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  • Karl Burkart: Solar goes Hyper in the U.S.
  • Karl Burkart: Solar goes Hyper in the U.S.
  • As the U.S. government continues to heap billions in subsidies to the world’s wealthiest coal and oil companies, the solar industry has been struggling to make it here in the states. This is sad for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that we’re missing out on one of the biggest growth industries in [...]... Read more »

  • Todd Woody: Global investment in green energy hit record in 2010 | Grist
  • Todd Woody: Global investment in green energy hit record in 2010 | Grist
  • The numbers are in and 2010 proved a record year for green energy, investment with venture capitalists, corporations, and governments worldwide pouring $243 billion into wind farms, solar power, electric cars, and other technologies, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. That’s a 30 percent spike from 2009 and nearly five times [...]... Read more »

  • Kelly Rigg: Climate Communications: Time to up the ante
  • Kelly Rigg: Climate Communications: Time to up the ante
  • Whatever you think about the Cancun Agreements, there’s no doubt that the climate movement needs to up its game in 2011. Pledges currently on the table will only take us about halfway to the kind of future any of us would want to bequeath to our children and grandchildren. Most importantly, we need to think [...]... Read more »

  • Greanpeace: 10 amazing facts you probably didn’t know about renewable energy
  • Greanpeace: 10 amazing facts you probably didn’t know about renewable energy
  • In all the spin from fossil fuels and nuclear industries, it is easy to start believing that renewable energy can’t get us out of the climate change hole. Think again – not only is an Energy [R]evolution happening, it’s already underway. 1) Europe DECOMMISSIONED more coal, fuel oil and nuclear capacity than it installed in [...]... Read more »

  • Robert Stavins: Why Cancun trumped Copenhagen
  • Robert Stavins: Why Cancun trumped Copenhagen
  • After the modest results of the climate change talks in Copenhagen a little more than a year ago, expectations were low for the follow up negotiations in Cancun last month. Gloom-and-doom predictions dominated. But a funny thing happened on the way to that much anticipated failure: During two intense weeks of discussions in the Mexican [...]... Read more »