Renewable Energy

Fossil Fuel Industry Continues to Squash Renewable Energy Age

Fossil Fuel Industry Continues to Squash Renewable Energy Age

TomDispatch By Michael T. Klare When it comes to energy and economics in the climate-change era, nothing is what it seems. Most of us believe (or want to believe) that the second carbon era, the Age of Oil, will soon be superseded by the Age of Renewables, just as oil had long since superseded the […]

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    Major Fossil Fuel Divestments Strengthen Renewable Energy Movement Worldwide

    Major Fossil Fuel Divestments Strengthen Renewable Energy Movement Worldwide

    TckTckTck Storebrand, a major Norwegian pension fund and life insurance firm, has announced it has divested from 19 fossil fuel companies. Announcing the move, the group’s head of sustainable investment, Christine Tørklep Meisingset, said it had gone down the divestment route to “reduce fossil fuel and CO2 [carbon dioxide] exposure and ensure long-term stable returns” for […]

    Renewable Energy Activists Unite Worldwide to End the Age of Dirty Coal

    Renewable Energy Activists Unite Worldwide to End the Age of Dirty Coal

    TckTckTck Activists from across the world came together this past Saturday to be part of a global movement calling for an end to the age of coal and standing together for a clean energy future. In Istanbul, youth activists attending Global Power Shift joined local groups to march the streets calling for an end to […]

    Report Reveals Key to Scaling Renewable Energy Worldwide

    Report Reveals Key to Scaling Renewable Energy Worldwide

    World Wildlife Fund Challenges in scaling implementation of renewable energy must be addressed if the target of 100 percent sustainable renewables by 2050 is to be achieved, according to a new World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report. In the report, challenges inhibiting scaling up implementation in seven countries—China, India, Germany, Morocco, Philippines, South Africa and Spain—are […]

    U.S. Solar Energy Installations Reach Record High in First Quarter

    U.S. Solar Energy Installations Reach Record High in First Quarter

    Solar Energy Industries Association GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) today release U.S. Solar Market Insight: 1st Quarter 2013, the definitive analysis of solar power markets in the U.S., with strategic state-specific data for 28 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

 This quarter’s report finds that the U.S. installed 723 megawatts […]

    San Onofre Is Dead and So Is Nuclear Power

    San Onofre Is Dead and So Is Nuclear Power

    Harvey Wasserman From his California beach house at San Clemente, Richard Nixon once watched three reactors rise at nearby San Onofre. As of today all three are permanently shut. It’s a monumental victory for grassroots activism. It marks an epic transition in how we get our energy. In the thick of the 1970s Arab oil […]

    How to Invest in Energy Efficiency to Combat Climate Change

    How to Invest in Energy Efficiency to Combat Climate Change

    Ceres Energy efficiency is estimated to be a multi-hundred-billion dollar investment opportunity in the U.S., but better policies are required to unlock broad-based financing from institutional investors, who together manage approximately $70 trillion in assets globally. That is the key finding of Power Factor: Institutional Investors’ Policy Priorities Can Bring Energy Efficiency to Scale, a […]

    Groups Voice Concerns as Senate Confirms Moniz as Secretary of Energy

    Groups Voice Concerns as Senate Confirms Moniz as Secretary of Energy

    EcoWatch Yesterday, the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Dr. Ernest Moniz as the new Secretary of Energy of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). President Obama selected Dr. Ernest Moniz, a scientist and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as his choice to run the DOE. His confirmation has received mixed responses from health and environmental advocates. […]

    How Renewable Energy Can Transform New York State

    How Renewable Energy Can Transform New York State

    Grassroots Environmental Education More than 160 business leaders, elected officials, representatives from organizations and concerned citizens packed the Mount Kisco Public Library in Westchester County, NY, last night to hear nationally-recognized experts explain how New York could and should accelerate New York State’s renewable and sustainable energy future. Only one seat—reserved for Gov. Cuomo—remained empty […]