The Bureau of Land Management has finalized new rules for siting renewable power projects on public land. Surprisingly, the rules enjoy bipartisan support.
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Scientists at Oxford University say that taxes on food production could slash global climate emissions by 1 billion tons a year — equal to the entire global airline industry.
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On election day, forget about e-mails and pussy grabbing. Vote for people who will protect the earth and everyone on it. America cannot afford to have stupid leaders.
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An official of the Chinese government has called out Donald Trump, saying a wise leader would support the Paris climate change protocols. The implication is that Trump will be rather the opposite of a wise leader.
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The 2016 election is critical to America. Republicans have declared war on the country. Only your vote can stop it.
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Initiative 732 would create a carbon fee structure in the State of Washington. Fossil fuel interests opposed it because it goes too far. The Sierra Club opposes it because it doesn’t go far enough.
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A study in France claims that climate change could turn portions of Spain and other Mediterranean areas into deserts by 2100.
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The IAE reports that half of all new electrical power capacity worldwide came from renewables last year. As the cost of wind and solar drops, renewables are replacing traditional sources of energy, particularly coal.
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Cognitive dissonance is what happens when someone tries to convince you something is true that you know to be false. Wearing a tin foil hat will not protect you from alien body snatchers and clicking your heels three times will not teleport you from the Land of Oz back to Kansas. Cognitive dissonance is perhaps
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Terry Williams of Utah bought an oil and gas lease at a BLM auction but says she wants to leave the oil and gas in the ground. That’s illegal, BLM says. Are they right?
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Arctic sea ice is disappearing. The area covered by sea ice is half what it was 30 years ago but it is also only 1/4 as thick as well. Sea ice is a measure of global temperatures. Are we smart enough to heed the warning?
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A judge in North Dakota on Monday rebuffed a request by an overzealous prosecutor to charge journalist Amy Goodman with rioting after she filmed protesters at the site of the Dakota Access pipeline.
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A US Geological Survey report finds that fracking was the most likely cause of a 4.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Kansas in 2014.
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Climate change has many components — rising sea levels, alterations in rainfall patterns, and an increase in severe storm activity, among others. Communities around the world are faced with the need to plan for climate change but don’t have the information available to do so effectively. Two such communities are Sonoma, California, and Caldas, Colombia.
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Politico reports that Donald Trump is considering Forrest Lucas, an oil and gas executive to head the Interior Department. If so, America can kiss its national parks and public lands goodbye.
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Joe O’Connor and 4 other SolarCity engineers have installed 3 solar powered micro grids at ranger stations in Verunga National Park so rangers can better protect the animals and flora inside the park from poachers.
SolarCity Contributes To Solar Micro Grids For Virunga National Park Read More 👉
WindAid Institute missed its Kickstarter goal, but you can still help them bring renewable energy to local residents in rural Peru. See the link at the end of this story.
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WindAid Institute needs our help to continue its mission of bring clean wind power to rural communities in Peru. Please join their Kickstarter campaign today.
WindAid Wind Turbine Kickstarter Campaign Ends Soon Read More 👉
LucidEnergy, a Portland, Oregon-based startup that launched in 2007, has devised a system to get hydroelectric power from city water supply pipes. A pilot project in Riverside, California is in operation and now a full scale project is beginning with the city of Portland, Oregon. Gregg Semler, president and CEO of LucidEnergy, said his team
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Opponents of the Clean Power Plan say it will drive the cost of electricity through the roof, even though studies show it will actually lower utility bills.
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Researchers in Texas and Germany have created a nanoscale desalinization chip that can go anywhere and make fresh water from just 3 volts of electricity.
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Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and Stephen Hawking have joined 1,000 other notable scientists calling for an AI weapons ban, calling them a “threat to humanity.”
Musk, Wozniak, Hawking Call For AI Weapons Ban Read More 👉
New Solar panel technologies, including perovskite and organic solar cells, will drive down the cost of solar panels for a faster return on investment.
