Living Green Exhibit - 15 City Tour

Source: WikipediaLiving Green Exhibit - 15 City Tour
Excerpt:
"San Francisco’s Union Square may be noted for its abundance of shopping, hotels, tourist joints, and even outside movies; but, a Green Home? Don’t call your Green Real Estate agent quite yet. The temporary green home occupied the prime real estate last week as part of the Better Homes and Gardens & Green Works Living Green exhibit.

The green traveling exhibit offered surprisingly educational and eye-catching examples of various water savings devices, energy star appliances, sustainable countertops, flooring, and furniture. Even though I didn’t stick around to hear the speakers (some of whom I know) the lineup offered an impressive array of green builders, designers and other knowledgeable types in the green industry."

Renewable tax credits likely to run out, leaving investment at home hanging

Renewable tax credits likely to run out, leaving investment at home hanging
Excerpt:
"On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed bill H.R. 5351 to renew a standing investment tax credit for solar, as well as wind, biofuels and other renewable sources. But as in the past, the bill faces stiff resistance in the Senate and a veto from President Bush.

Most media sources have reported on the bill as if its future is still uncertain, but the general feeling among analysts, entrepreneurs and VCs that I’ve talked to is fairly gloomy. Most expect that the credits will run out, leaving the industry in the lurch until the changing of the guard in 2009."

World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Coming to Arizona

World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Coming to Arizona
Digg:
"The lucky sunny state of Arizona is about to become home to the world’s largest Solar Plant! Thanks to a just-announced contract between Abengoa Solar and Arizona Public Service Company (APS), the enormous solar plant called Solana will power up to 70,000 homes, and will be the first example in the country of a major utility..."

Supercomputer unleashes 9.0 megaquake in Pacific Northwest

Supercomputer unleashes 9.0 megaquake in Pacific Northwest
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"A virtual similation of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake which occured in Jan 1700 in thePacific Northwest has worried scientists - and is bad news for residents of downtown Seattle."

Cleantech investment in 2007 up 43 percent, tops $3 billion

Excerpt:
"The latest set of figures on cleantech investment in 2007 are out, compiled by Dow Jones VentureSource, showing a total of $3.04 billion in deals around the world with a solid 83 percent of all deals sourced in the United States.

The Dow Jones numbers look even more bubbly in some ways than the Thompson Financial / NVCA stats we reported back in November, which had cleantech investment for the first three quarters of the year at $2.6 billion. Dow Jones counts deals differently, and didn’t include some of the mega-fundings like the $500 million investment in Delta Hydrocarbon BV that Thompson factored into its total.

Instead, Dow Jones counted up dozens of small deals, painting a picture of rapid sector expansion. Deal volume in the United States alone was up 54 percent, with the category of alternative energy production notably ballooning to 76 deals — well up from the 2005 and 2006 numbers of 22 and 47, respectively. Th deal volume in Europe was almost flat, but investment rose 27 percent to €266 million."

http://www.theindustrystandard.com/news/2008/02/29/cleantech-investment-2007-43-percent-tops-3-billion

US Ready To Accept Binding Emissions Obligations

Excerpt:
"The U.S. is ready to accept "binding international obligations" on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to James Connaughton and Daniel Price, environmental and economics advisers to President Bush, BBC reports. The Bush administration wants some kind of binding commitment from major developing countries such as China, India and Brazil."
http://blogs.nbcuni.com/greenisuniversal/2008/02/us_ready_to_accept_binding_emi.html

Renewable Energy Leaders Urge Congress, Bush to Extend Tax Credits Quickly

Renewable Energy Leaders Urge Congress, Bush to Extend Tax Credits Quickly
Excerpt:
"Citing the possibility of job losses by the hundreds of thousands and the impact on a weakening economy, leaders of four major U.S. renewable energy trade associations Tuesday called on Congress and President Bush to extend production and investment tax credits that renewable energy developers, their financiers, and local and state governments are counting on to generate tax revenues and cleaner electricity."

DOE Begins Search for 2008 Solar America Cities

DOE Begins Search for 2008 Solar America Cities

Excerpt:
"Large cities with high electricity demand can now apply to be a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2008 Solar City. Yesterday the DOE announced that the 2008 Solar America Cities program will fund up to twelve cities that demonstrate their commitment to building a sustainable solar infrastructure."

http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=50459&src=rss

China, the US, and Space Solar Power

China, the US, and Space Solar Power

Green Building Plays Catch-Up in the US Midwest

Green Building Plays Catch-Up in the US Midwest

Warm Winter Predicted For United States

Warm Winter Predicted For United States

Fed seeks to spur green energy investment with guarantees

Fed seeks to spur green energy investment with guarantees

Excerpt:
"The Federal government is backing investments in clean energy projects, providing $2 billion in loan guarantees to 16 companies.

The guarantee program differs from recent Department of Energy grants (our coverage on some of those here and here) in that the companies are not given money by the government. The program is more akin to having a cosigner on a loan."

http://venturebeat.com/2007/10/05/fed-seeks-to-spur-green-energy-investment-with-guarantees/

Conservationists Sue Bush Administration for Suppression of Global Warming Documents

Conservationists Sue Bush Administration for Suppression of Global Warming Documents

Americans Remain Pessimistic About The Environment, Survey Finds

Americans Remain Pessimistic About The Environment, Survey Finds

US pushes voluntary steps to fight global warming

US pushes voluntary steps to fight global warming

Brown urges US to accept carbon limits

Brown urges US to accept carbon limits

Climate change is killing US forests

Climate change is killing US forests

SunPower To Receive $24 M in Funding from U.S. DOE

SunPower To Receive $24 M in Funding from U.S. DOE

US Climate Change Science Program Making Good Progress, National Academies Report

US Climate Change Science Program Making Good Progress, National Academies Report

Majority of American Public Opposes Mountaintop Removal

Majority of American Public Opposes Mountaintop Removal