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How Green is Obama?

Obama has promised to spend more and do more on energy policy than any American president. In his inaugural address, he declared that we must "roll back the specter of a warming planet" and acknowledged that "the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet." Obama must navigate complex domestic and international political waters to achieve the sweeping change he promised. This sPression will follow policy and politics in the U.S. and the world leading up to the U.N. Climate Summit in Copenhagen to see if he delivers.

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sPressed on Thursday, August 27, 2009
by Jack Mason
Source: TheEnergyCollective

Sunil Paul of Spring Ventures throws down for a gigaton of renewables.


A new report is claiming that, with an aggressive infrastructure investment, eight emerging technologies could meet 60 % of new energy demand by 2020.  It is also claiming that we could abate more C...
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Stimulating carbon capture technology - will it be worth the cost?
Thanks to Government, Carbon Capture Projects Taking OffTouted as an alternative to alternative energies, carbon capture and sequestration for coal-fired utilities is gaining steam, thanks in part to support from federal and state funding.
In California, a proposed $1 billion carbon capture project is being studied by the state’s energy commission. The plant, which would be built by Rio Tinto PLC and BP [...]
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sPressed on Thursday, August 27, 2009
Source: TreeHugger
Something to chew on.
Heracles in the Olymp taking fruit from the Cornucopia.
Image credit: MLHanas.de

In April 2005, the World Food Programme and the Chinese government jointly announced that food aid shipments to China would stop at the end of the year. For a country where a generation ago hundreds of millions of people were chronically hungry, this was a landmark achievement. Not only has China ended its dependence on food aid, but almost overnight it has become the world’s third largest food aid donor.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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sPressed on Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Source: WSJ.com: Environmental Capital - WSJ.com
Astroturf is NOT green.
More fraudulent letters against climate-change legislation keep surfacing. A congressional inquiry is underway.
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A solar PV farm in Nevada that uses First Solar panels. Photo: First Solar

More Clean Energy During Peak Demand
First Solar is one of the leaders in thin film solar power, and it just sealed a deal with California's SoCal Edison for two solar power projects totalling 550 megawatts of capacity: "The projects in the California counties of Riverside and San Bernardino would provide enough power to supply 170,000 homes when completed in 2015, the companies said."... Read the full story on TreeHugger



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