Even the normally cautious Guardian enthused about the signal of global seriousness about climate change evidenced by a record 170 nations signing the Paris accord on a single day and emerging hopes that enough nations might ratify by the end of this year to bring the accord into legal effect four years earlier than originally […]
1. Community Cooperative Utilities As a chain of volcanic islands, Hawai’i doesn’t have coal and natural gas readily available to generate electricity. The state depends on oil, shipped in by tanker, to generate electricity. In 2002, Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) became the first and only member-owned utility company in the state, aiming to solve […]
Yesterday afternoon, in an old vaudeville music hall in downtown Kingston, New York, Bernie Sanders‘ campaign held a rally “for clean energy and safe climate” to build support for the presidential candidate and mobilize the Hudson Valley, Catskills and Southern Tier to fight climate change in advance of New York’s Democratic primary election on April […]
By Environment America Research & Policy Center Sixty-four major American cities are now home to almost as much solar capacity as the entire country had installed at the end of the 2010, according to a new analysis, which ranks America’s major cities for their solar power. Solar panels atop of the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center […]
By Nate Aden As countries embark on the transition to a new climate economy, there’s a debate about whether growth can drive or even coexist with, climate stabilization. On the other side of the coin, it’s also a discussion of whether climate stabilization can drive growth. Economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions have increasingly diverged […]
Today Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft filed an amicus brief in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan, showing the importance of the plan to major electricity consumers and the growing political advocacy by major technology companies for renewable energy. Today Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft filed an amicus brief in […]
By Emily J. Gertz Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya set out to show that climate change isn’t all gloom and doom. The result, Catching the Sun, ably makes that case, but may still leave you inspired and infuriated in equal parts. This fast-paced and compelling documentary, which premieres today in New York City and in cities nationwide […]
In the midst of controversy over BC’s Peace River Site C dam project, the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association released a study showing the province could get the same amount of energy more affordably from geothermal sources for about half the construction costs. Unlike Site C, geothermal wouldn’t require massive transmission upgrades, would be less environmentally […]
Global investment in renewable energy was more than twice that of coal and gas last year, according to a new report, despite plummeting fossil fuel prices. A wind farm in Washington state. Photo credit: Daniel Parks / flickr Renewable energy investment totaled a record $286 billion, with China, India, Brazil and other developing countries accounting for $156 billion in […]
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