Contributions to this blogpost were made by SACE’s Lauren Steier and Joanna Malcom of FLS Energy.
A huge solar hot water system was recently installed on Knox County’s Detention Center just outside of Knoxville, TN. This solar thermal system consists of 300 flat plate collectors and will provide hot water to more than 1,000 inmates, which [...]
Guest Blog by Debbie Attias
Last weekend, a group of cyclists and local activists got together for a picnic at Biscayne National Park. This wasn’t just any picnic, though…. From this park, you can see Turkey Point, Florida Power & Light’s nuclear power plant. Our picnic in sight of this plant was part of a nationwide [...]
Today marks the one month anniversary of what will undoubtedly be known as the nation’s worst environmental disaster: the sinking and uncontrollable leak of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil well.
Remarkably, no one can yet offer a firm estimate for how much oil is gushing out of the broken well - the still ‘official’ estimate of [...]
These are permanent jobs, tied to the local base of renewable biomass resources; they can’t be outsourced or off-shored.
The dust has settled after a last minute ban on mountain wind energy in North Carolina was inserted into an otherwise responsibly written state-wide wind permitting bill by the North Carolina Senate. We believe now is the time to have a constructive and thoughtful dialogue about these issues to ensure that we protect local [...]
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