Tag: Featured Business
-
Large-Scale Solar Project Funding Grew by $5 Billion in 2013
Funding for large-scale, solar energy projects across the globe grew immensely in 2013. According to a year-end report from Mercom Capital Group, corporations and undisclosed investors financed projects with about $5 billion more in 2013 than the year before. Large-scale project investments were $13.6 billion last year, compared to $8.7 billion in 2012. “While venture funding…
-
How One NFL Team Will Turn Food Waste Into Renewable Energy
As if the fact that, in the U.S., we waste 40 percent of our food isn’t shocking enough, a recent study by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that total emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane are almost twice as high in the U.S. as previously thought. More potent than carbon…
-
How Renewable Energy and Organic Farming Helped Revitalize a Small Italian Town
By Laurie Guevara-Stone A trip to Varese Ligure, Italy, will bring you face to face with a charming town of pastel-colored houses and a plethora of restaurants serving dishes with organic porcini mushrooms and chestnuts. Stop at the bustling markets and you will see Italians who have traveled from far and wide to purchase the locally…
-
Spain Achieves Clean Energy Breakthrough: Wind Supplies More Power Than Any Other Source
Wind energy is now king in Spain, officials revealed in a recent report. Wind power narrowly beat out nuclear in 2013 as the top source of energy, according to Red Eléctrica de España (REE), the transmission agent and operator of the Spanish electricity system. Wind met 21.1 percent of the country’s demand, compared to 21 percent for nuclear.…
-
‘60 Minutes’ Attack on Renewable Energy Ignores The Facts
By Joe Romm Clean technology is booming by every key indicator—but you would never know that from Sunday’s absurd 60 Minutes piece touting an imaginary “Cleantech Crash.” As documented in the recent Department of Energy (DOE) report, “Revolution Now: The Future Arrives for Four Clean Energy Technologies,” the only thing in cleantech that is crashing…