600px-Daniela-Freitas-2003-pipe-contest-RolloFacebook users who follow renewables are quite accustomed to seeing videos on ocean wave energy, like this one.  I have to admit; there is an intuitive appeal to the subject, as we can all visualize the vast power of the waves as they traverse the globe and ultimately pound on the shores, and we can all recall body-surfing, getting swamped, and being tossed around like a piece of flotsam.    (more…)

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reevess_muntjac_1Harking from Australia in the late 1970s, Permaculture is a creative design process based on a set of ethics and principles with the same ambition: to live sustainably and resiliently. (more…)

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basket-weave-treehouse-design-eco-homeIf one of your New Year’s resolutions is to become more environmentally conscious, then you will want to find new ways to have a green home this year. Here are five ways to create a property that will use less energy along with protecting the environment from pollution. (more…)

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solarribbonRegarding my earlier suggestion in which I lament the downturn in the solar industry, and that 9800 job were lost in solar in 2017, frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: Every boom time industry, especially those heavily reliant on consumer or taxpayer subsidies will eventually undergo a constriction. (more…)

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SolarGirlA variety of events, including the looming tariffs, conspired to eliminate 9,800 jobs in the solar industry between 2016 and 2017; this represents first drop ever recorded in the National Solar Jobs Census since it started collecting data in 2010.

It didn’t have to go this way.  (more…)

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7f0a3cc887aaba0f5f8a9210f3cbcd97a969861fe5498e1b8c51f361e6c7981cEPA administrator Scott Pruitt now says rising temperatures might be beneficial, and it would be “arrogant” to stop global warming.

Can someone please explain why anyone could possibly give a damn about this jackass’s viewpoints on climate change? Would you ask a pro baseball player or fashion model or a pastry chef? Then why would you ask a poli-sci major who works for the oil companies?

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0320_tillerson-putin_1024x5762GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie writes from his home in charming Buckinghamshire, England:

Hi Craig. (As discussed in this article), whilst still fairly small scale, there is a move by oil majors to diversify into renewables. (more…)

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300d_0163The need for clean energy came into existence when human beings realised the amount of damage that they have caused on the environment around the world. The fastest growing countries are the most environmentally damaged areas because of the increased number of population, and their desire to over-utilise all the available resources; degrading the quality of the environment, significantly. (more…)

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bastardHere’s an article headlined: Wildlife officials stunned and outraged (emphasis mine) after the Trump administration guts the Migratory Bird Act(more…)

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38210This video contains a good example of what makes today’s living in America so uniquely horrifying.  It’s Donald Trump, explaining on camera to Piers Morgan,  British journalist and television personality, that climate change is a hoax: how temperatures are actually getting colder and ice caps are getting bigger.

There are only a few possible explanations for this astounding presentation, all of them terrifying.  Either Trump: (more…)

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