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13 major US corporations have pledged to invest in clean energy technology to fight climate change. Hillary Clinton also revealed a clean energy plan today.
Corporations, Clinton Take Lead In Climate Change Fight Read More 👉
Researchers at the University of Oregon Food Innovation Center have patented a new seaweed that tastes like bacon when fried and thrives in polluted water.
New Seaweed Tastes Like Bacon, Cleans The Oceans Read More 👉
Carnegie Wave Earth has constructed the first grid tied wave energy facility in the ocean near Perth, Australia. It has a capacity of 240 kilowatts peak.
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The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a stinging rebuke to coal advocates in a decision that supports the Colorado Clean Power Initiative of 2011.
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A regional cap and trade program among 9 northeast states has saved consumers $460 million and added $1.3 billion in economic activity says a new report.
Cap And Trade Program Saves $460 Million Read More 👉
The ninth annual Greenpeace report on sustainable seafood gives top marks to Whole Foods and three others. 8 others earned a failing sustainability grade.
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Hip hop artist Akon is using his Akon Lighting Africa program to bring distributed, renewable solar power to more than 600,000 people across Africa.
Akon Lighting Africa Brings Light To Dark Continent Read More 👉
A new interactive website shows the most frequent questions people ask Google about climate change. The project is the result of a collaboration between Google News Lab and Pitch Interactive, a studio in San Francisco reports Smithsonian Magazine. The results are compiled from 20 cities around the world. On Earth reports: Users can see what each city wants to
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James Cameron’s 28 foot wide Sun Flower tracks the sun all day and can generate 265 kWh of electricity, more than enough to power a normal household.
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24M, an MIT start-up, says it has found a new way to manufacture a lithium ion battery that has 5 times as much storage capacity and costs half as much.
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France has called for bids to install 50 MWh of electrical battery storage for its islands in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans and on Corsica.
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Senate Bill 12, known as the “Data Trespassing Bill”, makes it a crime for any person to collect evidence of corporate wrongdoing and present it in court.
Wyoming Data Trespassing Bill Repeals 1st Amendment. Read More 👉
According to sources, a copy of a papal encyclical regarding Church doctrine and climate change will be issued by Pope Francis on Monday of next week.
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The Solutions Project is a plan for how each state in the US can stop using fossil fuels and transition to using power from 100% renewable sources by 2050.
The Solutions Project Will Take The US Off Fossil Fuels Read More 👉
In Bonn, Germany, leaders of the G7 countries have committed to reducing carbon emissions to zero by 2100. They will meet again in Paris in December.
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Barefoot College in India is training African women to be solar power engineers and installers, bringing light to a land of darkness and empowering them too
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Power For All is a global campaign that promotes distributed renewables to bring electrical power to all the world’s people quickly and inexpensively.
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UNPlug is a micro-solar controller that switches seamlessly between grid power, solar power and battery power to run one or two critical appliances.
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An Ocean Summit On Marine Debris was held in Newport RI in May as part of a ten day stopover during the 9 month long, 42,000 mile Volvo Ocean Race.
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Giant wind turbines could give a big boost to renewable energy production in the US, especially in southeastern states says a new report from the US Department of Energy.
Giant Wind Turbines Could Boost US Renewable Energy Production Read More 👉
Voters in an Alberta election have handed conservatives a resounding defeat and elected more women to serve than ever before in Canadian history.
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SolarCity and Tesla are teaming up to change the world of electrical power. Battery storage and micro-grids will make utility companies and grids obsolete.
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An Ocean Summit On Marine Debris will take place in Newport, RI on May 15 as part of a 12 day stopover during the Volvo Ocean Racing around the world race.
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The Sierra Club AddUp app allows environmentalists to crowdsource their political, legal and environmental activism on behalf of the Earth.
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Celebrate a sunrise on Earth Day on the open ocean aboard the yachts competing in the Volvo Ocean Racing around the world competition.
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