Jun 12 – China's wind power generation has doubled in the last year as the country looks for greener ways to wean itself off cheap, but dirty, coal.
via Wind power makes strides in China | Video | Reuters.com.
News: Archive for June, 2009
Wind power makes strides in China | Video | Reuters.com
Saturday, June 13th, 2009Environmentalists: UN Talks Too Slow, “We’re Losing Time”
Saturday, June 13th, 2009BONN, Germany — U.N. climate delegates completed their first rough sketch of a new global warming agreement Friday, a draft replete with gaps and competing ideas that await decisions by political leaders.
via Environmentalists: UN Talks Too Slow, “We’re Losing Time”.
Katherine Goldstein: Food, Inc.: HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In (Video)
Saturday, June 13th, 2009Food, Inc. is a movie everybody's talking about, which opens today in New York, LA and San Fransisco. The film explores the dark underbelly of the what actually goes into that piece of chicken, soda, hamburger or chips that we often don't think twice about popping into our mouths.
via Katherine Goldstein: Food, Inc.: HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In (Video).
Coal Ash Spills Too Dangerous To Reveal To Public, Says DHS VIDEO
Friday, June 12th, 2009‘Just how bad has the coal ash situation gotten in the United States? So bad that the Department of Homeland Security has told Sen. Barbara Boxer D-Calif. that her committee can’t publicly disclose the location of coal ash dumps across the country.’
via Coal Ash Spills Too Dangerous To Reveal To Public, Says DHS VIDEO.
China Wants Top US Technology In Climate Bargain
Thursday, June 11th, 2009‘BONN, Germany — China wants the United States to deliver top of the line technology as part of a new global warming agreement, the chief U.S. climate negotiator said Thursday.’
Will Big Ag plow under Waxman-Markey? | Grist
Thursday, June 11th, 2009‘As the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill moves forward in the House, Big Ag interest groups are circling their plows and sharpening their pitchforks. Some of the largest corporations in the agribusiness sector—including the GMO-and-herbicide giant Monsanto—are pushing to control how agriculture would fit into the bill’s cap-and-trade scheme.’
House GOP offers nuclear-loaded energy bill : AP
Thursday, June 11th, 2009‘WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are calling for a hundred new nuclear power plants to be built in the next two decades as part of an energy plan they say is a better alternative than one championed by Democrats.’
via The Associated Press: House GOP offers nuclear-loaded energy bill.
What Is the Cheapest Energy Storage Idea of Them All? : Greentech Media
Thursday, June 11th, 2009Researchers and startups might tout flow or sodium batteries, but caves are going to be tough to beat when it comes to energy storage, says Robert Schainker, a senior technical executive at EPRI.
via Greentech Media: What Is the Cheapest Energy Storage Idea of Them All?.
China launches green power revolution to catch up on west | The Guardian
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009‘China is planning a vast increase in its use of wind and solar power over the next decade and believes it can match Europe by 2020, producing a fifth of its energy needs from renewable sources, a senior Chinese official said yesterday.’
via China launches green power revolution to catch up on west | Environment | The Guardian.