Solar power price tag plummets, but climate change is making disaster relief...
While the Trump administration continues to boost dying fossil fuel industries, the rest of the world is stepping up to the true bargain of solar power.In 2016, the record low unsubsidized solar energy...
View ArticleDr. Conway's Climateside Chat, No. 2: A Cloudy Future for U.S. Solar?
Today’s column features special guest co-author Shannon Nichols, and is reposted as always from our Greenpower blog. Happy Reading.While the news is preoccupied by the many gaffes of the Trump...
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The Inoculation Project 12/10/2017: Global environmental challenges
This week, we're helping to provide hands-on materials that tackle environmental challenges for a 5th-grade classroom in San Antonio, Texas, and games and activities for a Learning Commons in an...
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Size Matters, Whether You're Talking About Solar Panels or Green Waves.
Two items of interest in the NY Times today. Here’s the first: In Shadow of Mt. Etna, Europe Makes a Last Stand for Solar. Stanley Reed and Keith Bradsher report on efforts in Italy by a company...
View ArticleA Great Dilemma: How to write, and act, about the natural world when it's...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:I was supposed to write, this morning, about the largest solar power project east of the Mississippi, something I’ve been “excavating” over the past two weeks,...
View ArticleChina crushes US in new power transmission infrastructure to carry renewable...
We interrupt the mainstream media narrative about fake infrastructure (Trump’s border wall) with news about real infrastructure.China’s main grid operator has powered up its biggest transmission line...
View ArticleOh Noes! Wind & Solar getting cheaper!?! Whatever will Donald do?
It’s no secret that the coal industry is in sharp decline. In fact, one of the pillars of the Trump Campaign was schmoozing residents of coal towns, promising to bring coal roaring back, reviving the...
View ArticleRenewable Power Becoming Cheaper than Coal
Despite Donald Trump’s best lies, renewable wind and solar power continue to spread and develop as very realistic replacements for fossil fuels.Here’s a site with resources detailing the...
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PWB Peeps Moondai Evening: Earth Dai!
Since Earth Dai is such an important dai, we interrupt our regularly scheduled Moondai mashery of Ogden Nashery to bring the top 10 things that you can do about climate change. We can all do our part...
View ArticleSolar Panel Carport Installations a Win-Win
I take a class at my local community college. I usually park in a small lot next to the building where my class is held. A couple of weeks ago I had occasion to visit another part of the campus. As...
View ArticleBloomberg Gives $500 million in Effort to Close All US Coal Plants by 2030
www.nytimes.com/...Former New York City mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg said today he would give half a billion dollars in effort to close all coal fired US electric plants and promote...
View ArticleUK To Legislate for Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050
The UK’s Climate Change Act of 2008 mandated a reduction of 80% in emissions of all greenhouse gases by 2050. Today the outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the Act will be ammended to...
View ArticleWhy *conventional* nuclear energy cannot possibly be the solution to the...
1st premise. The solution to the climate crisis is to electrify everything, and to generate the electricity from (ideally) zero-carbon sources.[1]2nd premise. Humanity’s total power consumption is...
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U.S. renewable energy generation just surpassed coal for the first time ever
Donald Trump has staked his grubby little political future in part on a supposed renaissance in dirty, backward-looking industries like coal production.Unfortunately for him, the world doesn’t stand...
View ArticleSaving The Environment by Picking The Low-Hanging Fruit
Accomplishing the things that can easily and inexpensively be done nowThe global consensus to combat rapid Climate Change has gained steam throughout much of the world over the last decade. With the...
View ArticleThe 21st Century Will be The Solar Powered Century
As the world goes through massive technological changes and innovations in its power supply systems, it is becoming increasingly clear that electricity from solar power will be the dominant force in...
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Battery Electric Vehicles Will Dominate the Future — Here’s Why
The vast majority of people alive today only know a world fueled by oil. Because of its abundance and usefulness as an energy source, oil has driven industrialization of many a country, has been the...
View ArticleGov Jay Inslee in Des Moines - He correctly said,"I am not a one trick...
Governor Jay Inslee was speaking at the Political Soap Box in Des Moines Iowa ! He did a great job and here are some of the things he said (what I caught on C-Span) :Completely eliminate using coal !...
View ArticleDenmark willing to trade Greenland for Texas and Florida
Dear President Donald TrumpThe Mar-a-Lago Club,1100 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, FL 33480 The Danish Government has reconsidered your proposal and given it a thorough evaluation. While we are not...
View ArticleUpper Midwest News Roundup -- October 2 Edition
Here’s some stories of interest for folks in the Upper Midwest.Sherburne County, Minnesota, is not exactly a bastion of forward thinking. It sits smack in the middle of the 6th CD — Michelle Bachmann...
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