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Despite all the naysayers’ affirmations that switching to clean energy will damage the economy, reality is the complete opposite. The clean energy economy is already booming despite the hard economic times.
From Change.org

The Clean Energy Economy Is Already Booming
Without much attention from policymakers, or funding from the public trough, a low-carbon economy has already taken off [...]

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An excellent article by Dan Gardnerколи под наем.
The jist of his message? Even if you don’t “believe” in anthropogenic climate change, there are many good reasons to get off our addiction to fossil fuels, and do it fast.
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The things that Bush can say and do while maintaing a straight face are just amazing. His pandering to his oil industry buddies knows no bounds.
He is perfectly OK with authorizing drilling for oil off the pristine coast of Alaska, but he has just put a freeze on solar farms in the desert because he [...]

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Last month Scientific American published an interesting article on a grand plan to replace most of America’s energy sources through the use of large scale solar energy.  After reading it, I would say that it is quite realistic and feasible.
The biggest obstacle is the cost: 420 billion dollars over 40 years.  But then again [...]

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Here’s a very interesting talk by Amory B. Lovins on weening ourselves off of oil while saving and creating jobs and fostering economic growth. He lists a bunch of simple ideas and shows their effect on oil consumption. This talk is based on his freely downloadable book which details all of his calculations so you [...]

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I’ve long been speaking out against the tragedy that is the push for biofuels. Today George Monbiot comes out strongly against this new fad in “green” energy.
I have already seen the effects of these food crops being used for fuels, and the increase in food prices in places like Panama.
Read Monbiot’s editorial here.
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No matter what you think, oil is not an infinite resource and sooner or later it will run out. Peak oil refers to a point at which the world’s oil production peaks, at which point supply declines and since consumption is still increasing rapidly, you end up with rapidly increasing prices, and the potential for [...]

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Here’s a good article at Green Options on the “Cape Wind” fiasco. Basically the right wing fights the project because, well, its bad for the fossil fuel industry, and the Kennedy’s, who like to pass themselves as pro-environment and pro-renewable energy, are fighting it because it will spoil their view.
This is a rather hypocritical stance, [...]

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Looks like Canada’s provincial Premiers are a lot smarter than the Prime Minister! Stephen Harper is a Bush puppet and has adopted energy and environmental policies that are carbon copies of the USA’s, meaning they are disastrous, irresponsible and misleading. Good thing the Provinces are not following his lead. Now I’d like to see California-style incentives for renewable [...]

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Here’s an excellent article from Rolling Stone Magazine on the ethanol boondoggle. This is nothing new, there are piles of information out there showing that ethanol from corn is a very bad idea. But ethanol makes Americans feel like they are doing something good without changing their comsumption habits, and nothing will stop farmers and energy companies for participating [...]

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