August 14, 2008 – 02:45 pm
From National Journal’s Waning Warming Debate: “According to a survey from ABC News, Planet Green and Stanford University, fewer than half — 47 percent — of Americans consider global warming an important issue to them personally, down from 52 percent in April 2007. Although a vast majority still think the planet is warming — 8 [...]
August 13, 2008 – 10:47 am
From Tom Friedman’s Eight Strikes and You’re Out: “On July 30…the Senate was voting for the eighth time in the past year on a broad, vitally important bill that would have extended the investment tax credits for installing solar energy and the production tax credits for building wind turbines and other energy-efficiency systems. Senator McCain [...]
About ten days ago, Justin yelled at me for using a gas-powered lawn mower, and I took his words to heart. So yesterday, I mowed the lawn with the rusty old push mower I found in the carriage house. I also did a little research, and found that Manual lawn mowers making a comeback: “Exact [...]
From Vermont Commons’s If Only I Were King Of Vermont: “Vermont needs to become energy and food independent. We have plenty of wind, solar, biomass, and hydro-power resource-potential to meet our needs. We have plenty of agricultural and water resources. We have plenty of smart and motivated people. What’s missing? The problem is that most [...]
April 29, 2008 – 12:17 pm
So, I was reading an article on Alternet this morning entitled, “We Must Imagine a Life Without Oil.” It’s basically a warning about peak oil, but near the end, the author, Mark Hertsgaard, writes:
Activists in scores of towns and cities around the world are trying to prepare their communities for the transition to a post-oil [...]
February 13, 2008 – 12:31 pm
From the Rutland Herald’s Vermonters want action on energy: “The conversation was really one about values. Vermonters essentially said: ‘Policy-makers: We care about more than just the short-term bottom-line cost of electricity per kilowatt. We care about the health, safety, and environmental risks of our decisions today and the impacts that will be born down [...]
October 15, 2007 – 12:16 pm
From a post on the blog, No Impact Man, entitledWhat No Impact feels like after ten months: “You click off family’s electricity and make them go to bed at nine every night because it’s too dark to do anything else. You ban them from the elevator so they have to walk up and down nine [...]
August 22, 2007 – 02:52 pm
For all you energy conscious folks out there, you might want to take a look at Blackle. It’s Google, except instead of the white background, there’s a black background. By not having your monitor create the white screen, this saves a small amount of energy. They estimate that, with the number of visitors they’ve had, [...]
From Power station harnesses Suns rays: “It is Europes first commercially operating power station using the Suns energy this way and at the moment its operator, Solucar, proudly claims that it generates 11 Megawatts MW of electricity without emitting a single puff of greenhouse gas. This current figure is enough to power up to 6,000 [...]
March 30, 2007 – 12:50 pm
From Bigelow Tea installs Solar Panels: “The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund announced that the Clean Energy Investment Committee has approved a grant of $777,000 to Bigelow Tea Company to defray approximately 55% of the cost of installing a 171-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system at the company’s Fairfield, Connecticut headquarters facility. The solar PV system will be mounted [...]
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