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Reducing Power Bills To Save You Money
Business and Money Matters to Grow From | October 11th 2008 by Lucy Jones
How to reduce your electricity bill If you’re bogged down by the enormous electricity bills every month, it’s time to take some serious action by cutting your electricity bills following a few very simple steps. This article will list som read more
DOD Renewables Deployment Update
The DOD Energy Blog | October 11th 2008 by Andy Bochman
IEEE provides a nice round-up of current and near-future DOD renewables deployments. At 11.9% today, DOD is working overtime to reach its goal of 25% renewable power by 2025. Here's a few of them for you (I've listed capacities when provided):270 M read more
Boone Pickens Comes To Austin To Talk About Our Energy Crisis
Austin Texas Homes | October 10th 2008 by Shay Hargus
The billionaire and philanthropist, Boone Pickens visited the University of Texas in Austin , Texas on Thursday. During Pickens visit, he discussed our nation’s energy crisis and said he has come up with a solution for it. He sees natural gas a read more
Ericsson Unveils Wind-Powered Tower Tube
Clean Energy Leader | October 10th 2008
Ericsson unveiled its latest radio base station site concept; a wind-powered Tower Tube. The company worked with Vertical Wind AB and Uppsala University in Sweden to take its original Tower Tube concept one step further by employing renewable energy. read more
George Bush, Jay Leno and Ethiopia Install Wind Turbines
Green Tech Gazette | October 10th 2008 by Brad Hopkins
The alternative energy resource of wind energy is bringing some of the most unlikely characters and countries into the mix. Let’s start with President George H. W. Bush (love him or hate him, yeah I know) the prez has installed a residential wind t read more
Using Renewable Energy To Slash Your Power Bills
Plan My Green | October 10th 2008 by Ryan
With every hike in the price of electricity, more and more people are thinking about using renewable energy for at least part of their regular supply. What type of renewable energy you decide to use will likely be decided by whereabouts you live. If read more
Why Send Daniel Boone USAF Lt Col (ret) to the Texas Legislature?
Daniel Boone for Texas District 73 | October 9th 2008 by David Power
This election may well determine the future of our hill country. Our local population is forecast to quadruple by 2050, and this stresses our resources and infrastructure more each year. We have to get state functionaries out of our business and deve read more
Top 7 Eco-friendly and Green Web Hosting Choices for a Small Busi…
Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green | October 9th 2008 by Max Lee
If you are looking into eco-friendly and green web hosting for your new website, here’s Keetsa Blog’s recommendations and reviews of Top 7 prominent green hosting companies: Host Price/Month Domains Bandwidth Disk Links Good Avocado read more
STAR-TIDE's Mobile, Sustainable Power Solutions
The DOD Energy Blog | October 9th 2008 by Andy Bochman
Inspired in part by RMI's Amory Lovins, this is worth learning about, so please bear with me. Dr. Linton Wells, NDU Transformational Chair and Distinguished Fellow, and former Undersecretary of Defense for NII, briefed a small group of bloggers on We read more
Presidential Solar Power
the New American Village | October 9th 2008 by James Polk
Both John McCain and Barack Obama have indicated support for the development of wind and solar power.Obama proposes targeting research and development of alternative energies (primarily solar and wind) with $150 billion in seed money over the next 10 read more
Turbine Shortage Delays Projects
Clean Energy Leader | October 9th 2008
Wind turbine projects in Massachusetts and elsewhere are being delayed for up to two years due to a worldwide shortage of wind turbine parts, the Boston Globe reports. The situation is especially acute in the U.S. because wind power is growing faster read more
AT&T Releases Sustainability Report
Clean Energy Leader | October 9th 2008
AT&T Inc. released its 2007/2008 Citizenship and Sustainability Report (PDF). The company says it is reducing the environmental impact of its operations and helping customers find ways to reduce their impact through the use of information and com read more
Free Wind Power In Your Community?
