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New York Senate Passes Sweeping Solar Legislation in Unanimous Vote
The New York State Senate this week passed legislation that solidifies the state's long-term commitment to solar energy. The New York Solar Bill, which received unanimous senatorial support, extends for ten years the NY-Sun Initiative, a public-private partnership designed to encourage growth in New York's solar industry by investing in solar technology and reducing the cost of installing solar panels. Announced during Governor Andrew Cuomo's 2012 State of the State Address, the NY-Sun Initiative was established to quadruple the amount of customer-sited solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity added between 2011 and 2013. To support the program...
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Weather Events and their Effects on Climate Change
Example of Extreme Weather EventEvents like snowmageddon while not proving climate change exists are indeed examples o...
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"We're All Cousins, After All"
TAG LINES Today's posting, drawn as ineluctably forth as a child by a piece of candy, emanates from the decision t...
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News: Businesses Incorporating Climate Change into Strategy
Businesses are Developing a Strategy for Going GreenIn the U.S. and around the world, the initial reluctance to addres...
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What Steps are You Taking to Reduce your Carbon footprint?
We as Individuals Can Take Steps to Reduce Carbon Dioxide EmissionsGreening the Earth really starts at the grassroots,...
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What Would be the Ideal Climate Bill?
Climate Change should be Addressed. It appears that the climate bill that was before the Senate is not going to be add...
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Solar Energy's Sustainable Business Growing Fast in Italy
While the US struggles to implement basic policies to encourage renewable energy growth, solar energy's sustainable bus...
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Provides Energy Incentives for Sustainable Businesses
DURING THE THIRD CLEAN ENERGY SUMMIT, THE IRS HAD AN INFORMATION BOOTH SET UP TO HELP SUSTAINABLE BUSINESSES UNDERSTAND...
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More Highly Educated Resources and Renewable Energy
TAG LINES For many centuries, a darkly ironic conception of justice ruled in Dixie. "Just Us" referred to the accu...
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Stop Carbon Emissions. Stop the Renewable Energy Standard.
The main problem with the failed cap-and-trade legislation is that we will be generating runaway carbon emissions fo...
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"Dark as a Dungeon"--Coal's Dark Lessons for Sustainable Business
TAG LINES Repeatedly, in these pages and in my work more generally, I have ever insisted that the surface of things...
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Trash and Bacteria Remain Supreme in Biofuel Manufacturing
Biofuels have the potential to come from any number of sources. On one end of the spectrum we have a variety of crops a...
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Transitioning to a Renewable Energy Posture
TAG LINES Certainty is for suckers; such a view seems especially true in regard to such complicated matters of soc...
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Energy Tremors in Indian Country
Imagine if some corporation discovered coal under your house, and you were powerless to stop them from extracting it. (...
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A New Report Asks the US and India to Take Solar Energy Into Space
Several months ago, I mentioned the Shimizu Corporation's plan to place solar panels on the moon to generate renewable...
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Fossil Fuels: For How Long are they the Dominant Energy?
In essence, it seems all the talk about energy independence, turning to renewables, etc., it seems that fossil fuels ha...
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Hydropower: Should it be Part of the U.S. Energy Portfolio?
During the New Deal, the Tennessee Valley Authority was created and provided hydropower energy to areas that had not pr...
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Opportunity Costs and Sustainable Business
TAG LINES The concept of 'opportunity cost' is one of those fairly easy-to-grasp notions that we often forget about...
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Geothermal Energy: What is its Future?
With the many renewable energy sources that can be tapped into, one that has not gotten a lot of attention like wind or...
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The Art of Communicating Climate Change to the Public
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="427" caption="Improve Climate Change Communication: Explain Local Immediate Imp...
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A Renewable Energy Teaching Moment
TAG LINES Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, whether most people are applying it to renewable energy or a suggest...
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