Tag: Renewables
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Mark Ruffalo Honored at this Year’s Riverkeeper Fishermen’s Ball on April 16
RIVERKEEPER — The evening will feature award presentation by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and a special musical performance by Grammy award-winning artist Lyle Lovett as Riverkeeper and its supporters celebrate the power of the grassroots movement for clean water and sustainable energy …
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World Wind Power Set to Top 300,000 Megawatts in 2013, After Record 2012
EARTH POLICY INSTITUTE — Even amid policy uncertainty in major wind power markets, wind developers still managed to set a new record for installations in 2012, with 44,000 megawatts of new wind capacity worldwide. With total capacity exceeding 280,000 megawatts, wind farms generate carbon-free electricity in more than 80 countries, 24 of which have …
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The Coming Crash: Our Addiction to Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
POST CARBON INSTITUTE — If you want to understand how much energy costs, don’t look at your electric bill; instead get a copy of the new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. This massive coffee table book contains …
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Ohio Senator Opposes Renewable Energy Mandate, Likening it to a Communist Policy
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS — Renewable energy works for Ohio. Treating renewable energy like another political football is damaging and short-sighted …
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Rafea: Solar Mama
CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — As luck would have it, Rafea is given a chance to travel to Barefoot College in India to participate in a program that trains illiterate women to become solar engineers. If successful, she’ll be able to provide electricity for her village and …