US energy company Xcel Energy announced today that they are now soliciting bids for what they intend to be Colorado’s largest photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant. The facility will be located in the San Luis Valley and produce about 13,700-megawatt hours of electricity per year.
The company wants construction to start this year and once […]
The 2006 edition of the WINDPOWER Conference and Exhibition is getting set to start spinning this coming June. The 3-day event - happening in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 4th to 7th - is the be there or be square get-together for the wind energy industry in North America.
They’re expecting over 4,000 attendees and 250 exhibitors […]
Yes, you read correctly - a solar powered windmill - which may seem strangely redundant, but it’s actually a model kit for educational purposes. The windmill uses solar power to demonstrate how a real windmill would work.
The kit consists of plastic parts, a solar panel and a motor. Just snap it together (some […]
The 20th edition of the Carnival of the Green is up and this week’s offerings are being hosted by Harlan and the gang at Greener Magazine.
My favorite has got to be Sameer’s post on the mileage of bicycles at Transmorgified. Sameer looks at how even though cycling is a human-powered endeavour, the food that […]
Here’s a cool looking conference that’s set to happen towards the end of next month in New York City. Local Solutions to Energy Problems will take place April 27th to 29th and is being co-sponsored by Peak Oil NYC and Local Energy Solutions, LLC.
In addition to educating folks on peak oil and the end […]
Here’s a great opportunity for anyone in the northeast US who’s interested in picking some skills and experience at installing small scale wind turbine systems. Cape & Islands Self Reliance, a cool non-profit organization that promotes eco-technologies and sustainable practices in the Cape Cod region of Massachusetts, is hosting a Small Wind Installer’s Apprentice […]
Jeff did a post at Sustainablog last week highlighting the recent study from Cornell that links childhood nature experiences with adult environmentalism (see here). Another way to get them hooked is with innovative educational programs in school and Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) is doing that in a big way in California.
In what’s now […]
“Gentlemen, please step away from the bong!”
I kid you not. The March 2006 issue of Business 2.0 has got a story on the Space Island Group (SIG) and their ‘dramatic but realistic proposal‘ to build space-based solar energy fields. From an article at MarketWatch.com…
According to B20, early in the next decade SIG will […]
Shea Gunther, the Musing Eco-Entrepreneur, has announced that he’s going to start a weekly hour-long chat for folks to get together and yap about green business. It’s going to be fairly informal and the goal is to get to know some other green biz folks and have a good time. A sort of […]
In a show of political leadership that is too rare and yet so encouraging, Ted Kulongoski, the Governor of the state of Oregon, has revealed that he wants to see his state government running on 100% renewable energy within four years. A lofty goal for sure, even more so when you consider that the […]
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