• Solar Ibex Cooker Boils and Bakes Using the Sun's Rays

    Updated: 2010-09-08 22:00:19
    The Solar Ibex is a high-performance, outdoor, user friendly solar cooker with an auto-tracking sun ray concentrator. It allows for adjustable cooking times and can heat up to 300 degrees Celsius, which makes it a great off-grid solution for your coo...

  • Solar: Solaria Gets $20 Mil More, Canadian Goes Giant, Abengoa Gets Thumbs Up

    Updated: 2010-09-08 21:03:37
    Concentrators for photovoltaic modules may still be a zero billion dollar market, but money from investors continues to flow in.Solaria, which combines a silicon solar cells and a concentrator in a single package, says it raised $20 million more toda...

  • A Symbolic Solar Road Trip To Reignite a U.S. Climate Movement

    Updated: 2010-09-08 20:45:00
    An activist caravan to bring one of Jimmy Carter's solar panels back to the White House symbolizes not only the time the U.S. has lost in developing new energy technologies but also the urgent need for taking action on climate.As I write this pie...

  • Sundrop's Solar Gasification Uses Total Concentration

    Updated: 2010-09-08 20:00:55
    While most biomass-to-biofuels systems burn feedstocks as the first step in biofuel production, Sundrop uses concentrated solar energy to gasify the feedstocks into syngas that is then made into advanced biofuels. According to the company's websi...

  • Land Art Generator Initiative and the Weather Field Project

    Updated: 2010-09-08 20:00:00
    The results of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) have just begun to be made public. The LAGI is an open design competition for a land art intervention that can double as a renewable energy power plant, in the United Arab Emirates. From the ini...

  • Sustainable Bamboo Pavilion for Communal Living

    Updated: 2010-09-08 19:36:10
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  • Proud Americans, Solvin' The World's Problems

    Updated: 2010-09-08 19:02:17
    When the World Economic Forum reaches out to the world and asks people to talk about resource sustainability, energy efficiency and carbon emissions, they expect serious, thoughtful answer. And for the most part they get them.Americans, of course, ha...

  • Proud Americans, Solvin' The Worlds Problems

    Updated: 2010-09-08 19:02:17
    When the World Economic Forum reaches out to the world and asks people to talk about resource sustainability, energy efficiency and carbon emissions, they expect serious, thoughtful answer. And for the most part they get them.Americans, of course, ha...

  • Thrivability, Food Forests, and Recycling the City

    Updated: 2010-09-08 19:00:00
    Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging:2009Worldchanging Interview: Jean Russell on ThrivabilityJon Lebkowsky interviews Jean Russell about her idea for replacing sustainability with thrivability ...2009Food From ForestsDa...

  • Power From the Atmosphere: Is it Real?

    Updated: 2010-09-08 18:34:33
    It could slash the cost of wind power and greatly expand the size of the global footprint for wind. And, no, airborne wind power advocates add, they aren't crazy.Airborne wind power -- a concept based on devices that can harvest power from the uppe...

  • Top Ten Solar Venture Capital Investors

    Updated: 2010-09-08 15:44:15
    The braintrust at Greentech Media suggested I write an article on the top ten solar venture capital firms. Even despite what Sanjay said in this article.As I started writing, I realized that the normal metrics for grading VCs -- IRR, quality of exits...

  • 10 ETFs to Capitalize on Cleantech Growth

    Updated: 2010-09-08 15:37:00
    Clean Technology and Clean Transportation Growth Members of the cleantech community follow the success of public companies in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and electric transportation. Some people, of course, also invest in these companies...

  • State Climate Change program takes fire from oil billionaires

    Updated: 2010-09-08 15:26:20
    Former GOP Gov. George Pataki spearheaded a multi-state effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Now, the two-year-old Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative program is being attacked by a group linked to two conservative oil billionaires who also are major funders of the campaign to deny man-made global warming. Wonder what the governor thinks about [...]

  • Dept. of Energy Puts $8.5 Million Toward New Smart Grid Tech

    Updated: 2010-09-08 15:21:40
    We as a planet are only as good as our grid when it comes to sustainable energy development. We can build the best wind farms and solar projects but if our grid is antiquated, that power will never reach the citizens of Earth. Secretary of Energy Ste...

  • Can Seed Swapping Flourish Online?

