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Ever since the economy, and public sector investment, hit the buffers in late 2008, our call for government to invest heavily in new clean energy industries has become more important. What’s needed is a Green New Deal – a strong green stimulus combined with an active industrial strategy – to create thousands of skilled jobs, secure energy supplies and secure Britain’s place in the global clean energy race. [...] The Government’s Clean Energy Cash Back – or feed-in tariff – scheme starts today – allowing home-owners, businesses and communities to profit from generating their own green energy. [...] WASHINGTON, D.C.–At the inaugural summit of ARPA–E, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy , no less an august personage than Norman Augustine declared that we were possibly witnessing an inflection point–a turn from old thinking to new. As an aerospace business pioneer, Augustine certainly knows when trajectories change and escape velocities are attained. Indeed, a host of speakers regarded ARPA–E’s effort as an Apollo project, a Manhattan project, and Mike Splinter, CEO of Applied Materials, even called for ARPA–E to be part of a potential Marshall Plan for energy–a road map to a future of clean power, complete with the Hoover Dam of solar, or the like. [More] Another very positive element is the president’s plans to eliminate some $40 billion in taxpayer-funded giveaways to Big Oil. At a time of rising gas prices–and rising oil company profits–there’s simply no excuse for continuing these wasteful and unnecessary giveaways. Eliminating these and other fossil fuel subsidies, as the U.S. and other G20 nations pledged to d [...] Washington, D.C.–The President’s Fiscal Year 2011 Budget released was released today. It continues the many important investments made last year and includes more than $6 billion for clean energy alone. The Sierra Club offered the following comments in response. Statement of Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director “We are pleased that this year’s budget once again includes a clear commitment from the administration to pass comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation. Returning the revenue from a climate bill to consumers and using it to make investments in clean energy is the right course of action, and that’s what the President’s Budget envisions. [...] CODA Automotive, a manufacturer and distributor of all-electric cars and transportation battery systems, will debut its prototype all-electric CODA sedan to the public at the AltCar Expo, October 2-3, in Santa Monica. Hosted in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, the conference is open and free of charge to the public, and will showcase the latest and most innovative clean energy and alternative transportation technology. [...] In 1998, Samsø was awarded the title “Denmark’s Renewable Energy Island” and since then, the population on the green island situated between Zealand and Jutland has become self-sufficient in renewable power and even exports surplus electricity from wind turbines. Furthermore, the islanders have succeeded in reducing their emission of CO2 considerably, at a time when the emission of greenhouse gases in general is on the rise in Denmark. A good 10 years ago, Samsø received the honour of becoming Denmark’s first subsidised CO2 neutral island which is something the local population has accepted enthusiastically; despite the subsidy given by the government, most long-term investments in green technology originates from the islanders themselves. This is e.g. the case with the island’s many wind turbines which not only cover the islands own electricity requirements, but produces enough electricity to export clean energy to other parts of the country. [...] Despite near instantaneous condemnation of his role in the culmination of the COP15 climate negotiations last week, president Obama voiced his frustration over the course those negotiations took and accord that resulted from them. Speaking with Jim Lehrer on Wednesday, president Obama said that “people are justified in being disappointed about the outcome in Copenhagen.” Lehrer asked about comments Obama made that Copenhagen “was a success anyhow,” despite the tepid nature of the accord. President Obama responded: What—what did occ [...] Small-scale renewable electricity schemes could generate more than twice the output of Sizewell B nuclear power station by 2020 if Ministers improve the proposed Clean Energy Cash-back scheme due to be launched in April 2010, Friends of the Earth says. [...] Climate Change Poses Grave Threat to U.S. National Parks [...] |
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