Viking M. Services: Pew Finds Clean Energy Economy Generates Significant Job Growth

Viking M. Services: Pew Finds Clean Energy Economy Generates Significant Job Growth (video)

But we knew that, didn't we?

Phrase questions right to see public actually strongly supports action against climate change

Always amazing how powerfully word choices can distort public opinion polls. Here's good news for climate action advocates:

Op-Ed Contributor - The Climate Majority - NYTimes.com

Will detailed info on "Cash Saved in NYC on Green Retrofits" inspire others?

This is a great idea, a case of hard-to-get information, the nitty-gritty details of how you do it, and how much you save, being given away in a good cause.

Report Details Cash Saved in NYC on Green Retrofits | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Calculate Energy Loss – Vampire Power Tips

Clever tool by iGo, which of course sells devices that reduce vampire power: drag your devices over the rooms of the home and watch the watts mount up. I couldn't get the state dropdown to show New Mexico -- only a dozen states show -- but you'll definitely get the idea.
Calculate Energy Loss – Vampire Power Tips

Make resin for plastics from sugar cane instead of oil, and sequester CO2 at the same time

I'd love to know the chemistry involved. Typically there's a high energy barrier to transform one kind of chemical into another, but maybe clever use of bacterial enzymes is involved. Still, it's a great accomplishment, and a powerful way to move to a new era of carbon-sequestering production, while still allowing us all the Tupperware we crave. Well, maybe not all, but still!

Shocking but not surprising jump in PV installed in Germany

1.34 gigawatts of photovoltaic installed in just the month of December 2009 in Germany...Germany!...and do you know what the installed base is in the U.S.? 450 MEGAwatts, total (as of 2008). It's not that sunny in Germany, as you know, but as I hope you know, the government requires utilities to pay an above-market payment for all PV-generated electricity, so, yes, govt. policy works...

News - Clean Edge - The Clean-Tech Market Authority

Wind farm off Cape Cod finally gets U.S. go-ahead

Although opposition will likely continue, experts interviewed say further protests are unlikely to be able to do more than add another year or two of delays to a project that has already survived 9 years of obstructionism.

The Green Blog - A Boston Globe blog on living Green in Boston