blogsJam : Green Energy

Busines Week reports that Verdant Power's tidal energy project in New York's East River is about to restart again, and may be the first in a wave of green energy projects in NYC - Why New York City's third try with tidal power is good news for the U.S.. More at The New York Times - A Futuristic .. read full article »

George Monbiot has been complaining about over-fishing and the impact of fish deficient diets on mental health for some time - his latest installment looks at the case of Senegal - Rich countries once used gunboats to seize food. Now they use trade deals.In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, .. read full article »

National Geographic's feature article this month is on soil - Our Good Earth: The future rests on the soil beneath our feet (via frogblog).Journalists sometimes describe unsexy subjects as MEGO: My eyes glaze over. Alas, soil degradation is the essence of MEGO. Nonetheless, the stakes—and the .. read full article »

Subsidies for biofuels in the UK could be much better spent in environmental terms by helping the developing world cut back on the generation of carbon dioxide from deforestation and using unsustainable fuels such as peat, according to the Policy exchange in a report The Root of the Matter. The .. read full article »

Air New Zealand to try Jatropha based biofuel by end 2008 the firm is working with Rolls Royce which has been looking at Jatropha-based fuels since 2005.  read full article »

Rising prices and minimal benefts mean that Toronto's public transport commission will be looking hard at sticking with biofuels with its bus fleet in a meeting scheduled on 27 August, according to the Globe and Mail.  read full article »

Will nuclear power get a Rocky Mountain high at the Democratic convention in Denver? Democrats are spending all week staring at the big issues, from health care to the energy crisis and climate change. There’s a radioactive elephant in the room. Nuclear power’s been in the “China .. read full article »

Tropical maize may be better than US corn for biofuels according to Physorg.com. There are researchers in the mid west growing tropical maize, it grows to about 14 feet (about 4m) and because it does not produce ears concentrates sugar in its stem. I guess that it grows in a manner similar to .. read full article »

SunWize Technologies, Inc. has recently moved the headquarters for its Distributed Power Group to downtown San Jose. SunWize Technologies represents yet another leading Clean Tech company attracted to San Jose by the city's Green Vision initiative and downtown redevelopment incentives. read full article »

An 18.2 kilowatt solar power system has been installed on the grounds of the Pepsi Center, home of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, it was announced today by AeonSolar, Evergreen Solar and PV Powered, each of which was involved in the system installation. The goal of incorporating solar .. read full article »

Special guests NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and wife Chandra (cofounder of the Jimmie Johnson Foundation) will present the keys of homeownership to the first Habitat partner family for the Jimmie Johnson Foundation and San Diego Habitat for Humanity project in Jimmie's hometown of El Cajon. read full article »

LDK Solar Co., Ltd announced that its wafer plant has reached the milestone of 1 gigawatt (GW) of annualized production capacity. read full article »

Covanta Holding Corporation announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase two biomass energy facilities from co-owners Ridgewood Maine L.L.C. and Indeck Energy Services Inc. The two nearly identical facilities, located in West Enfield and Jonesboro, Maine, will add a total of 49 .. read full article »

Raser Technologies and New Mexico governor Bill Richardson have announced that the first phase of construction is set to begin on the first commercial geothermal power project in New Mexico. The power plant will be one of the first in the country to use new low temperature geothermal power .. read full article »

More than 175 companies and organizations from across the political spectrum have started the Clean Energy NOW campaign, which is calling for Congressional action to extend the renewable energy and energy efficiency tax credits when the legislators return for the September session. The credits .. read full article »

Southridge Enterprises Inc. announced that the company's subsidiary, Southridge Brasilia Corp. (SBC), has received a total of US $7.5 million from its project partners for the construction of the ethanol facility in Brazil. read full article »

A one megawatt solar system will be installed on the roof of the new Goyder Pavilion, the centerpiece of the Adelaide Showgrounds upgrade, South Australian Premier Mike Rann has announced. According to Rann the AU $8 million project would be the largest rooftop solar photovoltaic installation in .. read full article »

