renewables

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 […]

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    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 […]

    Gasland II: From Broken Promises to Renewable Solutions

    Gasland II: From Broken Promises to Renewable Solutions

    Sometimes people tell me, “If you cover fracking, you really need to see that film—that film, what’s it called?” “Gasland?” I’ll offer helpfully. “Yes, that’s it.” It kind of charms me that people less immersed in this issue, than many folks I know, would imagine that I could cover the topic without knowing the film […]

    Students Take Back Earth Day, Demand Divestment from Fossil Fuels

    Students Take Back Earth Day, Demand Divestment from Fossil Fuels

    Energy Action Coalition This Earth Day, on campuses across the country students are demanding their campuses take bold action on climate by divesting from fossil fuels and moving to clean energy. [vimeo_embed http://player.vimeo.com/video/63774687?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=7bb142 expand=1] Students and universities are leading the fight against climate change. Thanks to years of student organizing, more than 700 campuses have […]

    Powering America: How Solar Energy Creates Green Jobs and Grows the Economy

    Powering America: How Solar Energy Creates Green Jobs and Grows the Economy

    Solar Energy Industries Association Calling job creation in America a “shared goal,” the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) today joined other trade associations, labor unions, environmental groups and business and community advocates in pushing for new efforts to address climate change, rebuild America’s aging infrastructure and foster innovation. Members of the BlueGreen Alliance, which represents […]

    Wind Power Opponents May Be Blowing Hot Air

    Wind Power Opponents May Be Blowing Hot Air

    David Suzuki Photo courtesy of Shutterstock Opposition to windmills often centers on health effects, but what is it about wind power that causes people to feel ill? According to recent research, it may not be the infrasound from wind-energy installations but, oddly enough, the warnings from opponents. For a study published in the American Psychological Association’s […]

    Dirty Energy vs. Clean Energy in the Race to Power Off-Grid Energy Markets

    Dirty Energy vs. Clean Energy in the Race to Power Off-Grid Energy Markets

    Sierra Club International By Justin Guay A war is shaping up that pits an entrenched, aging and uncompetitive fossil fuel industry against a young, innovative and increasingly competitive set of renewable energy technologies. The former relies on their entrenched status chock full of obscenely high subsidies to fight of a set of disruptive innovations that […]