Tag: europe
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Dirty Energy vs. Clean Energy in the Race to Power Off-Grid Energy Markets
SIERRA CLUB INTERNATIONAL — A war is shaping up that pits an entrenched, aging and uncompetitive fossil fuel industry against a young, innovative and increasingly competitive set of renewable energy technologies. The former relies on their entrenched status chock full of obscenely high subsidies to fight of a set of …
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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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Greenwashing the Carbon Costs of Fracking and Coal Exports
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE — The two oversights in the fracking argument allow shale gas to be painted green, when in reality it is anything but. Similar attempts have been made to paint the Canadian tar sands green, by the Canadian government no less. These are arguments that must be exposed …
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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 …
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Polluting Paradise
CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — The things we take for granted have become a constant frustration for a people who aren’t asking for much. Will they have to abandon the homes they’ve …