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Community Solar Gardens Help Renters Go Green, but Solar Companies are Concerned

Jennifer Lance — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:18:41 +0000

If you live rent an apartment, own a condominium, live in a shady neighborhood, or simply don’t want solar panels on your roof, residents of Colorado have a solution: community solar gardens. What’s a community solar garden? It’s a unique idea to allow residents to purchase a share of a large solar array that would [...]

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Engineered Virus Causes Tobacco Plants to Grow Solar Cells

Jennifer Lance — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:33:10 +0000

Tobacco, once the glory crop of the South Atlantic region of the United States, has fallen in stature as health problems associated with smoking the plant have come to light. Now tobacco may be able to redeem itself by producing solar cells, according to researchers at the University of California at Berkeley. By infecting tobacco [...]

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Glitter-Sized Solar Panels Use 100 Times Less Silicon to Generate Electricity

Jennifer Lance — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:46:16 +0000

As a preschool teacher, glitter is part of my world. These tiny, shiny flecks are loved by little children, yet are detested for the problem their tiny size makes clean-up. Solar energy used to have the opposite problem: the large size of photovoltaic panels needed to produce energy was considered prohibitive for many [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions at Colorado’s Green Breweries

Scott James — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:53:15 +0000

Green beer doesn’t just mean toasting to a four-leaf clover on St. Patrick’s Day or buying a six pack of Rolling Rock. Colorado breweries are at the forefront of the green revolution, essentially leading the way toward creating products with renewable energy. In Colorado, two major brewing companies each made announcements of green improvements to [...]

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Senator Feinstein’s Desert Monument Bill: Hurting or Helping Solar?

Susan Kraemer — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:14:07 +0000

Despite her unblemished past record of good votes on environmental, renewable energy and climate change prevention; Senator Feinstein has just confounded the media by proposing a bill that would seem to have the effect of slowing solar energy development in California’s deserts, by placing some portion of it off-limits. Of course, most jumped on [...]

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Once-in-a Millennium Chance to Make a Clean Powered Future

Susan Kraemer — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:56:04 +0000

Not all 6 billion of us use fossil fuels. The last one or two billion, in energy poverty; don’t yet have any electricity at all. This starting point of zero now presents humanity with a very rare opportunity for a do-over. Most of the rise in CO2 in the next century will actually come, not [...]

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Fossil-Funded Group Succeeds in Spreading Lies About How Much Water Desert Solar Uses

Susan Kraemer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:04:07 +0000

The Heartland Institute, the infamous fossil-industry-funded climate denier group that faked 500 scientists to deny climate change, is now creating a new fake narrative about water use in utility scale solar. They did a very thorough job of disseminating their 500 supposed skeptic climate scientists story; as Desmogblog notes – helpfully printing 150,000 copies [...]

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Adopt a Solar Panel and Give the Gift of Green

Derek Markham — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:36:11 +0000

A new program from renewable energy company EarthSure promises to reduce the costs of solar power and increase the use of solar panels, while helping schools, churches, and hospitals. The program is called “SolarCure”, more specifically the “Adopt a Panel” plan, and it enables individuals and businesses to pledge funds for solar panel installations at [...]

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