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• Modeling the Economy As a Physics Problem [to stabilise CO2 emissions]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  University of Utah physicist Tim Garrett has published a study that approaches the economy and its relation to global warming as a physics problem — and comes to some controversial conclusions: that rising carbon dioxide emissions cannot be stabilized unless the worlds economy collapses or society builds the ...
  23 hours ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  1 day ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  1 day ago

• The Trouble with Cap and Trade

  
  the green skeptic — Authority: 122
  Image by Getty Images via Daylife On Tuesday, the State of California announced its plans for its own cap-and-trade program as part of Assembly Bill 32, which aims to cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 15 percent by 2020. The California Environmental Protection Agencys Air Resources Board released its scoping plan, ...
  3 days ago

• CH2M Hill Cuts Paper Use by 21% from 2006 to 2008

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 615
  CH2M HILL, a global consulting, design, construction, and operations firm, has decreased per employee paper usage 21 percent between 2006 and 2008 and increased electronic waste recycling by almost 4 percent in 2008, according to the company’s 2009 Sustainability Report (PDF).Here are some highlights of the ...
  1 week ago

• Thoughts for Copenhagen

  
  Robert Kyriakides's Weblog — Authority: 129
  Around fifty years ago energy was relatively expensive and formed a large part of most people’s budgets. Then in the United Kingdom there were few homes with central heating and most homes had one light bulb for each room. Water was generally heated by an electric immersion heater (usually made of copper and ...
  1 week ago

• An upgrade makes “Jaguar” the world’s fastest supercomputer

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, November 21 (ANI): Reports indicate that an upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the US Department of Energy has made the “Jaguar” supercomputer the world’s fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is the scientific research community’s most powerful ...
  1 week ago

• PecoBOO watches you

  
  Centre Flow — Authority: 138
  You know you should be saving energy, and that every little bit helps. But sometimes you just plain forget to turn things off.If only there was something to remind you…Very PC understands and has developed software that will do the remembering for you. The program is called PecoBOO (that’s p-ECO-boo, get it?) and ...
  1 week ago

• Will consumers plug into home energy displays?

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  Dozens of companies are developing tools to ratchet down home energy use as part of utility smart grid programs, but nobody is sure which approach will stick with consumers.
  1 week ago

• Smart grids drag utilities into the swamp of online privacy

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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  1 week ago

• GreenBeat: Utilities eye their own ‘iTunes App Stores’ for Smart Grid apps

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  “Every utility will have its own version of the iTunes App Store,” said Austin Energy, CIO of Austin Energy, during this morning’s utility panel at GreenBeat 2009 in San Mateo, Calif. — essentially, every major utility, in order to be at the cutting edge of the Smart Grid, will need to have a full portfolio ...
  1 week ago

• California the First State to Set Efficiency Standards For Flat Screens

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 613
  Here’s a fun fact: televisions and their related accoutrement (cable boxes, DVD players, and the like) account for 2 percent of all energy use in the state of California. Now, while the “fun-ness” of that may be debatable, the veracity is certainly not. Indeed, Californians buy over 4 million televisions every ...
  1 week ago

• GreenBeat speaker EcoFactor takes top honors Cleantech Open

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  Making the rounds of Smart Grid events (and there are quite a few of them this season), smart thermostat company EcoFactor nabbed the $250,000 grand prize in yesterday’s Cleantech Open business plan competition. EcoFactor’s Scott Hublou will be speaking today at GreenBeat 2009.Based in San Francisco, the company ...
  1 week ago

• The Smirking Monkey Is Going Out Of Business - Please help out

  
  Energy Tough Love Blog — Authority: 125
  :} Community Energy Systems is a nonprofit 501c3 organization chartered in Illinois in Sangamon County. As such we are dependent on public donations for our continued existence. We also use Adsense as a fundraiser. Please click on the ads that you see on this page, on our main page and on our Bulletin Board ...
  1 week ago

• Green Buildings Do Double Duty: Reduce Energy Use, Lower Financial Risk

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 615
  The potential for energy use reductions in old and new buildings is significant, according to a report from KPMG. The study finds that energy consumption in buildings can be cut by 30 to 50 percent and still produce a positive return on investments. Plus, real estate groups can get a business boost from green ...
  1 week ago

• GreenBeat: Google’s Lu, OPower’s Yates join the program

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  There’s one day to go before GreenBeat 2009 takes off, and we’re still adding Smart Grid experts to the agenda. Rounding out the program, we have Google PowerMeter engineer (and former astronaut!) Ed Lu, and OPower CEO Dan Yates, each adding their own brand of expertise to the conversation on consumer-facing ...
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• All Pain, No Gain … by Paul Driessen

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 458
  All Pain, No Gain Restricting and taxing energy use to prevent speculative climate disasters will be disastrous By Paul Driessen ************************* “Electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket” under cap-and-trade,” President Obama has admitted. “Industry will have to retrofit its ...
  1 week ago

• Turning the world upside down

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 140
  If you had asked me this morning if I thought dinosaurs were warm blooded or cold blooded I would most certainly have responded cold. That’s what I was taught 5 decades ago in school and it has been reinforced over and over again by comparing dinosaurs to modern day lizards. If you were to ask me this afternoon I ...
  2 weeks ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Heinz On Track to Reduce GHG Emissions, Waste, Energy Use and Water Consumption 20% by 2015

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 615
  H. J. Heinz Company has significantly reduced its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, solid waste, energy use and water consumption over the past year, keeping the company on track to meet its 20 percent reduction target across the board by 2015, according the firm’s 2009 Corporate Social Responsibility Report.Here are ...
  2 weeks ago

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