LEED Points

Tag: Energy

  • Extreme Energy and Planetary Decline

    TOMDISPATCH — The very definition of success—more middle-class consumers, more car owners, more shoppers, which means more energy used, more fossil fuels burned, more greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere—is also, as it never would have been before, the definition of failure. The greater the “success,” the more intense the droughts, the stronger the …

  • Letters & Links from Students

    The following note comes from Layla Russell, who works with young students interested in solar energy. When I asked Layla to describe the nature of the links she and her students had sent, she wrote, “I think the best way to describe how they found them useful would be that they all incorporate something either explaining…

  • Al Gore Tells Obama: Cancel Keystone XL

    OIL CHANGE INTERNAITONAL — “I still hold out hope that he will be as positively surprising in his policy initiatives this year as he was in his speeches …

  • Al Gore Tells Obama: Cancel Keystone XL

    OIL CHANGE INTERNAITONAL — “I still hold out hope that he will be as positively surprising in his policy initiatives this year as he was in his speeches …

  • NREL Quantifies Significant Value in CSP

    Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have quantified the significant value that concentrating solar power (CSP) plants can add to an electric grid.