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April 21 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
21 Apr 2018 at 5:51am
Headline News: The UAE was the second-largest investor in the renewable energy sector in the Middle East and Africa last year, investing $2.2 billion, up 2,815% over the previous year. The UAE recorded the second highest growth after Rwanda’s 8,665% as the African country invested $400 million in the renewable energy sector in 2017. [ZAWYA] [...]
April 20 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
20 Apr 2018 at 5:22am
Headline News: How can you create public transport in the jungle without polluting it? The isolated Achuar peoples of Ecuador have come up with an ingenious solution. Since April 2017, a canoe powered solely by solar energy travels back and forth along the 67-km (42-mile) stretch of the Capahuari and Pastaza rivers that connect their [...]
The April, 2018 Green Energy Times is Available
by George Harvey
19 Apr 2018 at 1:00pm
The April, 2018 Green Energy Times is being distributed and can be downloaded HERE. Individual articles are being uploaded and will be available soon.
April 19 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
19 Apr 2018 at 5:28am
Headline News: On Monday, the Puerto Rican power utility boasted that it had restored electricity to 97% in the nearly seven months since Hurricane Maria. Two days later, the precarious electric grid collapsed as a result of a minor accident, plunging the entire island into a blackout. According to officials, the power should be restored [...]
Jobs at Better Future Project
by Michelle Harrison
18 Apr 2018 at 8:55pm
Starting this summer, the Better Future Project will be expanding work nationally and helping to coordinate the national student fossil fuel divestment movement! If you or someone you know would be a good fit to join the growing team as a Campus Organizer, Better Future Projects is now hiring! Click here to see job [...]
April 18 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
18 Apr 2018 at 5:27am
Headline News: In its quarterly Renewable Energy Index, Green Energy Markets said the amount of renewable energy generated in Australia is set to exceed the original Renewable Energy Target of 41,000 GWh in 2020. That target was scrapped in 2015 by the federal government, because it took the position that the goal was impossible. [ABC [...]
CSWD announces new recycling guidance on bottle caps
by Michelle Harrison
17 Apr 2018 at 10:38am
Put caps back on bottles and jars before recycling It?s perhaps the most hotly debated ?blue-bin? recycling question of the decade: Should you put the cap back on that bottle before you recycle it? Or does the cap go in the trash? The Chittenden Solid Waste District (CSWD), the municipality that oversees recycling in Chittenden [...]
Battery Storage to Recharge the Clean Energy Transition ? New Report
by Michelle Harrison
17 Apr 2018 at 10:31am
Clean Energy Group makes the case for battery storage as an emerging opportunity to transform all sectors of the economy A report released today by the national nonprofit Clean Energy Group (CEG) sets out actions that activists and foundations can take to accelerate the clean energy transition with battery storage. The free [...]
April 17 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
17 Apr 2018 at 5:47am
Headline News: Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport may become the nation’s first airport to get 100% of its energy from solar power. Officials have agreed to move ahead with initial work on a third phase of its solar farm. The newest phase would help create enough electricity to pay the airport’s power bill, its chief executive said. [...]
April 16 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
16 Apr 2018 at 4:03am
Headline News: Two more Massachusetts offshore wind energy leases are moving toward auction by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, as southern New England and Mid-Atlantic states are hastening their own planning for wind power. The two lease tracts totaling 390,000 acres are located south of Martha?s Vineyard. [WorkBoat] Turbines off Block Island, [...]
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