I’d like to invite you to our September webinar, featuring my friend and colleague Andy Lower, Executive Director of The Eleos Foundation. Eleos is a dynamic non-profit, that, through its for-profit subsidiaries, invests in and partners with social entrepreneurs who …
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September's Webinar – Eco-Capitalism
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A Sustainable Energy Policy Looks at Externalities
I just sat down over lunch with a printed publication to which I subscribe called the “Green Money Journal.” Fantastic stuff. I loved the lead article, “From Growth Capitalism to Sustainable Capitalism,” by Joe Keefe, President and CEO of Pax …
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From Guest Blogger Mathias: Combining Green Roofs and Solar Panels for Improved Efficiency
Green roofs are engineered vegetated roofing systems where plants and soil have replaced, or been put on top of, traditional concrete, roof tiles or shingles. The breathing living roofs provide numerous benefits to buildings including protection against stormwater runoff, conservation …
From Guest-Blogger Mathias: Mexico Invests Big in Solar Power
Conermex, one of the largest solar and wind power companies in Mexico, predicts that Mexico will double their capacity of solar within 2012, from 6 to 12 MW. Mexico’s National Solar Energy Association (ANES) says that Mexico could possibly generate …
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From Guest Blogger Alia Haley: 7 Ways Homeowners Can Power Their Homes with Renewable Energy
You can see lots of attention is focused towards alternative and renewable energy systems. This is due to the soaring energy costs and the need to decrease the climate change effects over earth. Though these solutions may seem complicated for …
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Pros and Cons of Solar Energy from Photovoltaics
Here’s another short video for young people and newcomers to the subject of renewable energy. In this brief talk on solar energy and photovoltaics (solar panels), I provide my thinking on the strengths and weaknesses of solar power. Hope you …
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From Guest-Blogger Joshua Okomo: Green Energy and Human Rights
Global nuclear capacity has remained flat in growth in the last decade, the worldwide operational installed capacity increased insignificantly from 370 GWe at the end of 2005 to 375 GWe at the end of 2010. Nuclear capacity in the OECD …
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Electric Vehicles and CO2 Emission Abatement
Frequent commenter Glenn Doty writes: What would really be nice is an infographic comparing the cost of mitigating CO2 with various alternatives… just to put the different alternatives into proper perspective. For instance, how much more does it cost to …
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2GreenEnergy’s Financial Wizard Bill Paul on Shale Gas
2GreenEnergy financial guru Bill Paul has a natural gift for looking at the macro issues affecting renewables. Here’s a high-level summary of his thinking on clean energy vis-à-vis shale gas, in which he summarizes: There’s a distinct possibility that Wall …
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A Collaboration on Fuel Cell Vehicles — But Exactly Whose Interests Are At Stake? Not Yours.
Here’s an article that describes a collaboration between GM and BMW on fuel cell vehicles. Wow, that’s remarkable. Just when I had started to trust the car companies based on the sincerity of Nissan/Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn and his people who …
