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- Automating Solar PV Installation With Alion Energy's Robots June 19, 2013
  Alion Energy has officially transformed from its origins in thin-film manufacturing, to now offering a way to significantly streamline utility-scale solar plant construction, using robots.
  James Montgomery, Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com
- Germany Energy Storage Incentive Could Push PV Market Further June 19, 2013
  As more and more solar is installed and some countries, like Germany, are seeing consumers get an increasing amount of their electricity from intermittent sources, grid storage and batteries are sure to be hot topics at this year’s Intersolar Europe in Munich. Tobias Rothacher, senior manager of renewable energies at Germany Trade and Invest, will
  Christopher Minott
- Are Solar Utilities Obsolete? June 19, 2013
  Are traditional solar photovoltaic (PV) financing models dead? Are solar utilities dinosaurs, about to become extinct? For utilities, says Dirk Morbitzer, general manager of analysis firm Renewable Analytics, “the old times are gone. Utilities must embrace renewables or suffer the consequences.”
  Tildy Bayar, Associate Editor, Renewable Energy World
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- New York takes leadership role in climate resilience June 17, 2013
  Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s $20 billion plan to safeguard New York City against a future Hurricane Sandy and other climate risks is the most ambitious effort yet by any U.S. city to prepare for the expected impacts of climate change.The mayor last week announced “A Stronger, More Resilient New York,” a comprehensive plan to protect communities and critical inf […]
  Dan Huber
- Redrawing the energy-climate map June 14, 2013
  I had the privilege of providing input to the new International Energy Agency (IEA) report, Redrawing the Energy-Climate Map. I am grateful that the IEA produced this special report, which endeavors to keep open the option of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius by keeping the concentration of greenhouse gases below 450 parts per million (CO2-equiva […]
  Judi Greenwald
- Nebraska to support wind farm development with tax incentives June 14, 2013
  On June 4, 2013, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman signed into law a bill that supports wind farm development with tax incentives. LB 104 provides a sales tax exemption for the purchase of turbines, towers, and other wind farm components. These tax incentives for wind development will allow wind projects to stay competitive with other methods of electricity ge […]
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- Key new pieces at Food Freedom News March 11, 2013
  May 25 Missouri Speech: Why Monsanto Must Be Stopped By John Birdno It was a cold November morning in 1977. This man rushes into the emergency room carrying his two year old… Natural Clouds? A New Zealand Cartoonist’s View By … Continue reading →
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- 2012 in review January 26, 2013
  The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 610,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about … Continue reading →
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- Latest posts at Food Freedom News March 9, 2012
  Obama Moves Forward with GE Salmon Approval By Center for Food Safety CFS sharply criticized today’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement releasing an Environmental Assessment (EA) on the controversial AquaBounty AquaAdvantage® transgenic salmon. The FDA action is widely … Continue reading →
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- Who Owns The Forest?
  A UCS white paper identifies two new contradictory trends in land tenure.
- Union of Concerned Scientists President to Take Post at Department of Energy June 19, 2013
  Kevin Knobloch, the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), will take a new post as chief of staff to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Ernest Moniz, a respected physicist and leader on energy technology and policy.
- Obama Should Cut Nuclear Arsenal to 1,000 June 19, 2013
  In response to today's speech by President Obama on U.S. nuclear policy, UCS says he can go further to reduce the U.S. arsenal.
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Renewable Energy Passed Up Nuclear in 2010

Posted by Judy Dudiak on April 17, 2011 · 3 Comments

Renewable Energy Passed Up Nuclear in 2010 Zachary Shahan April 17, 2011 tryin’ to improve our world, one letter at a time click to enlarge It seems that total cumulative installed power capacity from renewable sources passed up nuclear for the first time in 2010, according to the draft version of a new report coming out … Read more

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California Passes Renewable Energy Standard

Posted by Judy Dudiak on April 3, 2011 · 2 Comments

California Passes Renewable Energy Standard (click to open article) California Takes the Lead on Renewable Energy, Green Jobs California’s landmark renewable energy standard legislation—sometimes referred to as the Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS), or the 33 percent RPS law—passed on March 29, 2011. This law will require California utilities to provide at least a third of their … Read more

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Renewable Energy Fight in California

Posted by Judy Dudiak on April 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Renewable Energy Fight in California (Click to open link) Posted by Jacob Cohen-Donnelly on Friday, September 4, 2009 There is currently a major fight taking place in Sacramento, California about the way in which California is going to achieve the new, 33% of energy coming through renewable means by 2020. Two bills going through Assembly … Read more

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  Unprecedented heatwaves, widespread food shortages, more intense cyclones and shifting rain patterns causing floods or droughts are just some of the future problems outlined in the World Bank's latest climate report today.Following its groundbreaking report that warned about a 4 degrees Celsius warmer world, the bank has now looked at what that warming […]
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- Kathleen McClellan on Edward Snowden, Ralph Nader on 'Told You So' June 14, 2013
  Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is either a whistleblower or a traitor, depending on whom you listen to. We'll hear from Kathleen McClellan of the Government Accountability Project about Snowden and the NSA. Also on CounterSpin: Veteran consumer rights activist Ralph Nader joins us to talk about his new book Told You So. He […]
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- Nuclear Energy Innovation Big and Small Important to Climate Change June 18, 2013
  There is substantial opportunity to incorporate next-generation nuclear energy — through either large, advanced reactors or emerging SMR designs or both — more significantly into a productive strategy for reducing carbon emissions in the long and short term, writes Matthew Stepp.
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