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London Mayor – from hogwash to greenwash
London Mayor Boris Johnson is full of hogwash and greenwash…
June 23, 2010
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London Mayor Boris Johnson is full of hogwash and greenwash…
Here is a listing of some of the best Renewable Energy training courses around the United States. For a more thorough list, visit the Renewable Energy Training Catalog published by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council.
Also, check out this blog series from Mother Earth News contributing editor Dan Chiras about finding a green job in the field of renewable energy.
The Evergreen Institute’s Center for Renewable Energy and Green Building …
Off-Grid ideas are flowing from the classrooms of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford and Virginia University into commercial products in rural India.
Here’s a look at how a new generation of off-grid whiz-kids are creating affordable, scaleable, high-tech business models to improve quality of life in rural India.
An extraordinary bunch of entrepreneurs is attempting projects ranging from rural electrification to solar-powered refrigeration systems.…
The UK Government plans to launch a £1,000 billion ($1.44 Trillion) Green Investment Bank today. The Queen’s Speech, setting out the legislation for the next parliament, will include the Green Bank, which will be massively upgraded from the puny £2bn affair that the previous Labour government had been planning. It will be part of the Energy Security and Green Economy Bill.
There is expected to be a government-backed Green bond issuance to kick-start the anticipated programmes, focusing on investments with stable revenue schemes, such as the Feed-in tarrif for home-produced electricity.
Several senior Executives are vying to run the new bank, which will have a capitalisation of up to £20 billion, injected by the government at a rate of £2 billion per year. It will then leverage that capital to gain up to fifty times that funding from the private sector. The European Investment Bank operates on the same principle…
Midland 21 May — The Dow Chemical Co. has launched a show-home that it contends will eliminate utility bills, but at what price?
NAIROBI, May 18 (Reuters)
Anaerobic Digestion could transform the economics of livestock production and save energy, according to a packed workshop at the 2010 British Pig & Poultry Fair.Across Europe there are more than 4,000 anaerobic digester plants, but only 25 in the UK. …
Solar PV from off-grid sources will account for 1% of global electricity says the IEA, and 25% in total will be solar…
Sydney, Australia wants to end its dependence on centrally generated electricity for public buildings – it has started planning six tri-generation power plants with more to come…
Smart Grid not living up to its name – costly upgrade will likely increase profits of Utilities without saving customers money or energy…