Bold Nebraska and Partners to Construct Renewable Energy Barn Inside Keystone XL Pipeline Route – Mother Earth News
The folks fighting the Keystone Pipeline in Nebraska have come up with a very clever strategy to illustrate (and educate about) their “Choose renewable, Not oil” position. Check it out:…
Debunking the Renewables “Disinformation Campaign” – Mother Earth News
Reposted with permission from the Rocky Mountain Institute According to Fox Business reporter Shibani Joshi, renewables are successful in Germany and not in the U.S. because Germany has “got a…
Obama Administration Installs Solar Panels on White House – Mother Earth News
350.org founder and well-known environmentalist Bill McKibben applauded the Obama Administration’s announcement that they are at work installing a new set of solar panels on the White House roof. “Better…
When Taxpayer Dollars Subsidize Environmental Destruction – Mother Earth News
As the Earth Council report “Subsidizing Unsustainable Development” pointed out, “There’s something unbelievable about the world spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually to subsidize its own destruction.” One way…
Remaking Auto Alley – Mother Earth News
In Small, Gritty, and Green (MIT Press, 2012), Catherine Tumber takes a look into America’s once thriving industrial cities throughout the Rust Belt. Many cities in this region are known…
Challenging and Changing the Energy Industry – Mother Earth News
Fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and the global economy. It has upended the business models of companies in the energy industry around the globe, and it…
Powering the Electricity Grid Together – Mother Earth News
“Distributed energy” refers to electricity generation from many small-scale (often renewable) sources tied into the grid to meet the power demand of local communities — such as solar arrays or…
A Growing Movement – Mother Earth News
Money is shifting away from coal, oil and gas thanks to a growing coalition that’s pressuring universities and other prominent institutions to divest from fossil fuels. Even the heirs of…
Power from the People – Mother Earth News
When you pay for the energy you use, where does your money go? Chances are it goes out of town, out of state, or even out of the country. Wouldn’t…
Cost of Renewable Energy Now Competitive with Cost of Fossil Fuels – Mother Earth News
Right now, a new solar photovoltaic (PV) system gets installed in the United States every four minutes, totaling about 130,000 systems in a year. That rate is expected to jump…