    Updated: 2010-09-08 15:03:57
    Image credit: SeedLivingMost TreeHuggers will tell you that without access to decent, viable seed, and without a system for allowing that seed to develop and adapt, the long-term sustainability of our food system is nigh-on impossible. Yet while some...

  • New Energy Technologies: Can OTC-Traded Firms Win in Energy?

    Updated: 2010-09-08 14:00:47
    I'm not sure what to make of the company I just interviewed -- New Energy Technologies (OTC BB: NENE.OB). And more broadly, I wonder what thinly traded, small-market-cap, over-the-counter traded stocks can add to the advancement of renewable energy...

  • To Solve the Renewable Puzzle, Look West to South Korea

    Updated: 2010-09-08 12:07:19
    Colorado's San Luis Valley is a solar energy developer's dream. Thanks to its altitude (roughly 7,000 feet above sea level) and the cloud-blocking capabilities of the surrounding snow-capped mountains, it gets more photons from the sun than just abou...

  • The New Normal in Oil and Natural Gas Prices

    Updated: 2010-09-08 06:03:49
    Donald Marron submits:In previous posts (most recent here), I noted that oil and natural gas prices have disconnected from their usual historical relationship. For many years, oil prices (as measured in $ per barrel) tended to be 6 to 12 times nat...

  • Gridded Modular Eco Home in the Hills Outside Sao Paulo

    Updated: 2010-09-08 05:34:14
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  • The Carbon Industry Is the Unsung Hero in the Cleantech M&A

    Updated: 2010-09-08 05:21:00
    Voices from the cleantech venture sector whine at least once a quarter about lack of M&A activity. In carbon that hasn't been the case this year (though only a handful of US venture capitalists could stomach that obscene foreign policy risk in ca...

  • Republican Candidates Ambivalent About Prop 23

    Updated: 2010-09-07 17:25:05
    Even if they oppose the state's current law to curb greenhouse gases, Republicans seem to have a tough time spitting out their positions on California's Proposition 23. Continue reading »

  • Unemployment Jumps to 9.6%, 54,000 More Jobs Lost

    Updated: 2010-09-03 19:10:17
    Unemployment went back up to 9.6%, as the nation shed 54,000 jobs in August.  Yet Obama calls this “Recovery Summer.”  This is the same Obama who complained about the economic recovery in 2004 being jobless because unemployment was at 6 percent. …

  • CPUC says Smart Meters are Accurate

    Updated: 2010-09-03 00:07:34
    The devices are working properly, but PG&E's customer service isn't, according to an independent audit. Continue reading »

  • Greenhouse Protection Racket — An Update

    Updated: 2010-09-02 16:57:59
    Last week, the Obama Administration filed a brief  on behalf of industry petitioners urging the Supreme Court to vacate an appeals court decision (State of Connecticut et al. v. American Electric Power et al.) that would allow States and private parties to sue coal-burning electric utilities for their…

  • 2010 Is Five-Alarm Tipping Point of Polar Ice Cap Melting Due to Global Warming

    Updated: 2010-09-01 20:00:00
    Corbett Kroehler Global Warming Meet The Experts About Keyboard Culture Become KBC Expert KBC Home Movies Podcasts News Media Radio Home of Global Warming About Corbett Kroehler Expert Login Corbett Kroehler Global warming , environmental sustainability , voter apathy and their common solutions Florida is the front line in the battle against rising seas . Corbett has broad knowledge of environmental issues but his top priority is raising awareness about the risks to Florida from the climate . crisis About Corbett Kroehler Contact Corbett Kroehler C orbett's Website Links www.newsolarparadigm.com www.MisterSustainable.com www.SaveNativeFlorida.org Keyboard Culture Expert Biographies About Dr . Robert Bocknek About Kathryn Brinkley About Ken Blanchard About John Bradshaw About Colette

  • EPA hydrofracking hearing rescheduled for Binghamton

    Updated: 2010-08-31 22:38:46
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rescheduled its hearing for testimony on natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking. Last month, a meeting scheduled in at the University at Binghamton was cancelled because of concerns over large crowds drawn by what has turned into a contentious environmental health issue. An attempt to shift the meeting to Syracuse at [...]