I continue to read with optimism the PHEV (plug-in hybrid vehicle) concept, especially the Chevy Volt. TESLA also put out a paper a while back (July, 2006) regarding its entry. My question is this: At US $0.10-0.12 a kWh from my local utility, how much will it cost me to drive the Volt's .. read full article »

Anyone who has walked barefoot across a parking lot on a hot summer day knows that blacktop is exceptionally good at soaking up the sun's warmth. Now, a research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has found a way to use that heat-soaking property as a source of renewable energy. .. read full article »

Lisburn residents have achieved a 31% recycle rate for last year. By using green bins for recycling material such as paper, cans, cardboard and plastic bottles and brown bins for compostable garden waste, residents have achieved another year-on-year increase.As well as the green and brown bins, .. read full article »

David Latimer of The Mesothelioma & Asbestos Awareness Center kindly submitted this article for the Conscious Consuming blog. You now have one more reason to walk and bike commute as much as you can, and support solar and wind power development:Nowadays the big craze is “going green,” and .. read full article »

I can't really think of a better headline for this article than one I came across earlier today: "Looking for energy, Google goes to hell." Except, maybe: "Google goes to hell (in search of energy)." Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org, is in fact sinking $10 million into the advancement of .. read full article »

Caulking originates from the days of wooden ships. Each seam between the wood planks of a boat???s hull had to be caulked to make the vessel watertight. Dry wood shrinks and wet wood swells making it hard to keep the seam leak free. Materials were developed that would keep the water out .. read full article »

Flanked by Majora Carter, Jessy Tolkan, Billy Parish, and Kal Penn, Erica Williams of Campus Progress kicked off today’s College Democrats of America’s panel on climate change at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO. A more accomplished panel speaking on behalf of the youth .. read full article »

by Marguerite Manteau-RaoSocial media and sustainability may align in at least ten ways, according to Max Gladwell, but they certainly do not intersect very much in actuality.Proof is this quick search I conducted on Twitter, of last 24 hours of business conversations on "sustainability", .. read full article »

IGHIH is reporting from the sweet new media building a few blocks from the Democratic Convention called The Big Tent. This week you can expect a variety of dispatches from the bloggers stationed here, on the Convention floor, and at various happening around Denver. Below is the first of many .. read full article »

The Register reporter Steve Goddard is admitting today that his article last week on melting Arctic Sea Ice (Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered) is incorrect.Too bad the damage has already been done.  In his article, Goddard claimed that National Snow and Ice Data Center plot of Arctic Sea .. read full article »

"The science behind "global warming" doesn't really explain why the past models haven't been accurate, or why there are holes big enough to drive a Mack Truck through in the current models. There is currently no support for the contention that it's caused by humans," says Republican .. read full article »

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to suggest in a television interview Sunday that natural gas isn’t a fossil fuel. From the post on the Journal’s Washington Wire by Journal reporter John D. McKinnon: On NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the speaker twice seemed to suggest that natural .. read full article »

(NOTE: This Blogware blog has been moved to Wordpress. Please reset your links to www.cleanbreak.ca. I will post entries on both sites for the next week to allow for smooth transition, but as of September 1 this Blogware site will not be updated. All new entries will only be found at .. read full article »

Here’s a pleasant surprise: Xcel Energy is retiring two coal-fired plants in Colorado and adding 850 megawatts of wind power and a 200-megawatt solar concentrating power plant -- one of the world's largest -- instead. It’s the company’s first stab at utility-scale solar. Even better: .. read full article »

Emerging markets, EAFA, and the US market (S&P 500) were little changed on the week, commodities (DJP) rose 2.8%. Sustainable energy stocks created some excitement but overall were mixed:Solar raced ahead for the week rising 9.5% driven by a variety of positive developments. Three of the index .. read full article »

(NOTE: This Blogware blog has been moved to Wordpress. Please reset your links to www.cleanbreak.ca. I will post entries on both sites for the next week to allow for smooth transition, but as of September 1 this Blogware site will not be updated. All new entries will only be found at .. read full article »