Alternative Energy Foundation | October 9th 2008 by Damon
The Costs Of Free Energy A small town in northern Main has recently been offered free and clean electricity for the next 20 years. There is, however, one catch to this opportunity – 400 ft windmills are to be placed along a ridge surrounding a nea read more
British Canals to Become Green Power Stations
CleanTechnica | October 8th 2008 by Lucille Chi
SmartPlanet report that British Waterways is turning UK canals into alternative energy power stations. The company’s proposal calls for 50 wind turbines and assorted small-scale hydro-power schemes to be installed in canals and locations. In a read more
The World Bank on LAC and Climate Change / El Banco Mundial sobre…
The Temas Blog | October 7th 2008
The World Bank's Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Pamela Cox, had some interesting things to say yesterday about LAC and global climate change at the European Union (EU) - Latin American Forum organized by France.* She said t read more
Vodafone Powers Base Stations with Wind Turbines
Clean Energy Leader | October 7th 2008
Vodafone announced it has successfully begun generating electricity for its mobile communications network. The wind micro-generating system allows the company to achieve reductions of 15 percent to 20 percent in total electricity consumption and CO2 read more
Alternative Energy Is Our Future
Plan My Green | October 6th 2008 by Ryan
The availability of alternative energy comes in many different forms. One of these is solar power: Solar power is driven by photovoltaic cells, and these are progressively getting less expensive and more advanced. There aren’t any areas where solar read more
House Extends Renewable Energy Tax Credits
Clean Energy Leader | October 3rd 2008
Earlier this week, it seemed the tax measure passed by the U.S. House of Representatives may jeopardize the fate of renewable energy tax breaks. But today, after a second attempt, the House voted 263-171 in favor of a $700 billion bailout bill, which read more
Google Unveils $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan
Clean Energy Leader | October 3rd 2008
This week, Google unveiled a $4.4 trillion plan (in undiscounted 2008 dollars) to help America kick its fossil fuel habits by 2030. The search giant says the plan could return a net savings of $1 trillion over the 22-year life of the plan. In Septemb read more
Italian Wind Power Company Enel Opens Biggest Wind Farm in Kansas
CleanTechnica | October 2nd 2008 by Lucille Chi
Italian wind energy company Enel SpA has announced that it has inaugurated its biggest ever wind power project, a 250 megawatt U.S. farm. Enel said in a statement released earlier today that the Smoky Hills plant in Kansas will be fully operational b read more
Solar power and wind energy - DIY projects
Your Electronics Open Source Newsletter | October 2nd 2008
Solar power and wind energy - DIY projects is for all those who care of Mother Earth. These days more middle class, mainstream, citizens have the option of using alternative or renewable energy sources in their everyday lives. Solar and wind energy c read more
Wind Farms Not Bane of Birds Existence
CleanTechnica | October 1st 2008 by Lucille Chi
Environmentalists and anyone else attempting to derail wind farms have often turned to the fate of birds for scientific back up. In the case of the environmentalists, I’ll let it pass, but it’s when the senators and other politicians who have n read more
Off-Shore Wind Power brings the renewable energy revolution
Grendiary | September 30th 2008
To decrease fossil fuel dependency, many countries are trying to increase their renewable energy dependence. With respect to wind power, on shore wind has always been a convenient option, consisting of turbines on land. Individual turbines or... read more
E.ON Opens 335 MW Wind Power Site in Roscoe, Texas
CleanTechnica | September 30th 2008 by Lucille Chi
Last week, E.ON Climate and Renewables officially opened its massive new wind farm in Roscoe, Texas. The site is now capable of generating an impressive 335.5 MW of electricity, a figure set to rise to 781.5 MW when the farm is completed in mid-2009. read more
EPA’s New Google Earth Mash-Up of Renewable Energy Resources on…
CleanTechnica | September 29th 2008 by Lucille Chi
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a Google Earth-based interactive website that pinpoints opportunities for solar, wind or biomass siting on contaminated properties. The site combines the Google Earth platform with an EPA da read more
Home Helical Wind Turbine Unveiled in Poughkeepsie, NY
Green Tech Gazette | September 26th 2008 by Brad Hopkins
A home helical wind turbine built by local contractor Lawrence Scardaci has been unveiled in Poughkeepsie, New York. I’ve talked about helical shaped home wind turbines before especially rooftop wind generators and those like the Helix that can be read more
A new type of vertical axis wind turbine for city spaces
Technology for life | September 25th 2008 by Jose Luis
A 5 Kw prototype of a new type of wind turbine with vertical axis and horizontal blades is ready to make its market debut. It is a product developed by the company Indesmedia (IDM) EOL, based in Cantabria (Northern Spain). It is read more
Mini Kin Juices Gadgets with Wind Power
CleanTechnica | September 25th 2008 by Lucille Chi
Most small renewable energy chargers rely on solar power or more recently, kinetic energy. The Mini Kin takes a different approach—wind power. Read more of this story » read more
Holy Name High School Turbine
Straight Talk | September 25th 2008
When it comes to wind power in the North East of America or for that matter there isn’t much movement on the issue. Cape wind is held up and every other project is held up too. Till today! Holy Name High School in Worcester, Mass had it’s skyline read more
New Jersey Set to Boost Its Wind Power
Ecolocalizer | September 25th 2008 by Lucille Chi
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities is expected to vote next week on a $19 million plan to generate 350 megawatts of electricity with nearly 300 new wind turbines to be installed at various offshore locations. One part of Gov. Jon S. CorzineR read more
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