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Creating a Sustainable Future: Germans love renewable energy

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Creating a Sustainable Future. Sustainable ideas for practical people. October 21, 2014. Germans love renewable energy. Germans generated one third of their electricity from renewable sources while enjoying unusually low wholesale electricity rates, one of the most reliable electricity grids in the world with only 16 minutes of power outages a year (15x more reliable than the US), due to a national policy for coordinating distributed generation. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe to this blog.

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Creating a Sustainable Future: August 2014

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Creating a Sustainable Future. Sustainable ideas for practical people. August 25, 2014. 4th hottest July on record. This July was the fourth-hottest July on record, and 2014 so far is tied for the third-hottest January-July period on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The rankings, which take into account average temperatures on land and ocean surfaces across the globe, come after a string of heat records from this spring and summer. NOAA ranked. Overall, Jul...

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Creating a Sustainable Future: March 2015

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Creating a Sustainable Future. Sustainable ideas for practical people. March 1, 2015. When oil and money mix. This is an extremely sobering and must read look from the New York Times at the impact of oil and money on the people living in North Dakota. It was not the first or most catastrophic blowout visited by Mr. Hamm, a sharecropper's son who became the wealthiest oilman in America and energy adviser to Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential campaign. Two years earlier, a towering derrick in...Blowo...

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Creating a Sustainable Future: Solar is a better investment than the stock market

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Creating a Sustainable Future. Sustainable ideas for practical people. March 1, 2015. Solar is a better investment than the stock market. By the NC Clean Energy Technology Center finds that in all but 4 of the 50 largest cities in the U.S., installing a fully-financed 5 kilowatt solar panel system makes more financial sense than investing in a popular stock market index fund. Further, the same system would beat the costs of buying energy from local utilities in 42 of those 50 cities. For average homeowne...

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Creating a Sustainable Future: July 2013

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Creating a Sustainable Future. Sustainable ideas for practical people. July 22, 2013. Another tar sands spill. Nobody understands' how to stop 6 week old spill at Alberta tar sands operation - with over 1,000,000 gallons spilled so far. Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. has been unable to stop an underground oil blowout that has killed numerous animals and contaminated a lake, forest, and muskeg at its operations in Cold Lake, Alberta. Everybody (at the company and in government) is freaking out about this...

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Creating a Sustainable Future: September 2013

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Creating a Sustainable Future. Sustainable ideas for practical people. September 26, 2013. Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant Closing. The Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor, one of the oldest nuclear plants in the country and the subject of heated battles over the decades, will close late next year, the company that owns it announced, less than two weeks after winning a protracted legal fight against the State of Vermont to keep it open. But Vermont Yankee and one in Wisconsin, Kewaunee, represent a more si...

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Creating a Sustainable Future: GAO: US not doing enough to address ocean acidification

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Creating a Sustainable Future. Sustainable ideas for practical people. October 21, 2014. GAO: US not doing enough to address ocean acidification. The federal government agencies tasked with studying, monitoring, and preventing the widespread acidification of our oceans have not been doing their job as well as they could be, according to a report. Released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Ocean acidification is one of the biggest and least-talked-about. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Creating a Sustainable Future: Is it too late for Miami?

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Creating a Sustainable Future. Sustainable ideas for practical people. March 1, 2015. Is it too late for Miami? You don't have to look 85 years into the future to see what a sinking world looks like—you only need to look as far as Miami. Over the last nineteen years, sea levels around the Miami coast have gone up 3.7 inches. In a post updated yesterday, McNoldy highlights three big problems that follow from those numbers—and they should worry all of us. First: Sea level rise is accelerating.

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Creating a Sustainable Future: May 2014

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Creating a Sustainable Future. Sustainable ideas for practical people. May 15, 2014. Predictable Carbon Tax vs. a Wildly Unpredictable Climate Change Tax. That when talking to businesses - we should be asking managers, owners, shareholders if they'd prefer a predictable tax on emissions or a wildly erratic and totally unpredictable tax on their businesses? The shift in our atmosphere causes countless taxes on organizations. Any business that struggled this winter due to storms. Links to this post. We can...