Author Archives: Zachary Shahan


About Zachary Shahan

I'm the director of CleanTechnica, the most popular clean energy website in the world, and Planetsave, a leading green and science news site. I've been covering green news of various sorts since 2008, and I've been especially focused on solar energy, electric vehicles, bicycling, and wind energy for the past few years. You can also find my work on Scientific American, Reuters, Think Progress, GE's ecomagination site, several sites in the Important Media network, & many other places. To connect on some of your favorite social networks, go to zacharyshahan.com or click on some of the links below.

Eggs & Cigarettes Similarly Linked To Atherosclerosis (VIDEO)

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Eggs & Cigarettes SImilar Linked To Atherosclerosis

NutritionFacts.org recently shared the video below regarding some recent studies related to the health effects of egg consumption, with this intro line: “A similar exponential increase in carotid artery plaque buildup was found for smokers and egg eaters.” Before sharing the video, though, here’s the catchy reddit title that led me to the post: “Last year a Harvard study linked egg consumption to shortened life expectancy, so the egg industry tried to pay a Yale … Read More

Vegan Google Searches Growing Strong (Animation), + Justin Timberlake Vegan Video

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Google-Vegan-Trend

Vegetarian has long been something Americans were familiar with, even if it wasn’t nearly as widespread as it is today. Heck, even famous historical figures like Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Leonardo Da Vinci were vegetarian (of course, the diet became much more mainstream in the 60s and 70s). However, veganism developed much later, especially as factory farming became more mainstream. But with notable celebrities and politicians like Bill Clinton, Andre 3000, … Read More

Opera Of Power Plants (Video)

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Opera Of Power Plants (Video)

Here’s one of my favorite videos ever. It’s an ad for ECOtricity, which is a clean energy utility company in the UK. Check it out and share it: (Those are coal and nuclear power plant towers coming down in the video.) Thanks to NewEnergyNews for sharing it recently and bringing it back onto my radar. … Read More

After Ever After Viral Video Has Green Gene (Video)

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After Ever After Viral Video Has Green Gene (Video)

Brand new viral video “After Ever After” from Paint just popped onto my radar. After two days, the video has almost 1.5 million views. I decided to check it out for basically two reasons: 1) I was curious what might be the next big, big thing (following Gangnam Style & Harlem Shake), and 2) the still that showed before you press play caught my eye (incidentally, it was a different one from the one below). … Read More

EU Must Go Beyond Carbon Pricing — For Economy, Climate, EU

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EU fuel imports

WWF has released a briefing paper on post-2020 renewable energy targets. The EU has had some of the most aggressive renewable energy and energy efficiency policies and programs for over two decades now. However, its fuel imports have still risen considerably. Already-established renewable energy and energy efficiency leadership will help the EU to curtail that growth in fuel imports, and if it strengthens such policies, that is even more true. Such policies are very helpful … Read More

Study: Carbon Pricing Needed In Order To Cut Airline Emissions

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eu airlines carbon emissions law

There’s a long-standing controversy with airlines and carbon pricing in the EU. Basically, the EU decided to unilaterally put a price on carbon dioxide emissions from all airplanes landing or taking off within its borders. It did so because, despite a global agreement that airline emissions needed to be cut, no progress was made on that front for several years. The aviation and shipping sectors are the only sectors not included in countries’ Kyoto Protocol … Read More

KB Homes & SunPower Customers Hit $1 Million In Annual Electricity Savings

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kb home bedroom lancaster california

Reposted from Solar Love: KB Home and SunPower just celebrated their 1,000th solar home customer. In combination with that, they are also celebrating an estimated $1 million or so a year in annual electricity savings amongst their 1,000 customers. Incidentally, KB Home and SunPower came together for this milestone announcement at an event in Lancaster, California — a city aimed at becoming the solar energy capital of the world which just announced it is implementing … Read More

Smart Grid Project In Texas Will Test Utility-Scale Energy Storage For Wind Power

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energy payback time

Wind power is the cheapest option for new electricity in many, many places now. Partly due to that, more power capacity was added in the U.S. last year from wind than from any other power source. And the U.S. isn’t the only place it’s been growing — it saw 20% growth worldwide last year. This is all great news, since the energy payback time for a wind turbine beats basically every other power technology (chart below), and wind … Read More

Secret Group Pumping Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Into Anti-Wind, Anti-Solar, & Anti-Climate Action Campaigns

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protester

If you can’t beat a competitor on simple merits, logic, science, or economics, simply pump hundreds of millions of dollars into disinformation campaigns. Heck, if deceiving the public and corrupting legislators and government officials isn’t a good and honorable practice, what is? What am I talking about? Today, I’m referring to Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, which have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on anti–climate action, anti-solar energy, and anti–wind energy campaigns. “Promising anonymity … Read More