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Follow The Money: California’S Pension Funds
Aug 21 2015 09:00 PM | eds in Green Living
California’s 2 public pension funds lost over . . . $5 billion over the last year due to investments in the top . . . 200 fossil fuel companies. “Fossil fuel stocks are volatile investments. Investors and fiduciaries should take this moment to re...
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“It’S Time To Act,” Says Nrdc
Jul 30 2015 01:35 PM | eds in Green Living
“Climate change is the central environmental challenge of our generation. . . . We may be running out of time, . . . but, as the Clean Power Plan illustrates, . . . we are not running out of solutions. For the sake of our children, and . . . all future...
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World’S Tallest Passive House
Jul 15 2015 12:55 PM | eds in Green Living
Cornell Tech is building an applied sciences campus, . . . on Roosevelt Island in New York City. A 250 foot tall residential high rise dormitory building, designed to house, . . . 520 people when it’s completed in 2017, . . . the dormitory will be the...
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Follow The Money: Nuclear Is “Too Difficult”
Jul 28 2014 12:55 PM | eds in Green Living
Less than one month, . . . after Australia’s Silex Systems, placed its solar technology assets up for sale, . . . to focus on uranium enrichments, . . . it has been dealt a massive blow by the suspension of its nuclear ambitions. Those dreams are no...
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Does Fema Know About This?
May 08 2013 08:30 PM | eds in Green Living
Fashioning one-person tents . . . out of Glad ForceFlex bags, . . . distributing them to campers on condition they use the tents, . . . as garbage receptacles at the end of the a Music festival, . . . for all of their generated waste. Source: TentBag
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New Jersey’S Electricity: 80% Renewables?
May 06 2015 09:35 PM | eds in Green Living
New Jersey is only one of 3 states in the U.S.A., . . . with over 1 GW of installed solar power. Currently, New Jersey gets most of its electricity from, . . . nuclear power, and natural gas. One of its reactors is the oldest in operation in the Unite...
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China’S Global #energy Interconnection
Apr 15 2018 09:40 PM | eds in Green Living
China’s proposed global energy interconnection, based on: . . . . . . Renewables, . . . . . . UHV transmission, and an . . . . . . AI-enabled smart grid, . . . represents the boldest, and . . . most inspiring global initiative by any government, . . ....
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Australia’S Largest Energy Utility
Aug 22 2013 01:55 PM | eds in Green Living
Australia’s largest energy utility, Origin Energy, is facing . . . falling demand, . . . excess capacity, . . . the mass movement of customers seeking cheaper electricity bills, . . . the growing adoption of rooftop solar . . . more energy efficient a...
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Ontario One Of World’S Largest Energy Storage S...
Jan 24 2016 12:25 AM | eds in Green Living
The 13 MW/53 MWh energy storage system, . . . will stand as one of the largest grid ancillary storage services projects, . . . in North America. Anil Srivastava, CEO of Leclanché, . . . said he hopes to start the construction in spring 2016, and . . ....
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Ted Cradle To Cradle Design
Sep 02 2015 01:45 AM | eds in Green Living
Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough, . . . asks what our buildings. and products would look like. . . . if designers took into account "all children, all species, for all time." 9-01-2015 Source: TED Cradle to Cradle Design
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Epa’S Clean Power Plan
Jun 08 2015 06:25 PM | eds in Green Living
EIA’s analysis of the, . . . Environmental Protection Agency’s, . . . proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP), . . . shows that renewables play a critical role. The Key, is the timing and extent, that wind and solar additions occur, . . . as well as reti...
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New York’S Rev-Olution
May 30 2016 02:30 PM | eds in Green Living
Superstorm Sandy came ashore in New York, creating: . . . . . . massive storm flooding, . . . . . . gasoline shortages, and . . . . . . more than a week of power outages. Sandy’s devastation revealed critical gaps, . . . in New York’s utility infrastru...
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Cheap, Tough, And Green
May 11 2015 03:00 PM | eds in Green Living
Ever heard the expression, “dirt cheap?” . . . Of course you have, because dirt is cheap. . . . It’s everywhere. . . . No matter where you go, there it is. As a building material, rammed earth is cheap, tough, and green. . . . So why is not used more...
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Has Energy Reached “Peak" Centralisation?
Sep 13 2014 12:00 AM | eds in Green Living
Centralization has taken place in: . . . . . . manufacturing, . . . . . . education, . . . . . . health care, . . . . . . government, . . . . . . electricity, . . . . . . natural gas, and . . . . . . oil. Yet there are signs that suggest that this tid...
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Climate Change
Feb 07 2014 05:30 PM | eds in Green Living
Watch 60 Years Of Climate Change In 15 Seconds. After NASA scientists analyzed data from . . . 1,000 meteorological stations from around the globe, . . . they found a strange pattern. http://www.fastcoexi...e-in-15-seconds
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Germany’S Utilities Pinched By Renewables
May 12 2015 11:10 PM | eds in Green Living
North Rhine-Westphalia, the German state, . . . that’s home to utilities RWE AG and EON SE, . . . is losing its standing as the country’s powerhouse, . . . as wind and solar energy begin to displace conventional sources. In one of the most ambitious...
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Towns Look To ‘Micro-Grids’
Feb 08 2016 05:00 PM | eds in Green Living
There is a national campaign, . . . to develop “microgrids” designed to make the grid more resilient, and . . . communities more energy independent. An upstate New York town, that repeatedly found itself without power for days, . . . during a string o...
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China’S Climate Change Cost $6.6 Trillion
Jun 26 2015 01:40 PM | eds in Green Living
China’s lead negotiator, for the upcoming United Nations climate negotiations, . . . has suggested it would cost China over $6.6 trillion, . . . to meet its own greenhouse gas reduction targets. What’s most important is, that recent studies and e...
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Led's: Heroes Of Efficiency
Nov 11 2014 03:25 PM | eds in Green Living
The Cheapest, Simplest and Quickest way of saving Money, . . . is to become more efficient with our use of energy. Light-emitting diodes, or LED light bulbs are quickly becoming more affordable and . . . even more efficient than compact fluorescent bul...
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#gigafactory: Australia’S
Aug 19 2017 12:45 PM | eds in Green Living
Energy Renaissance, Darwin, Australia, . . . has received support from the Northern Territory government, for its proposed . . . 1GWh lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant. It also claims the batteries produced at its Darwin plant, will have the:...
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Norway’S Coal Divestment
Jun 11 2015 04:55 PM | eds in Green Living
Norway was criticized by many, . . . for not actually divesting from coal companies, . . . despite its 2014 promise. However, within days of such criticism, . . . the Norwegian Parliament announced its intention, . . . to divest from companies that g...
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Home Aquaponics- Quick Animation
Feb 16 2016 11:15 PM | eds in Green Living
Home Aquaponics- Quick Animation
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2016 – China To Dominate Ev Sales
Dec 05 2015 11:05 PM | eds in Green Living
One of the main insights from JATO is, in EV sales: . . . China's, in 1st place, . . . Europe's, in 2nd place, and . . . North America's, in 3rd place. JATO Dynamics forecasts, . . . that plug-in electric car sales worldwide will exceed...
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Got A Big Energy Idea's?
Feb 23 2017 08:50 PM | eds in Green Living
Got a Big Energy Idea's?
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Want To Simplify Your Life?
Oct 02 2014 11:20 PM | eds in Green Living
Start with the a Basic, like Clothing. . . . Would you stop being a "Best Friend," . . . . . . to someone because of what they wore for clothing? . . . . . . . . . because it was out of date? . . . . . . . . . or something clashed? . . . . . ....
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