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Clean-Energy Proposals In Congress Too Weak Says Renewables Industry

Grist | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Congress, Solar, Renewable Energy, Wind, Green Business, Green Energy, Energy, Green Jobs, Green News

Though they're pleased to see a federal RES moving forward in Congress, leaders in the clean-energy industry say those plans are way too weak. If the...

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Hats off to a Bright Green Future

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green

Read More: UC Berkeley, Green, Cap and Trade, Graduation, Solar, Green News
Cameron Sinclair

Roland Saekow, a recent UC Berkeley graduate, helped to pass the Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) legislation on campus, which generates $200,000 annually for green projects at Berkeley.

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Green or Growth: A False Choice Recycled by the Right

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Biomass, Solar, Colony Collapse Disorder, Biodiversity, Environment, Renewable Energy, Wind, Bats, Economic Growth, White Fungus, Honey Bees, Ccd, Green News
Jeff Schweitzer

A disturbing trend has developed in which mainstream right-of-center pundits are regressing on issues of environmental protection.

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Making Sure Green Jobs are Good Jobs

Edwin D. Hill | Posted 06.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind, Edwin D. Hill, Renewable Energy, Solar, Green Jobs, Training, Ibew, Green, Green Business, Green News
Edwin D. Hill

A job in the new green energy economy can't just be another dead-end "McJob" that keeps our economy stuck in the past.

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RES Hangs on Two B's -- Bayh and Brownback

Jack Hidary | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Bayh, Brownback, Solar, Geothermal, Res, Renewable Energy, Wind, Bingaman, Senate Energy, Renewable Elecricity Standard, Green News
Jack Hidary

Senate leaders are dashing around to get one last yes vote for the Renewable Electricity Standard. The RES would be the first nationwide commitment to a minimum of solar, wind and geothermal energy.

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Energy COOL: Lighting up the Developing World

A. Siegel | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Efficiency, Poverty, Solar, Black Soot, Renewable Energy, Lighting, Business, Development, Solar Power, Global Warming, Green News
A. Siegel

Here's a discussion of some companies with Energy COOL business models for getting that efficient lighting into the homes of the world's poor and bringing more people to the web.

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Obama's First 100 Days of Coal: A Few Honest Words, Please

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Massey Energy, Dirty Coal, Solar, Green Jobs, TVA Coal Ash Pond Disaster, Renewable Energy, Wind, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Offshore Wind, Coal, Barack Obama, Department of the Interior, Epa, Biomass, Climate Change, Nancy Pelosi, James Hansen, Harry Reid, Mountaintop Removal, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Green Energy, Capitol Power Plant, Global Warming, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Let's hope the next 100 days bring us a real green jobs package for the coalfields.

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Tax Code Can Green Our Country

Rep. Mike Thompson | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Taxes, Tax Code, Solar, California, Green, Conservation, Green Taxes, Earth Day 2009, Earth Day, Environment, Green News
Rep. Mike Thompson

Since Congress passed my provisions to enhance these tax benefits on a temporary basis in 2006, we've seen a fifty percent increase in conservation easements.

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American Apparel, Naked

Waylon Lewis | Posted 05.22.2009 | Style

Read More: Solar, Patagonia, Dov Charney, Green, Eileen Fisher, Los Angeles, Eco, Made in China, Business, Hipsters, American Apparel, Ecofashion, Briefs, Naked, Hipster, Esl, Underwear, Sex, Fashion, Made in the USA, Waylon Lewis, Style News
Waylon Lewis

American Apparel's fashion sense is personal, retro, preppy, cute, disco, outre. Whatever their designers want to wear, it seems, they figure we'll want to wear. And most of the time they're right.

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SOLAR-POWERED CITY In Florida!

Posted 05.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Solar Powered City, Solar, Solar-Powered City Florida, Solar City, Green News

A release from real estate developer Kitson & Partners declares the first "solar powered city": * * * * * First Solar-Powered City to Fuel C...

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Solar Mirrors Can Heat Home Much More Cheaply

Ecogeek | Posted 05.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Solar, Home-Heating Solar, Solar Mirrors, Green Technology, Green News

Photovoltaics are wonderful, but there are some far cheaper ways to harness the power of the sun to do good work for us. Capturing the sun's heat with...

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Obama's California: The Arnold Alliance and More

William Bradley | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meg Whitman, Solar, Antonio Villaraigosa, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Poizner, Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles, Jerry Brown, Orange Country, Steve Westly, Green Tech, Barack Obama, Reagan Country, George W. Bush, Electric Cars, Bill Clinton, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, John McCain, John Garamendi, Hollywood, Politics News
William Bradley

President Barack Obama is back in the east after a whirlwind visit to California which pointed up his strengths and suggested some things he can do differently.

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Greening Buildings to Create Jobs

Gavin Newsom | Posted 04.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Green Jobs, Solar, Gavin Newsom, Academy of Sciences, Economy, President Obama, Environment, Green Building, Green, San Francisco, Jobs, Mayor Newsom, California, Green News
Gavin Newsom

New construction typically represents less than one percent of San Francisco's built environment in any given year. Greening existing buildings is more challenging than new construction.

