Alternative Energy Fed Up with Our Dysfunctional Food System Posted: 13 Apr 2014 02:00 AM PDT Filed under: Energy News Making ethanol without corn or other plants Posted: 12 Apr 2014 04:00 PM PDT Filed under: Energy News Passive houses save lots of energy Posted: 12 Apr 2014 04:00 PM PDT Filed …
Energy Self-Reliant States: Five Reasons Solar’s Win Over Gas in Minnesota is Just the Beginning
Last week, I summarized the impact of the judicial ruling requiring Xcel Energy to buy peaking power from solar instead of natural gas: Five Reasons Solar’s Win Over Gas in Minnesota is Just the Beginning. Also, I was quoted by Minnesota Public Radio about the release of the Minneapolis Energy Pathways …
Ceres Newsletter: Fracking on the Rise in Water Stressed Regions
Ceres Newsletter – February 2014 Press and Media Press Release: New Hydraulic Fracturing Report Finds Texas and Colorado Face Biggest Water Sourcing Risks News Story: Report: Water Availability a Risk for Oil, Gas Drillers (Texas Tribune) Blog: Energy efficiency, cities, and the Clean Trillion(Environmental Finance) Press Release: Inadequate Action by Securities & Exchange Commission on …
Press Release: EIA launches Coal Data Browser to provide detailed information on U.S. coal sector
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2014 EIA launches Coal Data Browser to provide detailed information on U.S. coal sector The U.S. coal sector. The Coal Data Browser gives users easy access to a vast array of Health Administration and through coal trade information from the U.S. Census Bureau. “EIA’s Coal …
[Climate Bonds] Unibail-Rodamco issues EUR750m 10 year, A+ green property bond, first green corporate bond of 2014 – 3.4x oversubscribed in less than 2 hours. The next wave of green is coming.
Unibail-Rodamco, a large European commercial property company, yesterday announced that it had placed a landmark EUR750mn green bond based on a portfolio of green buildings. The bond was 3.4 times oversubscribed with the order book reaching EUR2.5bn in under 2 hours! The first corporate green bond linked to property was issued by Sweden’s Vasakronan …
Geothermal Potential in California Still Largely Untapped, Industry Group Tells CARB
geothermal industry group has issued a status report on the state’s energy option to meet California’s climate goals,” gea reports. In brief, the status report shows that: · geothermal power generated 4.4% of total system power in California in 2012, but could have generated substantially more; · geothermal power produces some of …
Finding Green Dividend Yield
Finding Green Dividend Yield by Harris Roen, Editor Roen Financial Report February 14, 2014 In the vexing world of alternative energy dividend investment field for green investors, Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure (HASI) and Pattern Energy Group Inc (PEGI). Though these two green companies operate in very different business areas, they both offer promising income …
World Future Council Newsletter February 2014
Dear Friends of the World Future Council, Almost three years after the Great East disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 almost 100 000 people are still displaced. During a recent disaster. We visited abandoned towns that are still highly contaminated. Travelling through entirely intact …
China’s Plan to Clean Up Air in Cities Will Doom the Climate, Scientists Say
Exclusively on InsideClimate News, This Year’s Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting Harper Govt Makes Moves to Silence Canada’s Leading Environmental Groups In both the United States and Canada, pipelines and President Obama has encouraged tar sands policies. Read more. China’s Plan to Clean Up Air …