Tag: Renewables
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National Consortium Eyes 20,000 Solar School Installations by 2020
A group you may have never heard of before has big plans for our education system. They won’t have anything to do with curriculum, but their ideas will keep renewable power flowing at schools across the country for years to come. The three-day National Science Teachers Association conference began Thursday with the announcement of a newly…
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Clean Energy Breakthrough Uses Sun to Create Solar Materials
In a recent advance in solar energy, researchers have discovered a way to tap the sun not only as a source of power, but also to directly produce the solar energy materials that make this possible. [caption id="attachment_329453" align="alignnone" width="500"] The sun could almost be a “one-stop shop” that produces both the materials for solar…
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Pew Report Reveals Which Country is Winning the Clean Energy Race
The Pew Charitable Trusts’ latest report gives data on clean energy investment and deployment the feel of movie box office rankings or mid-season baseball stats. The organization considers a variety of categories and measurable figures, pitting nations against one another to answer one question—Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? With so many categories, it’s not the…
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10 Incentives Congress Must Renew to Ensure a Clean Energy Future
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden has officially begun consideration of legislation to reinstate a suite of tax credits that big polluters and their allies succeeded in getting Congress to let expire, including vital, commonsense policies that promote clean energy. These tax credits grow the economy by cutting pollution and their absence in the committee’s initial bill…
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Windmills are Beautiful
I have a cabin on Quadra Island off the British Columbia coast that’s as close to my heart as you can imagine. From my porch you can see clear across the waters of Georgia Strait to the snowy peaks of the rugged Coast Mountains. It’s one of the most beautiful views I have seen. And…