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Live from DC - The Energy Summit

Jack Hidary | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Energy Grid, Harry Reid, Bill Clinton, Van Jones, Solar, Stimulus Bill, Wind Energy, Steven Chu, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Pelosi, Green Transmission, Energy Summit, Al Gore, Boone Pickens, Green Jobs, Green for All, Sierra Club, Rural Electric Cooperative, Solar Power, Bobby Kennedy, Andy Stern, Seiu, Green News
Jack Hidary

While clean energy broadly speaking is on the table, the summit is mainly focused on power transmission -- how do you get solar, wind and other renewables to the grid?

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Obama and the California Way On Climate

William Bradley | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Fran Pavley, Climate Change, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Greenhouse Gases, Fabian Nunez, Gray Davis, Global Warming, Jerry Brown, California, Solar, Renewable Energy, Wind, Oregon, Green News
William Bradley

This president isn't going to sacrifice the environment for short-term economic expedience. In fact, he seems to view environmental progress as key to economic progress.

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It's Electric: US Emissions Drop Further

Dennis Markatos | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind, Oil, Efficiency, Solar, Electricity, Carbon Emissions, Coal, Natural Gas, Stimulus Package, Green News
Dennis Markatos

A focus on green jobs in the stimulus package can keep emissions on a downward trajectory throughout the next several years and provide ancillary benefits.

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Solar Energy Reality Check

Huffington Post | Rob Lamkin | Posted 02.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Solar Panels, Energy, Slideshow, Solar, Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Environment, Energy Crisis, Myths, Solar Power, Green News

Solar energy is the most promising source of clean, renewable energy. It is also one of the most misunderstood. Myths about solar energy--its challen...

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Tattletale House Knows When You're Not Green (And So Do Neighbors)

New York Times | Steven Kurutz | Posted 02.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Efficiency, Green Insulation, Solar, Green Architecture, Green Building, Green Buildings, Leds, Portland Oregon, Green News

Most homeowners have a general sense of whether or not they are being energy efficient, a hunch confirmed or disproved when the monthly bills arrive. ...

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For the Pickens Plan to Work, People Have to Misunderstand It

Josh Nelson | Posted 02.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, T. Boone Pickens, Energy Policy, Wind, Transportation, Energy Play, Solar, Pickens Plan, Natural Gas, Oil, Foreign Oil, Global Warming, Natural Gas Vehicles, Climate Change, Alternative Energy, Sustainability, Green News
Josh Nelson

Nobody who knows what they are talking about really thinks it makes much sense to replace our dependence on one dirty fossil fuel with another.

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Native America and Green Jobs: Spring Wind Rising from Sand Creek

Jeff Biggers | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Environment, Green Jobs, Winona LaDuke, Indian Reservations, Wind, Department of Interior, Native Americans, Fossil Fuels, Solar, Department of Energy, Green Recovery, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Recognizing that poverty rates on reservations are twice the national average, Native groups called for support to "operate a new crop of renewable electricity generating infrastructure."

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Stimulate with Solar -- Let's Get America Working Now for the Future

Jack Hidary | Posted 02.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Solar, Obama, Solar Energy, Tax Credit, Solar Power, Green News
Jack Hidary

In terms of "shovel-ready" projects, solar is able to deliver jobs and clean energy quickly at a great return on investment.

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Obama, Arnold, And The Renewed Climate Change Fight

William Bradley | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Steve Westly, Solar, Tony Blair, United Nations, Wind, Renewable Energy, Copenhagen, European Union, Kyoto, Arnold Schwarzenegger, John MCain, Brazil, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Greenhouse Effect, California, John White, Indonesia, Mike Huckabee, Climate Change, Jerry Brown, Obama Transition, San Francisco, Hillary Clinton, Fran Pavley, Fabian Nunez, Oregon, Politics News
William Bradley

Despite many rumors, don't look for Schwarzenegger in the Obama administration, at least not now, though candidate Obama mentioned him several times as someone he'd like to appoint.

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Transition Topic II: Energy Independence

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Energy Efficiency, Solar, Geothermal, Energy Dependence, Environment, Oil, Drilling, Renewable Energy, Wind, Obama Energy Policy, Obama Transition, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeff Schweitzer

All the elements embedded in Obama's energy program make good sense, and deserve our enthusiastic support. But wind, solar and geothermal energy are not the ultimate endpoint.

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Journey to the Center of a Windmill

Summer Rayne Oakes | Posted 12.01.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, G Word, Solar, S Renewable Energy, Discovery, Cnbc, Windmills, Renewable Energy, Alternative Energies, Wind Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Action, Wind Turbines, Discovery Planet Green, Entertainment News
Summer Rayne Oakes

In between doing some Planet Green events I've been filming for G Word, one of Discovery's new shows. Here's a recap on one of my favorite episodes. S...

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Greening Hollywood: Organic Hair Care

Paige Donner | Posted 11.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Green Living, Nrdc, Tea Tree Oil, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Paul Mitchell, Clean Air Salon, Hamadi Beauty, John Masters, Environmental Working Group, Oceanic Charities, John Paul DeJoria, Safe Cosmetics, Wind Energy, Con Edison, Jamal Hammadi, Solar, John Masters Organics, Awapuhi, Green News
Paige Donner

A study released this week found 16 toxic chemicals in blood and urine samples from 20 teen girls from eight states and the District of Columbia, aged 14-19.

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