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Greener De-icing
Residents dig their cars out of the snow in Annandale, VA, on December 19, 2009. The runoff from deicers used to clear ice and snow from roadways and sidewalks can damage water supplies and ecosystems. This excerpted CAP guest post was first publi...
NRC panel of advocates for dead-end hydrogen cars, chaired by a former ExxonMobil executive, trashes plug-in hybrids in deeply flawed report, Part 1
[Please Digg this post by clicking here.] In a staggering lapse of judgment, the National Research Council let its panel of hydrogen advocates publish a deeply flawed report trashing plug-in hybrids. Last week, the NRC’s “Committee on As...
Exclusive interview with National Renewable Energy Laboratory director on solar thermal, PV, and algae
So I just got a new Flip UltraHD camcorder in preparation for my trip to Copenhagen. Indeed, the entire Center for American Progress team will be outfitted with Flips to bring you as many video interviews as possible with the 20,000 attendees from...
How to create 1.7 million clean energy jobs
The challenges facing President Obama and the U.S. Congress have not gone away. Paul Krugman worries that “unemployment is likely to stay near its current level for a year or more,” because “much of the political establishment now sees stimulu...
Kenya to build huge wind farm as devastating drought curtails hydropower
In January, a consortium of Dutch and Kenyan investors will begin construction on the $760 million project, which envisions more than 350 wind turbines towering over desert expanses near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. When completed in 2012, the wi...
Clean Energy for the Wild Blue Yonder: Expanding Renewable Energy and Efficiency in the Air Force
Solar arrays are seen at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, NV. The Air Force can start using more renewable energy and become more energy efficient while saving taxpayers money. This guest post by Alexandra Kougentakis, Tom Kenworthy,...
USGBC jobs finds “Green building to support nearly 8 million U.S. jobs over next 4 years”
USGBC/Booz Allen Hamilton Report Shows Green Construction to Contribute $554 Billion to U.S. GDP Between 2009 and 2013. The U.S. Green Building Council is having its huge annual conference now — you can watch live streams and archived videos o...
Should electric cars be intentionally made noisier?
This is a guest post by Chelsea Sexton, my friend and costar of the 2006 documentary film “Who Killed the Electric Car?“ At a young age, Chelsea began working for GM marketing their ill-fated electric car, the EV1. She even married an EV1 se...
Can’t teach an old car company new tricks — not even when it’s under new management
Despite promises to fast-track development of three electric car models using federal loan dollars to prevent its bankruptcy, Chrysler announced yesterday that it will instead disband the engineering team responsible for the projects. For decades Ch...
David Frum says “Conservatives Heart Nuke Power.” Too bad they don’t “brain” it.
I always thought it was conservatives who accused progressives of being driven by their heart and not their brain. A painfully uninformed David Frum wades into the debate over nuclear power with a post headlined, “Conservatives Heart Nuke Pow...
Ecologist George Woodwell on Cape Cod Wind and Copenhagen: “We have poisoned our global habitat and must move rapidly to correct the trend.”
Today’s guest blogger is Dr. George M. Woodwell, founder, Director Emeritus and Senior Scientist at the The Woods Hole Research Center. He has published more than 300 papers in ecology. His “research has been on the structure and f...
Road to Copenhagen, Part 3: Re-Tooling Industry
In case we need more evidence that an urgent economic transformation is required to avoid catastrophic climate change, it can be found in a new study commissioned by World Wildlife Fund International. Conducted by Climate Risk Pty. Ltd. of Great Brit...
Solar power when the sun goes down — with help from United Technologies
Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload) remains “The technology that will save humanity.” And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see “World’s largest solar plant with thermal stor...
Greening Your Small Business
CP’s newest guest blogger is Jennifer Kaplan, founder of Greenhance LLC, which offers small businesses environmentally friendly marketing and graphic design. She also teaches marketing at Marymount University in Arlington, VA. Her new book fr...
Nearly 200 organizations and companies urge Senate to adopt key energy-efficiency provision in climate bill
A diverse coalition of nearly 200 business, labor, civil rights, and environmental groups have sent a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) urging her to support an important energy-efficiency ...
Breaking: Toshiba tells San Antonio its new twin $13 billion nukes will cost $4 billion more! The city balks. This looks like a job for clean energy.
One of the very first new nuclear power plants proposed to be built in the U.S. in over 30 years just hit a brick wall. It’s the same brick wall — absurdly high cost — being hit around the world (see “Nuclear Bombshell: $26...
U.S. wind energy industry installed 1,649 MW in third quarter, more than Q2 and Q308
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) released its third quarter (Q3) market report today. Their news release noted: Since the early July announcement of rules to implement the stimulus bill, the wind industry has seen over 1,600 MW (enough ...
Senate, Consider Deforestation as Part of Climate Bill
This is a Roll Call op-ed by Lincoln Chafee, former Republican Senator from Rhode Island, and John Podesta, former White House chief of staff and CEO of the Center for American Progress. The source of the graphic is the Millennium Ecosystem Assess...
Science: CO2 levels haven’t been this high for 15 million years, when it was 5° to 10°F warmer and seas were 75 to 120 feet higher — “We have shown that this dramatic rise in sea level is associated with an increase in CO2 levels of about 100 ppm
You would have to go back at least 15 million years to find carbon dioxide levels on Earth as high as they are today, a UCLA scientist and colleagues report Oct. 8 in the online edition of the journal Science. “The last time carbon dioxide lev...
New report finds 31 states have the renewable resources to be “energy self-reliant”
A new report from the New Rules Project finds that over 60% of all U.S. states have the renewable energy resources to be “energy self-reliant.” (“Energy self-reliance,” as defined in the report, is a measure of how self-sufficient in energy g...
Going Green for the Team
Global warming, left unchecked, will have a huge impact on most sports, since a great many are played outdoors during the summer (for now) — or rely on cold weather and snow during the winter. As this CAP post suggests, some sports teams are...
Solar Decathalon 2009 Innovations, Part 1: Integrated Site Design
This guest post on the Solar Decathalon is excerpted from The Dirt, the blog of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). The Solar Decathalon homes are open to the public from October 9-13 and 15-18. Future posts will feature other fi...
