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3.09.2012
Germany to Install Record Solar Panels This Year, DIHK Says Bloomberg
Bloomberg - 4 hours ago
Germany will probably install a record amount of solar panels this year even as the world's biggest market for the industry plans to cut subsidies, according to the DIHK national industry and trade chambers.
Solar energy-harvesting “nanotrees” could produce hydrogen fuel on a mass scale Gizmag
Gizmag - 8 hours ago
Like forests, this structure maximizes the amount of solar energy that can be captured, with the vertical structures trapping and absorbing the light, while the flat surfaces reflect it.
Global installed wind capacity has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 27% over the last 10 years sacramento bee
Sacramento Bee - 18 hours ago
By Kline & Company PARSIPPANY, NJ, March 8, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Global installed wind capacity has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 27% over the last 10 years, according to the recently published report Lubricants for Wind Turbines 2011: ...
Wind Energy Industry Boosted by Booming Repowering Market REVE
REVE - 5 hours ago
Installed wind farm capacity is set to increase as wind power markets are expected to witness massive growth in multiple regions, following a temporary decline caused by the global recession.
Privately generated wind energy picking up RenewablesBiz
RenewablesBiz - 14 hours ago
Anchored into the ground by concrete footings and supported by steel cables on a 70-foot tower is the retired Newton public works employee's private source of wind power. "We're green, and we eventually want to get off the grid," Swank said about his ...
'Strong Women, Strong World:' Working to End the Cycle of Poverty and ... Christian Post
Christian Post - Mar 8, 2012
WOV is a volunteer ministry of the well-known 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization World Vision. World Vision serves as a Christian humanitarian organization to tackle the challenges of global poverty and injustice in over 100 countries around the world.
It Takes Women to End Global Poverty Women's eNews
Women's eNews - 10 hours ago
By Cassandra Q. Butts Women produce half of the world's food, earn 10 percent of the world's income and own less than 1 percent of the world's property. The US Government's Millennium Challenge Corporation says its anti-poverty efforts aim to change ...
UN chief says anti-poverty goals can be metWNCT
Al-Arabiya - 3 hours ago
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said there has been “broad progress” in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in reducing poverty, but some regions like sub-Saharan Africa are not seeing progress yet. (Reuters) By Reuters The world has been able ...
Closer Look: Deep Poverty in Retreat, Even Through the Great Recession New York Times
New York Times (blog) - 20 hours ago
By ANDREW C. REVKIN The good news that (happily) violated that norm and rippled in headlines this week came in a World Bank report showing a broad reduction in deep poverty and concluding that the great global recession did not increase poverty in the ...
Piedmont group on hunger strike to support undocumented immigrant
My Fox 8 - 14 hours ago
Members from the group El Cambio, which translates to The Change, have been on a hunger strike since Monday night. “I feel so weak.
San Leandro students start hunger strike to protest school budget cuts Inside Bay Area
Inside Bay Area - Mar 7, 2012
By Jason Sweeney Three San Leandro High School students announced Tuesday night that they are holding a hunger strike to protest the fifth year of budget cuts in the school district.
Two-month hunger strike leaves Iranian blogger weak Storyful
Storyful - 2 hours ago
The Iranian blogger and government critic Mehdi Khazali entered his 61st day of hunger strike inside the notorious Evin prison in Tehran on Friday.
United Nations Hunger Strike By Tibetan Monks Enters 17th Day Village Voice
Village Voice (blog) - 2 hours ago
9 2012 at 6:00 AM Today marks the start of the 17th day of a hunger strike outside the United Nations building in midtown for three Tibetan monks who are protesting China's repression of Tibet, and demanding that the UN recognize their homeland as an ...
Hunger-Striking Students Finally See Some Progress for University of Virginia ... AlterNet
AlterNet - 5 hours ago
But they said they found strength and warmth in the growing support for the cause that had led them to launch a hunger strike. "It's hard not to eat," said Marguerite Beattie, a fourth-year psychology major, "but imagining what the workers are going ...
Israel must not bind itself to Netanyahu's vulgar rhetoric on Iran Haaretz
Haaretz - 4 hours ago
Anyone who cares about Israel's future could not help but feel a chill upon hearing Benjamin Netanyahu's recent speech at the AIPAC conference - if not because of the gravity of the existential threat it described, then because of its sheer vulgarity ...
