Tag: business
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Top Solar Cities in California
California is used to top rankings when it comes to solar energy, and that isn’t expected to change when full data for 2013 is released. Back in March, the Solar Energy Industries Association predicted a first-place finish for California in solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in three categories—residential, non-residential and utility. Consider that California received massive investments…
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Innovative Company Transforms Recycled Jeans Into Coasters, Wallets and Rings
While most people throw away old magazines and denim jeans or recycle them, a small company uses the materials to make cool items you likely wouldn’t have imagined possible. Junk mail, newsprint and old money are among the items Lincoln, NE-based Iris Industries uses to make composites that eventually produce architectural finishes, tile, consumer products, furniture and…
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Feds Extend Permits to 30 Years for Wind Farms for Accidental Eagle Kills
[caption id="attachment_314682" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] The rift between the wind power industry and wildlife advocates will likely grow as a result of an expanded federal permitting process for wind projects. The U.S. Department of the Interior has announced that some wind energy companies will be granted 30-year permits that allow them to…
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Bloomberg Launches First Tool to Measure Risk of Carbon Assets Still in Ground
By Elizabeth Douglass In a move that underscores Wall Street’s growing unease over the business-as-usual strategy of the world’s fossil fuel companies, Bloomberg L.P. unveiled a tool last week that helps investors quantify for the first time how climate policies and related risks might batter the earnings and stock prices of individual oil, coal and natural gas…
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6 Reasons Why Nuke Fan Is Dead Wrong About Wind Energy
By Michael Goggin The Energy Collective blog recently carried a column, Limitations of Unreliable Energy Sources, aka ‘Renewables,’ by Rod Adams, a longtime nuclear power advocate and critic of competing energy sources. In his column, Adams repeats a number of false statements about wind power. When corrected, his claims actually highlight a number of ways…