Growth in the Spanish solar market exceeds expectations

Feed-in tariffs in Spain, initiated in 2004 to reach the European Union’s goal of increasing renewable energy use to 20 percent by 2020, guarantee energy produced by from renewable resources will be bought by local utilities at three times the normal market value for 25 years. The Spanish utilities have the obligation of giving renewable […]

Moved by mountains

Through the Spruce, originally uploaded by treknpaddle.
This is truly an alien landscape to me. Here I stand on a deer run above the road, looking through the spruce boughs at a mountain on the horizon. In this landscape, the horizon i never far away. I suspect that at the top, the horizon could […]

A Big Oops!

     What would you do if you found the world’s oldest animal?  A group of researchers killed the amazing sea creature.  That’s right, a team from the United Kingdom dredged up a 405 year old quahog clam and the poor thing died.
     They determined its age by counting its growth rings, which will give them important […]

Albay governor orders investigation of fish kill

Environmentalists, clergy continue to oppose Lafayette mines
By Manny T. Ugalde and Rhaydz B. Barcia, Correspondents-Manila Times
LEGAZPI CITY: Albay Governor Jose Sarte Salceda on Tuesday called for a thoroughinvestigation into the fishkill that hit five coastal villages of Rapu-rapu allegedly triggered by mine tailings that overflowed from a mining operation in the said island town.
Salceda said […]

Press Clipping(s): Nations, States, Provinces Announce Carbon Markets Partnership Targeting Global Warming

Nations, States, Provinces Announce Carbon Markets Partnership Targeting Global Warming
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A coalition of European countries, US states, Canadian provinces, New Zealand and Norway have formed the International Carbon Action Partnership to fight global warming.
ICAP will provide an international forum in which governments and public authorities adopting mandatory greenhouse gas emissions cap and trade systems […]

$10,000 rebate for the 2-Year Plan?

I am not sure if there will really be a “rebate” but the notion of building a company around the same type of love affair people all over the world have with their phones is very clever indeed. Americans have had this affair with their cars for decades but the mobile phone is the object […]

NYC goes green

Trough Eco-Chick I get this video which reflects green-eco-architecture buildings in the big apple. Check it out:
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Ummm…………yeah………..Okay.

Sometimes I wonder if this  generation is supposed to be the whipping boy for all of the injustices of the past, the generation which issues reparation for all people who have been victimized in the past , and the generation which is also supposed to pay a huge price to ensure that future generations will have a liveable […]

Did you feel the pre-Halloween quake?

I felt it in Fairfax. How about you? Add your experience to the comments below.
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Biofuels and Conservation; America Unplugged

Please see the article (click on the title):

>Renewed Effort
Big oil companies are joining the search for the next generation of biofuels
By JESSICA RESNICK-AULT of the Wall Street Journal

Ms. Resnick-Alt provides a discussion of the range of biofuel options as viewed by major oil companies and she reports on their choices, which vary widely. The […]