Energy Awareness Month: Save Energy With Simple Tips for the Home
As the third in a series of blogs during Energy Awareness Month, this post explores simple energy savings tips for your home. Since 1991, the federal government has recognized October as Energy…
First Impressions of the LEAF
I wanted to share my first impression after driving the Nissan LEAF for the past couple of weeks. While it may be quixotic to think we can ever truly drive “guilt free,” the…
Ode to a LEAF
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy is very happy to have received our long-awaited 2011 Nissan LEAF. SACE is part of the The EV Project in Tennessee. Staff at our Knoxville, Tennessee…
Green Job Training in the Southeast
Recently, it seems that every politician has the exact same top three priorities: Jobs, Jobs and Jobs. Some of those jobs can come in the form of green jobs. Green jobs vary…
Knoxville Unveils First Public Electric Vehicle Charging Station
This week the city of Knoxville unveiled its first public charging station for electric vehicles (EVs). The EV project, a joint venture between the U.S. Department of Transportation and ECOtality North America…
Washington and the Media Fiddle While the World Burns
This week I spent time in the Florida Keys SCUBA diving the coral reefs. As I glided over Sombrero Reef near Marathon, marveling at the biologically rich rainbow of tropical sea life, a…
Steady Breeze Brings Jobs to North Carolina
This blog was co-authored by former SACE staff Katie Stokes & Glenn Mauney. There's wind in the North Carolina desert! OK, it's not really a desert. An area in Perquimans and Pasquotank…
New Deepwater Drilling Permit Provides Platform for Perpetuating Myths
On February 28th, the Obama Administration issued its first deepwater drilling permit since the Gulf of Mexico disaster in April of last year. Noble Energy Inc. has been granted permission to continue…
Two 1-megawatt solar projects are largest yet in TVA region
1 MW solar farm in Georgia installed by ESA Renewables Renewable energy continues its expansion in the Southeast with the recent unveiling of two 1-megawatt solar farms in Tennessee and Georgia. Each…
Attacks on the EPA endanger public health and our economy
The basis for this post was an oped I authored, which ran today - Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - in the Tennessean. The original is published here alongside US Rep. Marsha Blackburn's…