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Veterans push for clean energy, safer nation
10/20/2009
Several military veterans — part of Operation Free Veterans for American Power — brought their 21 state bus tour Monday to the American Legion Post 44 in Canton. The group supports cheap, domestic and renewable energy and contends drastic changes in our weather climate increase potential for military conflicts.
Sacramento’s clean tech economy makes national ranks
10/16/2009
More than 700 people attended today’s 2009 Clean Tech Showcase “Stimulating the Sacramento Region’s Clean Tech Economy” at Sacramento State University. The latest innovations from 120 Clean Technology companies specializing in solar, wind, biofuel, and energy-efficient technologies were on display. The event brought together the region’s most influential leaders in renewable energy and environmental technology and featured keynote speaker, Dan Sperling, author of Two Billion Cars.
Smarter grid, smaller bills
10/15/2009
Smart meters can send information on electricity consumption to the electric utility department every 15 minutes. And because they are monitored remotely, there’s no need to send out a meter reader.
But the city wants to go from just reading meters from a control room to turning down thermostats and giving customers the ability to identify energy-hog appliances.
Opeds & Editorials
New Priorities For Our Energy Future
08/17/2009
Renewable energy and clean-burning natural gas are the basis of a new strategy the world needs to create a cleaner and more secure future. And the global transformation to a clean-energy economy may be the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century. According to the authoritative Potential Gas Committee (administered by the Colorado School of Mines), the U.S. sits on top of massive reservoirs of natural gas—an estimated 2,000 trillion cubic feet—that contain more energy than all the oil in Saudi Arabia.
Local agriculture should drive the transition to a clean-energy economy
08/11/2009
Science tells us that unmitigated climate change will cause shifts in growing seasons, crop yield reductions, increasingly stressed and unreliable water supplies and decreased livestock growth rates, reproduction and milk productivity. Failing to act on climate change will have a drastic impact on our agriculture industry, the families that depend on farming and consumers’ access to affordable food. This issue cannot be ignored.
Wind energy is still cleanest resource out there
08/10/2009
Wisconsin has a vast, largely untapped resource and disagreements about how to tap that resource. A bill making its way to the state Senate could help resolve some of those disputes.
The resource is wind, which rushes across the Niagara Escarpment with a fury that produces a viable source of electricity. Hundreds of wind turbines are being constructed along the escarpment, and several alarmed communities have been throwing up roadblocks to slow or halt their development.
Global Warming News
Veterans push for clean energy, safer nation
10/20/2009
Several military veterans — part of Operation Free Veterans for American Power — brought their 21 state bus tour Monday to the American Legion Post 44 in Canton. The group supports cheap, domestic and renewable energy and contends drastic changes in our weather climate increase potential for military conflicts.
Energy chief visits Jefferson Lab: Clean energy is key to ‘prosperity’
10/01/2009
From creating jobs to making Earth safe for future generations, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu made his case Tuesday to overhaul the nation’s energy system.
In Newport News to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Jefferson Lab, Chu said the United States risks falling behind other nations, specifically China, by not responding quickly to climate change.
Boxer, Kerry Launch Campaign to Pass Senate Cap-And-Trade Bill
09/30/2009
Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), John Kerry (D-Mass.) and nine Senate supporters kicked off the autumn global warming debate today with a campaign-style rally releasing their comprehensive climate bill.
Press Releases
League of Conservation Voters wants you at Nevada Energy Summit
08/07/2009
Friends,
Last year, Americans voted overwhelmingly for change, including an energy policy for the 21st Century.
Members of Congress are working to jumpstart our economy and create new, green jobs in Nevada by passing a historic Clean Energy Plan. Unfortunately, big oil and gas companies are using scare tactics to stall this work and are organizing a protest Monday against any sensible reform to our nation’s outdated energy policy.
PLEASE JOIN US—Monday, August 10, at 8:30 a.m. on the steps of the Cox Pavilion of the UNLV campus—to let our elected officials know we need green jobs and a Clean Energy Plan now! It’s important that we show our support for a Clean Energy Plan.
Join other Nevadans to send a public “thank you” to Sen. Harry Reid for the work he is doing to support a Clean Energy Plan in Congress and call on other senators to vote in favor of jobs that can’t be exported overseas. Sen. Reid recognizes that we must harness Nevada’s vast solar, wind and geothermal energy potential to stabilize our energy costs and create much-needed jobs!
Free parking is available in the Cox Pavilion parking lot on the UNLV campus at Swenson and Tropicana. For more information, please go to http://www.rebuildnevada.org. To rsvp, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
New CBO Deficit Projections Signal U.S. Economy in Even Worse Shape Than Previously Thought
03/20/2009
Americans United for Change, which is helping lead a major national campaign to pass President Obama’s historic budget plan along with nearly 100 leading labor, environmental and progressive organizations, issued the following statement today in response to alarming new figures from the Congressional Budget Office that project a substantially higher federal deficit than previously estimated.
Tom McMahon, Acting Executive Director, Americans United for Change: "The sobering new deficit projections deliver a stark message that the economy is in even worse shape than was previously thought. It also underscores the urgent need to pass the bold initiatives on healthcare, education, energy and the economy laid out the President’s budget."
Leaders from Green For All and Apollo Alliance to Speak at “Green Today, Jobs Tomorrow”
01/26/2009
Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth Director Stanley “Skip” Pruss announced today that the author of The Green Collar Economy as well as a co-director of Apollo Alliance, of Washington, D.C., have accepted invitations to speak at the “Green Today, Jobs Tomorrow” conference scheduled for May 11th at the Lansing Center.
Newsletters
Adhering to clean energy standards
12/05/2008
Our civilization is hopelessly chained to the corporate elite, corrupt leadership of unstable states and a bureaucracy that has been unable to bring about change. While we might pretend to think that we are in charge of the economy, power still remains largely in the hands of an elite few. The executives that lead the world’s major oil companies are constant reminders of this fact.
President-elect Barack Obama’s recent cruise to the White House seems to have put wind back in sails of the renewable energy sector. Obama has promised to invest some $150 billion over 10 years in renewable resources as part of a wider plan to increase U.S. energy security amid fear of oil shortages, while also decreasing the country’s carbon emissions in an attempt to confront the problem of global warming.
U.S. must move toward clean energy
11/18/2008
It’s clear to see that the world needs to end its dependence on foreign fuels. The Repower America Campaign can work with the government on using 100 percent clean energy by a set date. I think it would be extremely beneficial to the readers of your newspaper to learn an outline for the future, and to bond together and strive for a cleaner future for their children, and my generation.
Heinz Talks discuss climate change and energy policies
10/27/2008
As the United States presidential election approaches, Americans are reminded of two important issues that the next president of the United States will face: the energy situation and global climate change.
To address this issue, “Heinz Talks: Climate Change and Energy Policy — Advice to Our Next President” was held Monday, Oct. 20, at Carnegie Mellon’s Mellon Institute.