Not surprisingly, that talking point was wrong, and the scientific reasons [...]

  • Poll Shows Support for Climate Law

    Updated: 2010-07-29 05:01:19
    While the recession has worn down environmental sensibilities across the nation, they seem to holding up better in California. Continue reading »

  • Annual Climate Report Shows a Warming World

    Updated: 2010-07-28 21:47:53
    NOAA offers more confirmation that things are heating up over the long haul. Continue reading »

  • Lawmakers get a “hook” on the environment

    Updated: 2010-07-28 17:31:16
    There is no shame in being a C student. But there is not much too be proud of, either. That was the grade handed out this week by the New York League of Conservation Voters, one of the state’s oldest environmental lobbying groups, to the state Legislature for action on  various environmental bills. According to its press [...]

  • Happy 35th birthday, global warming!

    Updated: 2010-07-28 01:54:50
    Global warming is turning 35! Not only has the current spate of global warming been going on for about 35 years now, but also the term “global warming” will have its 35th anniversary next week. On 8 August 1975, Wally Broecker published his paper “Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming?” in [...]

  • Pohanka on Global Warming Alarmism

    Updated: 2010-07-27 22:25:32
    At a time when most businesses are desperately trying to establish their “green” bona fides in a futile effort to placate the environmentalist movement, Washington, D.C.-area auto dealer and former National Automobile Dealers Association board member Geoffrey Pohanka is a…

  • Climate Action May Be Up to the States

    Updated: 2010-07-26 16:53:16
    Now that Congress has officially punted on any sort of climate/energy bill, can the states go it alone? Continue reading »

  • Another Climate Change Impact: Smog

    Updated: 2010-07-23 20:08:47
    Warmer temperatures mean more days with dangerous ozone levels in central and southern California. Continue reading »

  • The Consequences of Inaction on Climate Change

    Updated: 2010-07-23 16:51:12
    What a long, hard road it has been getting Congress to pass a strong climate and energy bill. I regret to say that the news is not especially good, though the door is not yet completely closed. After weeks of intense negotiations among EDF and other environmental organizations, Senate leaders, the White House, and some [...]

  • The Next Frontier: Artificial Photosynthesis

    Updated: 2010-07-23 00:02:28
    A consortium of California universities and labs will take on a mind-boggling challenge: energy from plants. Continue reading »

  • From the blogosphere: the latest on the climate bill

    Updated: 2010-07-22 23:27:54
    Not surprisingly, a number of blogs today talked about Senator Reid’s (D–Nev.) statement that he’ll move forward with a somewhat scaled-back energy bill. The legislation is slated to include a response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and energy efficiency incentives, but omit a carbon cap or many of the broader climate change measures [...]

  • Cuomo weighs in on federal greenhouse gas lawsuit

    Updated: 2010-07-22 22:01:10
    After the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would start controlling greenhouse gas emissions in 2011, fossil-fuel dependent industries launched a lawsuit to block it. Today, New York State is among a 13-state coalition that is lining up to support the EPA, according to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. The new EPA rule is aimed at large [...]

  • California Counties Face Water Crunch

    Updated: 2010-07-22 17:35:39
    An NRDC report brings a new meaning to "red" counties in California. Continue reading »

  • From the blogosphere: DOE does cool, Google goes with wind

    Updated: 2010-07-22 03:23:08
    CleanTechies joined several of their online colleagues in enthusiastically reporting on cool roofs, which “could help reduce global temperatures and offset the heat from as much as two years of global greenhouse gas emissions,” according to a new report from the Berkeley Lab. The report found that “increasing the reflectivity of roofs and pavement in cities [...]

  • A Cap on Carbon is a Private Sector Stimulus Bill

    Updated: 2010-07-21 22:42:38
    About one million new jobs in the clean energy field have been created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus bill. That’s according the latest report from the Council of Economic Advisers. That’s good news for the clean energy economy, and for those Americans who are looking for work. But [...]

  • For Roofs, White Is the New Cool

    Updated: 2010-07-21 15:29:30
    Government "whitewash?" With ammo from a new study, the feds attack their hot roofs. Continue reading »

  • You Know it Has to Be A Skeptic Writing When You See This

    Updated: 2010-07-21 05:50:54
    I have followed Roy Spencer’s work for a while on trying to measure climate feedback effects from satellite data.  In general, I give him Kudos for actually working on what is really THE critical problem that separates climate catastrophe from climate rounding error.  It is good someone is working on this, rather than, say, how [...]