Gestapo Terrorize Ghetto: Israeli settlers uproot & take 100 Olive trees owned by Palestinian ... The Muslim News
The Muslim News - 5 hours ago
Palestinian farmers, from the southern West Bank villages of Al Khadier and Beit Iskaria, announced that a group of [Israeli] settlers invaded on Thursday morning their lands and uprooted 100 young olive trees and took them away.
Israel's ex-spy chief says more efforts needed before considering attack on Iran Washington Post
Washington Post - 1 hour ago
JERUSALEM - The recently retired head of the Mossad intelligence agency has said Israel must consider alternatives to a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, but another expert said Friday an Israeli attack could come within months.
Global warming has chilling effect on forest budgets Real Aspen
Real Aspen - Mar 8, 2012
By Troy Hooper The warming climate is breeding more beetle-ravaged forest and prolonged fire seasons, US Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testified before a Senate committee on Tuesday, as he fielded questions about the White House's proposed agency ...
Michelle Obama's star turn Boston.com
Boston.com - 2 hours ago By Tracy Jan WASHINGTON - It is difficult to imagine now that Michelle Obama was once hesitant to uproot her family to Washington, wary of living out her life in a political fishbowl teeming with piranhas. |
3.08.2012
Dr. Jim Hansen, NASA, Comes of Age. Grows Up. GOD BLESS YOUR HEART, JIM.
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/
ThinkProgress - 9 hours ago
By Climate Guest Blogger on Mar 8, 2012 at 9:52 am “It would be immoral to leave these young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.” by Dan Miller NASA climate scientist James Hansen gave a talk at the TED conference in Long Beach, ...
US energy subsidies to favour fossil fuels over renewables Environmental Finance
Environmental Finance - 7 hours ago
The renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors received most of the US federal government's $24 billion in energy subsidies last year, but fossil fuels will win out this year as several key tax breaks for renewables have expired.
Global Alternative Energy Industry Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Bee - 8 hours ago
By Reportlinker The global outlook series on Alternative Energy provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings.
Native Americans Arrested Blockading Keystone XL Pipeline Trucks Environment News Service
Environment News Service - Mar 7, 2012
RAPID CITY, South Dakota, March 7, 2012 (ENS) - Several dozen Native Americans critical of TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline Monday blockaded two large trucks in a six-hour standoff at Wanblee, South Dakota.
Texans Fight to Protect Their Land From the Keystone XL Pipeline Huffington Post
Huffington Post - 7 hours ago
That's an expression Washington politicians and their Keystone XL tar sands pipeline allies should take to heart. Texas landowners say they are fed up with the exaggerated claims and false arguments that Big Oil boosters are making about pipeline plans ...
Floating Wind Turbines May Be Coming Soon to a Beach Near You cleantechnica
Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PST
Offshore wind turbines are placed to take advantage of strong, steady coastal winds. Their placement is in one way ideal – dependable energy, and lots of it – but it’s also not exactly easy to build a turbine tower in several feet of moving water. Related posts:DOE Cutting battery costs from about $1,000 per kWh in 2009 to $300 by 2015 and to $100 by 2030 tpg org
How The Recovery Act Will Make EVs Affordable For The 99%
The Department of Energy said it was aiming to cut battery costs from about $1,000 per kWh in 2009 to $300 by 2015 and to $100 by 2030. At the time it announced that goal, the only U.S. automaker shipping an electric car was a California startup, Tesla, and its battery cost $36,000 and weighed a whopping 992 pounds. Now, Envia, one of the companies funded, has just cut costs in half of future electric vehicle batteries.
Teen tobacco 'epidemic' shocks surgeon generalUSA TODAY
msnbc.com - 1 hour ago
CHICAGO - Smoking among America's youth has reached epidemic proportions, starting them on the path to a lifetime of addiction, the US surgeon general's office said in its first report on youth smoking since 1994.
Offshore Wind: the 21st Century FrontierCleanTechnica
Charlotte Observer - 2 hours ago
By Bruce Henderson One of North Carolina's most powerful energy resources, its offshore wind power, drew about 300 participants to a conference that began today at the Charlotte Convention Center.
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