| Harnessing desert sun to power Europe Connecting North Africa and Europe with a solar energy power network |
9th December 2011 | |
| Pacific micro-state switches entirely to renewable energy Tokelau challenged world leaders at the UN climate talks in Durban to follow its leadTokelau, a Pacific micro-state with only 1,500 people and three cars, today challenged world leaders at the UN climate talks in Durban to follow its lead and switch entirely to renewable energy.The pinprick of low-lying land halfway between new Zealand and Hawaii, is two days' boat ride - and no aeroplane - from anywhere. But, cyclones permitting, next September it will switch off its old diesel generators and be powered by a $7.5m solar PV system designed to provide 90% of its energy. |
9th December 2011 | |
| Barack Obama urges nations to follow lead of Wangari Maathai The US president called on countries to preserve their forests after the example of the Kenyan environmentalist. President Obama made his only contribution to the global climate talks on Wednesday by urging countries to preserve their forests and follow the example of Nobel peace prize winner and Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai who died earlier this year."Wangari's work stands as a testament to the power of a single person's idea that the simple act of planting a tree can be a profound statement of dignity and hope first in one village, then in one nation, and now across Africa," he told ministers and conservationists at the UN talks in Durban, via a video message.Obama urged countries to follow Maathai's lead. |
9th December 2011 | |
| UK set to exceed carbon targets, analysis shows Government says study shows affordable low-carbon economy achievable - but next 20 years will require huge investment |
9th December 2011 | |
| Cost of Photovoltaic Solar Energy Lower Than Usually Reported, Study Says The cost of photovoltaic solar energy systems is not nearly as expensive as some energy analysts have projected, according to a new study from Queen's University in Ontario. In fact, Queen's researcher Joshua Pearce predicts that solar photovoltaic systems are approaching the "tipping point" at which they will be capable of producing energy at about the same price as traditional energy sources. In a study published in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Pearce says that many recent analyses of the costs of photovoltaic solar power - which typically include factors such as installation and maintenance costs, finance charges, life expectancy of the system, and the amount of electricity - have ignored the 70-percent reduction in solar panel costs since 2009. |
9th December 2011 | |
| Exploring the Spiritual Side Of the Journey of the Universe Mary Evelyn Tucker has been one of the innovators in the study of the connections between religion and ecology. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, she talks about her work and about a new film she co-produced that points to the spiritual dimension of responding to the world's environmental challenges. |
9th December 2011 | |
| Carbon Pricing to Save Green Climate Fund Carbon pricing will be the core mechanism to finance the Green Climate Fund and with it climate change adaptation projects in developing countries. |
9th December 2011 | |
| Bolivia Submits Sustainable Forest Life Proposal to COP17 based on the Principle of "Non-commodification of Forests" FORESTS ARE MORE THAN JUST A COMMODITY:FORESTS ARE MORE THAN JUST A COMMODITY: Bolivia Submits Sustainable Forest Life Proposal to COP17 based on the Principle of "Non-commodification of Forests." |
9th December 2011 | |
| Space-Based Solar Technology Feasible Within 30 Years, Study Says An international group of scientists says space-based solar plants could help meet the world's energy needs within 30 years if governments are willing to provide the early funding. Space-based solar technology - in which satellites are launched into space to collect the Sun's energy and beam it back to Earth - could be "technically feasible" within two decades, according to the new study by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). But, while the study does not offer a cost estimate for such a project, it suggests that the development and deployment would likely cost tens of billions of dollars. [...that's about 29 years too late...] |
14th November 2011 | |
| Interview: A Power Company CEO Ties His Future to Green Energy David Crane, the CEO of NRG Energy, is not your typical power company executive, as becomes clear when he calls climate change a "slow-moving NRG EnergyDavid Crane catastrophe" and "the fundamental issue of our day." As head of a Fortune 500 company that produces electricity for 20 million households, Crane is still neck-deep in hydrocarbons, with more than 90 percent of NRG's electricity production coming from natural gas, coal, and oil. But the future, vows Crane, will look radically different. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Crane says he believes the electricity market will be transformed by the widespread adoption of three innovations ... |
14th November 2011 | |
| Keystone Pipeline Victory: President Puts Disastrous Pipeline on Hold -- May Effectively Kill the Project The American people spoke loudly about climate change and the president responded. |
14th November 2011 | |
| Green bond offers 6% return Green electricity firm Ecotricity launches bond to raise money for developing wind-farm capacityIf you like the idea of investing in renewable energy, but think that installing solar panels sounds like too much aggravation, green electricity firm Ecotricity has just launched a bond promising to pay a 6% return."Ecobond two" aims to raise £10m and allow people to share in the benefits of the green energy revolution "without needing to stick anything on their roof". The bond has an initial four-year term and will pay an annual rate of interest of 6%, rising to 6.5% for Ecotricity customers. |
14th November 2011 | |
| 'Pee power' is possible, UK scientists find Urine-based biomass touted as way of reducing harmful impact of animal wee |
14th November 2011 | |
| Mass solar panel installation on Nottingham social housing - big picture The mass installation on 600 homes in Broxtowe and Aspley is one of the largest to be carried out in the UK in a single domestic scheme |
14th November 2011 | |
| Small is beautiful - an economic idea that has sadly been forgotten | Madeleine Bunting It is chilling that so many thinkers, politicians and academics have signed up to the deadening consensus of globalisationEF Schumacher's Small is Beautiful was the first book on politics I ever read; it was the only book about politics I ever saw my father read or heard him talk about. It arrived in our cottage in rural North Yorkshire as a manifesto from a radical countercultural world with which we had no contact. Re-reading its dense mixture of philosophy, environmentalism and economics, I can't think what I could possibly have understood of it at 13, but in a bid to impress my father I ploughed on to the end.Looking back over the intervening almost four decades, the book's influence has been enormous. |
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