  • July 20th, 2010 – The voices of a new clean energy future

    Updated: 2010-07-20 23:45:04
    In its editorial, “Energy savings and the climate and energy bill,” The Keene Sentinel starts with discussion of local efforts to cut energy use in government buildings but stresses that these alone aren’t enough, pivoting onto a discussion of the climate bill. The piece is particularly interesting in that in targets Senator Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), [...]

  • From the blogosphere: new green jobs, a proposal on low carbon fuel standards, and VoteVets supports clean energy legislation

    Updated: 2010-07-20 20:42:06
    Treehugger and CleanTechnica both wrote on the new Council on Economic Advisors report finding that nearly 1 million new jobs were created by the stimulus bill, and “one of the areas where Recovery Act funds are stimulating the most private investment is the clean energy sector.” In response to reports that senators are considering adding [...]

  • The Evidence Continues to Pile Up: Climate Legislation is Affordable. The Time to Cap Carbon is Now.

    Updated: 2010-07-20 14:32:06
    As the debate on climate legislation gears up in the Senate, evidence continues to accumulate that a climate bill will be affordable and provide a much-needed boost to our economy. A new analysis released by the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the comprehensive climate and energy legislation introduced by Senators Kerry and [...]

  • Climate legislation highlights from the blogosphere

    Updated: 2010-07-19 22:38:31
    In his online journal, Al Gore stressed his support for the American Power Act and its potential to reduce the deficit. Treehugger’s support was less enthusiastic although they still regard it as a step in the right direction. The Center for American Progress highlights the green job creation and economic stimulus potential of the climate [...]

  • A Eulogy to Stephen Schneider

    Updated: 2010-07-19 22:03:58
    We were greatly saddened to learn that our revered colleague Stephen Schneider passed away this morning. We are posting a personal account by Ben Santer of Steve’s amazing accomplishments and contributions. Ben’s account provides a glimpse into what made Steve so special, and why he will be so deeply missed: Today the world lost a great [...]

  • Corn and Energy

    Updated: 2010-07-19 21:38:14
    Who doesn’t love the summertime favorite of corn on the cob? But there isn’t much to love about corn ethanol, which has been around as a fuel since the Carter administration as a way to reduce the demand for oil. A recent congressional audit spells out that energy savings and greenhouse gas reductions are actually minimal, [...]

  • Eyjafjallajökull caused fall in carbon emissions

    Updated: 2010-07-18 01:58:03
    This past week the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull was officially declared dormant. The volcano, which you almost certainly remember from the news, had a big eruption in the early months of this year effectively grounding flights all over Europe. “This second … Continue reading →

  • Revisiting the Younger Dryas

    Updated: 2010-07-17 14:27:52
    Younger Dryas, North Atlantic circulation, MOC, abrupt climate change, last glacial maximum

  • Does This Sound Familiar to Anyone?

    Updated: 2010-07-16 19:45:58
    Greg Mankiw on scoring the federal stimulus package: the CEA took a conventional Keynesian-style macroeconomic model and used those set of equations to estimate the effect the stimulus should have had.  Essentially, the model offers an estimate of the policy’s effect, conditional on the model being a correct description of the world.  But notice that this exercise is [...]

  • Might As Well Be Walking on the Sun

    Updated: 2010-07-14 17:48:39
    Steve Goddard and Anthony Watt have a series of posts on an old favorite topic on this site — how data manipulations back in the climate office is creating a lot of the “measured” warming.  This particular example is right here in Arizona, and features several sites my son and I surveyed for Anthony’s site.  [...]

  • Absolutely Hilarious

    Updated: 2010-07-14 17:44:17
    I know I am late on this but I am trying to spool back up on this site so allow me to catch up.  It turned out that that the IPCC’s Amazon claim (that 40% of the rain forest was at risk from global warming) came from the Facebook page of a 12-year-old girl.  OK, [...]

  • A simple recipe for GHE

    Updated: 2010-07-05 15:00:45
    According to some recent reports (e.g. PlanetArk; The Guardian), the public concern about global warming may be declining. It’s not clear whether this is actually true: a poll conducted by researchers at Stanford suggests otherwise. In any case, the science behind climate change has not changed (also see America’s Climate Choices), but there [...]

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