  • A Tale of Two Coasts: The East Roasts While the West Shivers

    Updated: 2010-08-31 22:06:53
    Both San Francisco and Washington D.C. had record temperatures in July. They just happened to be at opposite ends of the thermometer. Continue reading »

  • Wyoming toughens hydrofrack rules

    Updated: 2010-08-31 15:12:49
    As New York State considers rules to control natural gas hydrofracking, which relies on a high-pressure blend of chemicals, sand and water to break up gas-bearing rocks underground, another state where hydrorfracking has been happening is requiring drilling companies to disclose specific chemicals on a well-by-well basis. The new rules, which water protection groups says are [...]

  • Domestic Workers and Climate Change

    Updated: 2010-08-31 14:32:11
    At 11:00am this morning, Gov. David Paterson will sign the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in New York City. This represents a real accomplishment. Here’s what Domestic Workers United says on its website about their battle to able to organize for their rights as workers: “The moment is finally here. Governor Paterson will indeed be signing [...]

  • US EPA Official Says "No on 23"

    Updated: 2010-08-31 00:56:46
    U.S. EPA Administrator Jared Blumenfeld is just the latest official to speak out against Proposition 23. Continue reading »

  • Obama’s EPA: School Marms R Us

    Updated: 2010-08-30 22:12:26
    The Obama Administration’s EPA and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NTSHA) are proposing new rules “labeling each passenger car with a  government letter grade from A to D based on its fuel efficiency and emissions,” the Wall Street Journal reports. The…

  • IPCC report card

    Updated: 2010-08-30 19:59:37
    Update: Nature has just published a thoughtful commentary on the report The Inter-Academy Council report on the processes and governance of the IPCC is now available. It appears mostly sensible and has a lot of useful things to say about improving IPCC processes – from suggesting a new Executive to be able to speak for IPCC [...]

  • Cow Power Not Cutting It

    Updated: 2010-08-30 05:35:32
    Technology to combat one kind of pollution ends up causing another. Continue reading »

  • Pennsylvania makes tougher rules for gas drilling water pollution

    Updated: 2010-08-26 21:05:46
    As the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation weighs new rules to regulate natural gas drilling using hydrofracking _ which uses a high-pressure blend of chemicals, sand and water to break up underground gas-bearing rocks _ the state of Pennsylvania yesterday announced tougher rules to control polluted water that is created as part of [...]

  • News Flash: Climate Change Isn’t Going Away, and Neither Are We

    Updated: 2010-08-26 20:56:01
    Environmental groups, renewable energy businesses, and grassroots activists rallied last week outside the federal building in Albany calling on Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to push for Senate action on a climate change bill this year. The event, called “Rethink, Refuel: Offshore Drilling and Climate Change,” drew connections between the BP oil catastrophe (“spill” is too weak [...]

  • National Security Risks of Biofuel Mandates — Corrected*

    Updated: 2010-08-25 00:06:18
    Those amazing Idsos who run the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change review a paper recently published in AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment by Mulder et al. (2010), who assess the energy return on…

  • Forecasting

    Updated: 2010-08-23 16:34:42
    One of the defenses often used by climate modelers against charges that climate is simple to complex to model accurately is that “they do it all the time in finance and economics.”  This comes today from Megan McArdle on economic forecasting: I find this pretty underwhelming, since private forecasters also unanimously think they can make [...]

  • The Great British Solar Scam (and the scourge of feed-in tariffs)

    Updated: 2010-08-23 15:53:56
    Log in RSS news feed Email Log in RSS news feed Email NEW BOOK How naive politicians , green ideologues and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate by Peter C Glover Professor Michael Economides Now available for pre-sale Released September , 2010 272 pages , hardback from Continuum Publishing Direct click through to page from Continuum Amazon US Amazon UK and from Borders Waterstone and all usual . booksellers Read this book and the next time a green' ideologue insists we must act to save the planet while they won't know what they're talking about , you will Note : The book is not formally launched outside the US until November18, 2010.But UK buyers can get a copy direct from Peter C Glover from September at a discount price plus p p vias this site . Email for

  • Global warming evidence is ‘unmistakable’

    Updated: 2010-08-23 14:40:17
    A new report released by the Met Office and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has come to the conclusion that there is "unmistakable signs" that "the world is warming". The report is based on 10 different indicators of … Continue reading →

  • Doing it yourselves

    Updated: 2010-08-21 00:11:18
    Surface temperature data sets, surfactemperatures.org, Hadley, Broberg, GSOD, McShane and Wyner, paleoclimate reconstructions, BAMS State of the Climate 2009

  • Is GOP Opposition to Cap-and-Trade Self-Contradictory?

