The transition from the warmer summer months to the cooler fall months is a great time to start thinking about your home’s energy efficiency. If you are ready to save some extra money and cut down on your family’s carbon …
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Climate Change: Strong Forces Pulling in Both Directions
2GreenEnergy supporter Gary Tulie writes: Here is an article on the effects of climate change at various levels of temperature rise. It makes disturbing reading. Some of the research indicates that positive feedback will kick in above 2 centigrade of …
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Shell Oil Says Adios to the American Legislative Exchange Council
Three pieces of good news: • Shell Oil is distancing itself from the conservative front group American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) whose purpose, among other horrors, is to spread disinformation on climate change. A Shell spokesperson said, “ALEC’s stance on …
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Helping Hand for Hydrokinetics
Those keeping track of the development of hydrokinetics (including tidal, ocean current, wave energy, etc.) will be interested to know that the U.S. Department of Energy is shelling out $7.4 million to encourage R&D in this space. As long as …
Celebrating the Things that All Humankind Share
It’s the birthday of anthropologist Louis Leakey. From the Writer’s Almanac: In 1948, Leakey and his wife found one of the earliest fossil ape skulls ever discovered; it was between 25 and 40 million years old. It is now believed …
From Guest Blogger "Sustainafreak": The Most Innovative New Advances in Green Technologies
In 2015 the human race is at the peak of technological advancement, with some form of clever device or product making its way into pretty much all aspects of our day-to-day lives. On the most part these are to provide us …
From a Kind-Hearted Reader in Zambia
Here’s a little exchange with a gentleman by the name of Ken from Zambia, who’s been following my work on clean energy investment opportunities. Out of modesty, I normally wouldn’t publish something like this, but I couldn’t resist in this …
From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: How to Optimize Your HVAC System for Maximum Home Energy Efficiency
Now that the warmer months are here, it’s not enough to have an air conditioning unit. Air conditioners need special maintenance to ensure they’re running at optimal levels and to ensure that cooling costs stay at a minimal amount. The …
Who's Your Landscape Architect?
Here’s a story that’s made national news in the last few days and for good reason: it’s about a battle that pits people who want the land in front of their houses to be ecosystems for the species that would …
We're Clean Energy Argonauts–And I Didn't Even Know It
Can you define the word “argonaut?” I couldn’t, until this morning when the good people at dictionary.com made it their “word of the day”: a person in quest of something dangerous but rewarding. One could say that 2greenenergy readers are …
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