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Los Angeles residential solar PV less costly than any concentrating solar power plant
This is part of a series on distributed renewable energy posted to Grist. It originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. A residential rooftop solar PV system in Los Angeles, Calif., has a cheaper cost per kilowatt-hour of electricity delivered than the most cost effective, utility-scale […]
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Review of The Rational Optimist — How Prosperity Evolves
Photo courtesy s.red via Flickr Crossposted from the Biodiversivist blog Just how rational are we? Had the optimists not prevailed would the Titanic have sailed? I’ve read most of Ridley’s books and have recently read my favorite, The Red Queen-Sex and the […]
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What a wind farm dispute in Michigan says about us
Earlier this month, on a snowy afternoon, the newly renovated Garden Theater held the largest crowd I’ve ever seen indoors in the small Lake Michigan coastal town of Frankfort, with the exception of girls and boys basketball games. On tap that day was a polemical documentary film, “Windfall.” Two groups of citizen activists held the […]
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The Climate Post: So really, how will we get to a post-carbon future?
Is the United States going about its energy policy "planlessly"? Did Obama's State of the Union address teach us anything new about his plans?
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Is it hot in here? Or is the climate changing?
What?s one way to convert climate change skeptics? By turning up the thermostat and making them sweat.
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Race to innovate the clean energy future heats up after the president’s address
President Barack Obama, in his annual State of the Union address called for new economic growth based on clean energy and innovation. The president proposed obtaining 80 percent of America’s electricity from clean energy sources by 2035. Other countries are seeing the benefits and reaping the rewards of making smart investments in the clean energy […]
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Silly Season 2.0
To those with more than a casual interest in politics, “Silly Season” is a common term used to indicate the time running up to an election when the logic of Capitol Hill, such as it is, gets crazier than usual. Votes are scheduled or canceled depending on how much they would help or hurt the […]
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EPA: A human life is worth $7.9 million
Putting a dollar value on people is how the EPA figures out whether reducing pollution is a good idea. And the EPA thinks you're worth $7.9 million.
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‘World on the Edge’: quick facts
We are facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency. Can we think systemically and fashion policies accordingly? Can we change direction before we go over the edge? Here are a few of the many facts from my latest book, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, to consider: There will […]
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Chevron, under pressure for destruction of Amazon, was top oil lobbyist last quarter
Chevron, responsible for a multi-billion-dollar environmental disaster in Ecuador, is instead spending millions to shore up Senate political support.