Here is a brief list of some of the interesting sustainability news articles from this week: Carbon Bubble Growing, but Markets Aren’t Listening American Airlines Makes Historic Order for Fuel Efficient Airplanes Walgreens to Install EV Charging Stations at 800 Stores GSA Admin Talks Future Workspace And you’ll find more headlines at CEILeadership.org! Original post
With a 54-mile range as a “pure electric vehicle,” Virginia Tech’s EcoCar has some true green credentials. The vehicle can be run on gasoline, e-85 or electricity; and in the end this gives the car an 80 mpg-e rating. But the EcoCar challenge also required cars to be consumer friendly, which often includes performance. TheRead… Read more »
The energy sector is expected to expand in the coming years and the number of troops returning home is expected to increase as well. Perhaps with this in mind, the Department of Energy has teamed up with several energy companies and the Center for Energy Workforce Development to launch the Troops to Energy Jobs program.Read… Read more »
Urban Smart Grid and Energy Innovation from Penn IUR on Vimeo. Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, talks about the Urban Smart Grid. Things really begin at the 8 minute mark, where he begins to describe how your EV can be an asset for the smart grid. Talk about being plugged in.Read… Read more »
We all remember a time not that long ago when PCs cost a small fortune and cell phones were worth their weight in gold. Obviously, times change. The electronics and computing industries developed increasingly-powerful and ever-cheaper products. The result? Lower prices and greater usage. How does this apply to solar panels? Since solar technology is,Read… Read more »
For this week’s Top 10 Twitter list we’re focusing on renewable energy. There is plenty of information sharing on Twitter about renewable energy, but these are the ten folks we think are leading the charge. @REWorld – The world’s #1 Renewable Energy News and Information Source @NWcleantech – NW Cleantech is a digital community connectingRead… Read more »
Can wind, water and sunlight power the world? Professor Mark Jacobson of Stanford University lays out a plan to do just that. Professor Jacobson starts off by talking about why it’s important to find clean energy sources, and then jumps into the details of the energy options at about minute 8 of the talk. OriginalRead… Read more »
Here is a brief list of some of the interesting sustainability news articles from this week: By the numbers: The top eco car DoD Announces Results of Renewable Energy Projects Review Wind Speeds Elevated Across the US in Q2 2011 US Green Economy Has 2.7 Million Jobs And you’ll find more headlines at CEILeadership.org! OriginalRead… Read more »
Time for another Top 10 Twitter list from CEIL! This week, we’ve compiled 10 of our favorite Twitter feeds with a focus on wind energy. @AWEA – AWEA is the voice of wind energy in the U.S., promoting renewable energy to power a cleaner, stronger America. WindPower_Eng – Windpower Engineering & Development covers all aspectsRead… Read more »
Last week, the EIA released two great charts that display the expansion of the country’s wind energy capacity in the years after 2005. In the chart above, 2009 stands out as a particularly great year for wind. But 2010 did not build on the momentum from 2009; why? According to the EIA’s brief text thatRead… Read more »