Renewable Energy

Fossil Fuel Stocks Tumble, Renewable Energy Stocks Soar

Fossil Fuel Stocks Tumble, Renewable Energy Stocks Soar

Fossil fuel stocks tumbled while renewable energy soared on Monday, the first day of trading after global leaders cemented their landmark climate pact in Paris. Under the agreement, countries have pledged to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to keep global warming beneath 1.5 degrees Celsius. And it is clear the fossil fuel […]

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    Uruguay Powers Nearly 100% of Electricity From Renewables

    Uruguay Powers Nearly 100% of Electricity From Renewables

    Uruguay has made some impressive strides in the last decade on the environmental front. The South American country of 3.4 million has drastically reduced its carbon footprint in less than 10 years “without government subsidies or higher consumer costs,” the country’s National Director of Energy Ramón Méndez told The Guardian. Uruguay Makes Dramatic Shift to Nearly […]

    Elon Musk: We Must Put a Price on Carbon to Expedite Transition to Renewables

    Elon Musk: We Must Put a Price on Carbon to Expedite Transition to Renewables

    Speaking to students at the Sorbonne University in Paris, Elon Musk said we need a price on carbon similar to the one abolished in Australia to halve the time it will take to transition to renewable energy—a crucial step in addressing climate change. We have to “remove the effective subsidy of not pricing the damage done by carbon […]

    Google Announces ‘Largest Purchase of Renewable Energy Ever’

    Google Announces ‘Largest Purchase of Renewable Energy Ever’

    Google is another step closer in their goal of powering 100 percent of their operations with clean energy. Today, the search giant announced “the largest, and most diverse, purchase of renewable energy ever made by a non-utility company.” The massive purchase adds an additional 842 megawatts of renewable energy capacity to power their data centers, […]

    Brad Pitt’s Nonprofit Delivers LEED Platinum Homes to Fort Peck Reservation

    Brad Pitt’s Nonprofit Delivers LEED Platinum Homes to Fort Peck Reservation

    Make It Right, the nonprofit organization founded by actor Brad Pitt, has delivered the first five of 20 LEED Platinum, cradle to cradle-inspired homes to the Fort Peck reservation in Montana, home to the Sioux and the Assiniboine nations. Five families have moved into their brand new, environmentally friendly abodes after the tribes and foundation kickstarted this much-needed housing project more […]

    100% Renewable-Powered World ‘Technically Feasible and Economically Viable’ by 2030

    100% Renewable-Powered World ‘Technically Feasible and Economically Viable’ by 2030

    Many doubt the scientific, technical and economic feasibility of achieving 100 percent renewable energy in a single country or even globally. But this vision has never been more realistic than now, according to the latest International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) report and a paper written by Stanford University. The first report by IRENA, RE Thinking Energy, points […]

    100% Clean Energy is 100% Possible

    100% Clean Energy is 100% Possible

    Imagine Martin Luther King hadn’t had a dream, Gandhi didn’t stand up to the powerful elite and Elon Musk had taken “no” for an answer when they tried to kill the electric car. What kind of world would we have? Exactly a week ahead of the opening of the COP21 climate summit in Paris, the […]

    782 Richest People Could Power Half the World With 100% Renewable Energy

    782 Richest People Could Power Half the World With 100% Renewable Energy

    The personal fortunes of the 782 wealthiest people on the planet, many CEOs of major corporations, could power Africa, Latin America and most of Asia with 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, said Friends of the Earth International in a new report released today. Photo credit: Friends of the Earth International Launched seven days before the […]