This guest post was written by Andrée Duggan of Interfaith Power & Light. A new program, Cool Harvest, run by Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) hopes to build on successful faith & food programs to address climate change. Working in 38 states with around 10,000 congregations, IPL is attempting to rally the nation’s faithful to [...]
It was a mixed week for energy policy on Capitol Hill as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially proposed new standards to reduce mercury/air toxics levels even as Congress took steps to block EPA’s ability to reduce climate pollution. The new mercury and air toxics standards would be a leap forward in terms of public [...]
Well, you stop wasting energy! Five months ago, a new tactic in the fight to keep wasting electricity emerged. Simply deny that saving energy saves energy. It completely boggles my mind that anyone would think that the way to build support for clean, cheap energy resource innovation is to insist first that it is a [...]
This blogpost was guest written by Coky Michel, Mary-Joe Castells, Chris Castro and Andrea Cuccaro, 1SkyFlorida’s Organizer (a program of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy) Every year on the Sunday following Christmas Day, South Floridians gather in the heart of Coconut Grove to celebrate the parade known as the King Mango Strut. The strut [...]
Read this blog in ENGLISH. La Alianza Sureña Para Energía Limpia (Southern Alliance for Clean Energy – SACE) está publicando en español sus nuevas hojas informativas sobre el calentamiento global, especificas a cada estado del Sureste. A través de estas traducciones, SACE continúa su esfuerzo de educar a la comunidad Latina sobre los actuales y [...]
VEA NUESTROS BLOG EN ESPANOL Southern Alliance for Clean Energy is now releasing Spanish versions of our newly created, state specific, global warming fact sheets. Through these translated materials, SACE is continuing its effort to educate the Latino community on the current and future impacts of global warming in the Southeast and the United States [...]
Visiting with relatives over the holidays, I was asked, “is biomass electricity a smart thing to do?”
One year ago this week, in late November 2009, more than 1,000 stolen e-mails from scientists at England’s University of East Anglia were made public. Climate skeptics, eager to find evidence of a conspiracy, had a field day claiming these emails showed scientific misconduct and argued these emails should cast doubt on decades of findings. [...]
Why would a company that builds power plants host a reception at an event that is likely to help reduce the use of electricity? Well, the 2010 conference of the International Code Council is underway in Charlotte, NC. And building energy efficiency is the topic of the day! After the first two of five days of [...]
This blog is a repost from Facing South: The Online Magazine for the Institute for Southern Studies. Find the original blog post by Sue Sturgis here. There’s broad agreement among scientists nowadays that global warming is real and caused in large part by human activities like burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests. For example, [...]