    Updated: 2010-08-18 16:12:24
    Betsy Moler of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership and Phil Sharp of Resources for the Future would like Republicans to think so. After all, if GOP opposition to cap-and-trade is self-contradictory, then it is unstable, hence reversible. Few Republicans will be gulled by…

  • Al Gore: the Gift that Keeps on Giving

    Updated: 2010-08-17 15:52:16
    Former Vice President Al Gore is the gift that keeps on giving to opponents of global warming alarmism and energy rationing policies. He leads what I think of as the Dream Team: Gore is the public leader; James Hansen is…

  • Primer on Extreme Weather Mortality

    Updated: 2010-08-16 17:35:19
    The indomitable Indur Goklany — “Goks” to his friends — has just posted a primer on extreme weather-related mortality entitled, Global Death Toll From Extreme Weather Events Declining.  If you are one of the hapless millions who watched Al Gore’s scare-you-mentary, An…

  • The Key to the Secrets of the Troposphere

    Updated: 2010-08-13 14:54:25
    A response from Justin Wood, writing to me from Australia after my previous post (cited with permission below), has prompted me to write a follow-up on the story of the greenhouse effect (GHE). I wonder if you’ve seen this terrible description of the greenhouse effect on a UNFCCC background page? http://unfccc.int/essential_background/feeling_the_heat/items/2903.php It actually says that incoming [...]

  • Why It Is Good to Have Two Sides of A Debate

    Updated: 2010-08-12 18:27:22
    With climate alarmists continuing to declare climate debate to be over and asking skeptics to just go away, we are reminded again why it is useful to have two sides in a debate.  Few people on any side of any question typically are skeptical of data that support their pet hypotheses.    So, in order to [...]

  • Just When I Thought I Had Seen the Worst Possible Peer-Reviewed Climate Work…

    Updated: 2010-08-12 18:09:17
    This is really some crazy-bad science in a new study by Welch et al on Asian rice yields purporting to show that they will be reduced by warmer weather.  This is an odd result on its face, given that rice yields have been increasing as the world has warmed over the last 50 years. Now, it [...]

  • Computers are Causing Global Warming

    Updated: 2010-08-12 17:55:35
    At least, that is, in Nepal.  Willis Eschenbach has an interesting post looking into the claim that Nepal has seen one of the highest warming rates in the world (thus threatening Himalayan glaciers, etc etc).  It turns out there is one (1) GISS station in Nepal, and oddly enough the raw data shows a cooling [...]

  • UN Economists Propose Fast-track Green Taxes for $100bn Climate Fund

    Updated: 2010-08-12 10:46:03
    Log in RSS news feed Email Log in RSS news feed Email NEW BOOK How naive politicians , green ideologues and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate by Peter C Glover Professor Michael Economides Now available for pre-sale Released September , 2010 272 pages , hardback from Continuum Publishing Direct click through to page from Continuum Amazon US Amazon UK and from Borders Waterstone and all usual . booksellers Read this book and the next time a green' ideologue insists we must act to save the planet while they won't know what they're talking about , you will Note : The book is not formally launched outside the US until November18, 2010.But UK buyers can get a copy direct from Peter C Glover from September at a discount price plus p p vias this site . Email for

  • Wind Over Nuclear: Green Zealot Huhne Blowing UK Power Future

    Updated: 2010-08-12 09:47:51
    : Log in RSS news feed Email Log in RSS news feed Email NEW BOOK How naive politicians , green ideologues and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate by Peter C Glover Professor Michael Economides Now available for pre-sale Released September , 2010 272 pages , hardback from Continuum Publishing Direct click through to page from Continuum Amazon US Amazon UK and from Borders Waterstone and all usual . booksellers Read this book and the next time a green' ideologue insists we must act to save the planet while they won't know what they're talking about , you will Note : The book is not formally launched outside the US until November18, 2010.But UK buyers can get a copy direct from Peter C Glover from September at a discount price plus p p vias this site . Email for

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