Although projections suggest that the costs of installing solar energy may outweigh the benefits in the near term, a report recommends that New York State embrace the technology.
02.02.2012
Categories: Alternative Energy, Energy and Power, environment, Federal Taxes (US), global warming, greenhouse emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Home Wind Power, Labor and Jobs, New York State, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, nyserda, Politics and Government, Politics and Policy, renewable energy, Sales and Excise Taxes, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Tax Credits, Deductions and Exemptions, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
02.01.2012
Categories: Alternative Energy, biodiversity, China, environment, Everglades, global warming, Great Lakes, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, Invasive Species, Longjiang River, Mammals, oceans, Politics and Policy, pythons, Research/Studies, Rivers, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, water quality, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Other suggestions include placing barriers in five locations near Lake Michigan and a “mid-system” option that would come close to restoring a natural divide between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, broken more than a century ago. The Army Corps of…
02.01.2012
Categories: activism, Alternative Energy, Amazon rainforest, Brazil, Britain, corporate environmental transgressors, economics, environment, environmental activism, environmental economics, Famine, food crisis, Food Prices, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, human rights, hunger, Hydroelectric Power, hydropower, Indigenous People, indigenous rights, jeremy hance, rainforest, rainforest destruction, rainforest people, Rivers, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, South America, Switzerland, threats to rainforests, threats to the amazon, threats to the rainforest, tribal groups, tribal people, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
The world’s second largest mining company, Vale, has been given the dubious honor of being voted the world’s most awful corporation in terms of human rights abuses and environmental destruction by the Public Eye Awards. Vale received over 25,000 votes …
01.31.2012
Categories: Alternative Energy, China, Commerce Department, Customs (Tariff), duties, Energy Business, Energy Politics, environment, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, International Trade and World Market, job losses, Labor and Jobs, Politics and Policy, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, SolarWorld AG, United States International Trade Commission, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
A preliminary finding by the Commerce Department suggests that if penalties are levied, they could be retroactive.
01.28.2012
Categories: Air Pollution, Alternative Energy, China, Columbia University, environment, Environmental Performance Index, fisheries, forests, General Pollution, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, iceland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Russia, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Switzerland, water quality, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation, World Economic Forum | Add a Comment
In the latest Environmental Performance Index, Switzerland is at the top, Russia is much closer to the bottom and the United States has failed to gain much ground.
01.21.2012
Categories: Air Pollution, Alternative Energy, Beijing, Breaking News, Emissions Reduction, environment, Exxon Mobil Corp, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, montana, oceans, Pipelines, renewable energy, Research/Studies, Rivers, small, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, toxic and hazardous pollution, water quality, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Exxon Mobil will pay the state of Montana $300,000 in cash and spend $1.3 million on environmental projects there.
01.21.2012
Categories: Alternative Energy, Automobiles, automotive cells, battery storage, Breaking News, Coda Automotive Inc, Coda Energy, coda holdings. solar power, Conventional Energy, Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, electric cars, Electric Light and Power, Emissions Reduction, Energy Economics, environment, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, grid, Home Wind Power, Lithium (Metal), New York Times, renewable energy, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Coda Holdings will make minor changes to battery packs for its cars and sell them individually or grouped together, with the idea of selling them to homeowners to store solar energy and to help businesses reduce their peak loads.
01.19.2012
Categories: a year in the woods, Alternative Energy, Electric Light and Power, environment, global warming, greenhouse emissions, grid, Home Wind Power, Maine, power and electricity, renewable energy, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Factory-rated output is not woods-of-Maine output, the author discovers as he adds up the kilowatt hours.
01.19.2012
Categories: Agriculture, Agriculture and Farming, Agriculture Department, Alternative and Renewable Energy, Alternative Energy, anaerobic digestion, biogas, Butter, butter sculptures, dairy farms, Electric Light and Power, Energy Economics, environment, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Farm Show, renewable energy, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Waste Materials and Disposal, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
The Pennsylvania Farm Show’s famed butter sculpture finds a new use this year, returning to a dairy farm to be processed into biogas.
01.18.2012
Categories: Alternative Energy, Department of Environmental Protection (Mass), environment, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Oregon, renewable energy, Research/Studies, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
A study commissioned by a Massachusetts state agency finds no conclusive evidence that the sounds of wind turbines affect the human balance system or cause illnesses like diabetes.