About 75% of all fertilizers and fertilizer technology used around the world today were developed or improved during the 1950s to 1970s by scientists and engineers at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in the United States, says John Shields, a former TVA official. Shields is now Interim .. read full article »

Scientists from Ohio State University have developed a very cheap non-precious metal catalyst that converts biofuels like ethanol into hydrogen with an efficiency of up to 90%. This development opens up a future of decentralised, on-the-spot hydrogen production for use in fuel cell cars. What is .. read full article »

Crude futures recouped lost ground after Russia recognized two breakaway republics, raising fresh fears about tensions in the Caucasus, Bloomberg reports. Conflict with Russia also threatens to scupper the civilian nuclear-technology pact dear to the Bush administration, the WSJ reports (sub .. read full article »

It looks like the lads at Ziff Brothers (and others) and going to be disappointed in their hopes to try and produce shale oil in Queensland, with the state government banning developments for at least 2 years - Bligh says no to north Qld shale project.Queensland premier Anna Bligh has killed off .. read full article »

The Boston Globe has a look at some of the steps being taken to keep Oman producing oil for as long as possible - Thirst for oil feeds Oman innovation.Sirens and air monitors surround the more-than-$1 billion oil installation rising off the flat, rock-strewn desert floor in Harweel oil fields in .. read full article »

This is a pretty snappy title for a Reuters article - Buffett, Gates, mutant fish frame oil sands debate. Once again, the Simpsons are well ahead of reality - just imagine the plagues of mutant fish that await us if Homer Without The Donut takes the Whitehouse.In the high-stakes battle between .. read full article »

Heading up the Columbia River - click on the image to see a larger picture. read full article »

Dr. Martin Weitzman is considered one of the world's top economists. He has degrees in Math, Physics, Statistics and Economics from Stanford and MIT, among others places, and is a Professor of Economics at Harvard. His area of expertise is Environmental Economics, and he says there’s a chance, .. read full article »

As Democrats at the “green convention” in Denver prepare for four days of speeches and finger foods, and struggle to get their hands on the much-touted but unreliable wooden key cards at local hotels, the White House seems intent to steal some environmental thunder this week. GOP: Green .. read full article »

by Richard T. StuebiI never cease to be amazed by the frequency and vehemence of opinions expressed on energy and environmental matters by people who are spectacularly underinformed. So in this exposition about oil, let's first begin with a Top Ten List of clear-cut facts.1. World oil production .. read full article »

Good news, beleaguered American consumer: The greenback and crude oil might finally be working in your favor. Can’t get no satisfaction (AP) Bloomberg reports today that currency traders are chalking up the dollar’s second straight day of gains to the hope that lower oil prices will .. read full article »

SolarCraft of Novato will be donating a 3.7 kW Mitsubishi Electric Solar Energy System at the Sonoma Valley Harvest Wine Auction on August 31st. In addition, Cline Cellars, powered by 100% solar electricity, offers 8 magnums of Green String farmed Syrahs and Zinfandels, grown and produced by .. read full article »

Opel International Inc., a leading global developer and supplier of concentrating photovoltaic panels (CPVs), today announced that the Company and its partners have applied for a permit to build a solar grid field in excess of 700kW in Spain. read full article »

Rocky Hill, Conn., August 25, 2008 – The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) today announced that the town of Avon, Conn., has joined the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program by committing to purchase at least 20% of its electricity for municipal facilities from clean, renewable .. read full article »

Homeowners in Monterey's Laguna Seca Ranch Estates (LSRE) are benefiting from a community buying program offered by leading solar solutions provider REC Solar to provide bulk discounts on solar electric systems for homes and businesses on the Highway 68 Sunbelt. read full article »

Chicago's Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA), the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau (CCTB) and the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) have announced that the Windpower 2009 Conference & Exhibition will be held in Chicago next year, at the McCormick Place Convention Center .. read full article »

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited announced that it has entered into a framework agreement with the local government of a county in Beijing, China regarding the proposed construction of a 10-megawatt (MW) solar energy plant. read full article »