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Google Drops Powermeter; Future Not Bright For Android@Home
Posted on 08. Jun, 2011 by Ross.
Two years after announcing the launch of Powermeter - touted as the Google Analytics of home energy use - Google have quietly and surprisingly dumped development of the Powermeter API.
At a time when Google is making some big investments in renewable energy (most recently in windfarms), home automation and innovative methods to green their data [...]
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My Return On Investment Case with Philips LED Lighting
Posted on 19. May, 2011 by Ross.
The New York Times announced the arrival of a new LED light bulb from Philips this week, capable of deliver enough light to replace a 75W light bulb (until now LED lights had only been able to emit enough light to replace a 60W bulb). The EnduraLED A21 is expected to cost $40, last 25,000 [...]
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California Shows The World (Some Of) America Is Serious About Climate Change
Posted on 17. Dec, 2010 by Ross.
The plans for a US-wide cap-and-trade scheme for carbon emissions might be dead in the water, but California is charging ahead regardless with its plans to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.
Although still playing catch-up with Europe, with the long-established ETS and 2020 emission targets of 20-30% reductions from 1990, Californians aims to return to 1990 levels [...]
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International Climate Negotiations Are Dead (Thanks America), But That’s Not Stopping China
Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by Ross.
Whatever lingering hopes the most blindly optimistic of climate negotiators had of finding further progress in the wake of the Copenhagen disaster was extinguished by the announcement that the US Senate was to abandon its attempts to pass some form of carbon emissions regulation. However, other countries including China are continuing with their decarbonisation strategies [...]
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Photovoltaic Energy: Ecologists vs Environmentalists
Posted on 11. Jun, 2010 by Ross.
The road to fighting climate change is an increasingly torturous one, with traditional allies standing on different sides of the battle lines. Just about every option of how reduce the global carbon footprint has caused another division, whether it’s been nuclear power, wind turbines, population control, vegetarianism, energy efficiency, carbon offsetting, biofuels, carbon capture and [...]
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Holistic Management: Natural Grazing Patterns Prevent Desertification But Increase Climate Change
Posted on 08. Jun, 2010 by Ross.
Livestock, which are commonly perceived to be a main cause of desertification, are actually the solution to helping maintain vegetation in the face of climate change.
Whilst most of the world focuses on preventing climate change through renewable energy and greater use of energy efficient technology, some of the most innovative research is starting to emerge [...]
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Wind Power Wars: What Hope Now For Technology Transfers
Posted on 28. May, 2010 by Ross.
Hopes of top corporations sharing patent information with developing countries in climate change technology transfers seem more remote this week after a war has broken out in the US wind power market between two of the world’s biggest engineering brands.
Two years ago General Electric (GE) filed two patent infringement claims against Mitsubishi in the US, [...]
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How To Start A Green Business Driven By Federal Stimulus Money
Posted on 12. May, 2010 by Ross.
Remember the stimulus package which was supposed to bring millions of green-collar jobs to the USA? The hundreds of billions of dollars which were going to revitalise energy efficiency and renewable energy across America?
Guess what: it’s not getting spent.
Only 10% of the $20 billion of US stimulus dollars earmarked for energy efficiency projects has been [...]
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Immigrants Hold Climate Change Hostage In US Senate
Posted on 26. Apr, 2010 by Ross.
Just when the road seemed clear for America to finally hop on board the global clean energy agenda, domestic xenophobic politics has created a new crisis for climate change’s lethargic legislationary laggards.
10 months after the US Congress passed the Clean Energy and Security Act, the tri-partisan Senate coalition of Democrat John Kerry, Republican Lindsey Graham [...]
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Let Battle Commence: Green ‘Buy America’ Will Kick-Start Carbon Trade Wars
Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Ross.
After the collapse of the Copenhagen conference, there was one prediction which Energy-Saving News felt was easy to make: that a new era of green carbon tariffs in developed countries on dirty imports from developing nations was at hand. After recent comments from UK politicians suggesting a direction towards such steps, the battle in the [...]
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After Copenhagen, The Carbon Tariff Trade Wars Begin
Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by Ross.
In the aftermath of the global economic collapse, the industrialised world looked back at the lessons of the 1930s and realised that the fastest way out of recession was to avoid protectionist trade wars and to keep international markets as open as possible, in order to try to keep trade flowing as freely as possible [...]
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