Clean Energy & Green Living News
"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we tackle that." - Thomas Edison
Headlines
- 07/28/10 - The Time is Ripe For 'Food Forward' TV Show
- 07/21/10 - How Trains Replaced Solar-Powered Transport and Gave Rise to the Farm Belt
- 07/19/10 - After the Financial Reform Bill: Taking Reform into Our Own Hands
- 07/15/10 - Hands That Feed: Haiti's Food Crisis and Post-Quake Opportunities for Sustainability.
- 07/14/10 - Safe Canning: BPA in Canning Lids and Canned Food
- 07/13/10 - Energy Efficiency Helps Homeowners Avoid Foreclosure
- 07/13/10 - Exposing Hyperconsumerism: Annie Leonard's "The Story of Stuff"
- 07/10/10 - Getting Solar Panels Back on the White House
- 07/09/10 - Walmart Among Top Brands Blamed for Rainforest Harm
- 07/09/10 - Concerns Spread Over Environmental Costs of Producing Shale Gas
- 07/08/10 - Bamboo Houses to the Rescue
- 07/05/10 - BP Shows US It's Time for a New Energy Policy Like Europe's
- 07/04/10 - Your Guide to What Those Product Labels Really Mean
- 07/03/10 - Feed the Economy, or Starve it? The Answer's Clear
- 06/30/10 - Live Dangerously: Ten Easy Steps to Becoming a Radical Homemaker
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The GNA Platform:
Press the politicians to support:
- An immediate and ongoing crash program to green the U.S. economy,
implement major energy conservation measures, give green energy technologies to the major greenhouse gas producing nations, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2050. - International carbon, transfer and air travel taxes to finance the subsidy of hundreds of billions of dollars of green energy technologies to the major emitters of greenhouse gases overseas.
- A U.S. energy sustainability program that would withdraw $40 billion in annual subsidies from fossil fuels and establish equivalent subsidies for clean energy sources.
- Do you support a law requiring American cars to get at least 50 miles to the gallon by 2020 and a moratorium on all new coal and nuclear plants?
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Infobits
- In 1998, only 7.5 percent of our nation's energy came from renewable resources, even though the amount of renewable energy available was more than 250 times U.S. energy consumption.
- If your family could use only renewable energy, you could help reduce the amount of emissions in the air each year by 20,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, 70 pounds of sulfur dioxide and 50 pounds of nitrogen oxide.
- In 1990 in California alone, wind power offset the emission of more than 2.5 billion pounds of carbon dioxide and 15 million pounds of other pollutants - the same amount of air quality provided by more than 150 million trees.
Resources
- Saving Energy Guide
PowerhouseTV.com, provides simple and effective ways to cut your energy consumption. - Sustainable
Novato
Clean Energy Forum
A YouTube series of lectures from Paul Fenn explaining the advantages of his Community Choice Aggregation law in promoting clean and responsible use of energy.
Featured Website
1Sky -A National Campaign to promote drastic reductions in greenhouse gases and conversion to Clean Energy
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