Brights Ideas at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
This blog was written by Simon Mahan, former Energy Policy Manager at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
Green Spirit Awards: Two leading sources of dehydration team up to save water! (HINT: One's beer.)
This is the fifth post in our Green Spirit Awards monthly blog series, highlighting breweries, wineries and distilleries in the Southeast using clean energy to create tasty, sustainable beverages. You can read…
Bioenergy and Biodiversity in the Southeast: Like Speeding in a Crowded Neighborhood?
The following guest post by our friend Ben Larson was originally posted by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) on 12/5/13. The blog profiles a recent report highlighting potential impacts from one of…
Exploring biocarbon: The road less traveled in climate policy
This blog is the first in a series on biocarbon tools and strategies for climate mitigation. How are we going to repair the changed climate? Seriously, how are we going to un-do…
Touring Sustainable Bioenergy in Virginia
Last month, I had the good fortune to travel to Farmville, VA for a conference on sustainable biomass. Hosted by the Center for Natural Capital, the event at Longwood University featured an…
Busy Season for Bioenergy
You may not have noticed, but interesting things have been happening in Washington with regards to bioenergy. In fact, it’s been quite a busy few months of new project and policy developments.…
Rollcast Energy on a Roll
Today, I toured the Piedmont Green Power project, along with other members of the Pine 2 Energy Coalition, that is currently under construction in Barnesville, Georgia, about an hour SW of Atlanta. The…
Well, Is Bioenergy Carbon Neutral Or Not?
I admit it. I've been impatient. For about two years now I've been carping to anyone who will listen that we don't have sufficient scientific studies here in the Southeast to truly…
NC Court Ruling on Biomass is Bad Policy
Last week the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued a decision affirming the N.C. Utilities Commission ruling that Duke Energy (and others) can get renewable energy credit by using any forest biomass…
Florida RPS: Glass half-full or half-empty?
Debates about our clean energy future always come around to the glass half-full or half-empty idiom. When we contemplate changing markets, expansion of renewable technologies, and other uncertainties, some folks just have…