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Anti-Nuclear Protest Uses Bikes, Boats and a Mock Evacuation of NYC (Photos)

2:39 pm in activism, bike, boats, clean energy, nuclear power, Take Action by TreeHugger

bike-protest-indian-point-nyc-2.jpg Photo Courtesy of Michael Natale, GammaBlog At 7:45 yesterday morning, a group of cyclists rode from Manhattan's Lower East Side to Grand Central Terminal. They were activists, wearing white jumpsuits painted with anti-nuclear slogans and pinwheels tacked on the hoods to represent clean energy. This ride was the first stage in a day of events that included a mock evacuation and a boat ride up the Hudson, calling for the shut down Indian Point, the aging nuclear power plant just 35 miles from New York City....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Wind Turbines Today Produce 300X the Power as Those Made 15 Years Ago

5:42 pm in alternative energy, clean energy, Science & Technology, united states, wind power by TreeHugger

wind-turbine-sunset.jpg Photo credit: jiazi via Flickr/CC BY-SA Wind power technology -- like solar, hydro, even nuclear -- is behind the times. As this report from the New York Times notes, "experts say that vast improvements in wind technology still lie ahead -- which makes sense for an industry that is about 100 years behind, say, that of t...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Historic Gdansk Shipyard To Be Heart Of Another Polish Revolution — This One In Wind Power

4:41 pm in alternative energy, clean energy, renewable energy, Science & Technology, wind power by TreeHugger

gdansk poland waterfront ships photo The Gdansk waterfront. Photo: Michael Cavén / Creative Commons. In 1980, some 17,000 ship builders went on strike in Poland's Gdansk Shipyard, winning historic recognition that helped lead to the collapse of the Soviet bloc and eventually catapulting their leader, electrician Lech Walesa, to the Polish presidency. Thirty years later, the plans that are being laid in the same shipyard might not shake the world, but they could make it quite a bit greener....Read the full story on TreeHugger

China is Kicking Our A@$ in Clean Energy: The Infographic

1:35 pm in alternative energy, Business & Politics, china, clean energy, united states by TreeHugger

china-us-renewable-infographic.jpg Infographic by One Block Off the Grid These days, I typically try to avoid proliferating the "China is kicking our ass in clean energy" mantra, if only because nobody seems to care -- regardless of how much Tom Friedman wants us to. (For the record, they are, and we should). But One Block Off the Grid's little infographic went and made it pretty clear just how China's investment in renewable energy compares to the United States' -- ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

China is Kicking Our A@$ in Clean Energy: The Infographic

1:35 pm in alternative energy, Business & Politics, china, clean energy, united states by TreeHugger

china-us-renewable-infographic.jpg Infographic by One Block Off the Grid These days, I typically try to avoid proliferating the "China is kicking our ass in clean energy" mantra, if only because nobody seems to care -- regardless of how much Tom Friedman wants us to. (For the record, they are, and we should). But One Block Off the Grid's little infographic went and made it pretty clear just how China's investment in renewable energy compares to the United States' -- ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Mayor Bloomberg Donates $50 Million To Sierra Club for Anti-Coal Campaign

10:30 am in activism, Business & Politics, clean energy, coal, Science & Technology, Take Action by TreeHugger

bloomberg photo Photo by ImagineCup via Flickr CC New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg is giving the Sierra Club a substantial gift -- $50 million to put toward battling coal-fired power plants across the nation. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Two Reasons Why "Clean Coal" Has Moved Off Stage

1:30 pm in Business & Politics, clean energy, coal power, usa by TreeHugger

stage of dreams photo "The Stage Of Dreams" Image credit:Flickr, spiritz There are two main reasons clean coal has moved offstage and they have little to do with engineering feasibility or environmental impact potential. The promise of 'clean coal' for power production has faded from public discourse mainly because, to prove it works at commercial scale, the technology requires government support (citing high costs, privately sponsored tests have been scaled down or halted). Mustering more billions of government support now would contradict one of the ascendant US political narrative...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Infinite Clean Energy Just Decades Away? Plans Laid for the First Fusion Reactor

11:58 am in Business & Politics, clean energy by TreeHugger

fusion-infinite-energy.jpg A fusion reactor in a Canadian museum. Photo credit: David R. Carrol via Flickr/CC BY Ah, nuclear fusion--that near-mythical idea that's only mentioned in whispers; that has long seemed doomed to linger on the sidelines of the "serious" energy debate. Okay, so I'm sort of overstating its outsider status (universities and governments have been researching the technology for decades), but it's true that solar, wind, nuclear fission, and fossil fuels dominate the conversation. There are plenty of reasons for that, but there's also a good r...Read the full story on TreeHugger

GOP’s Accomplishments This Year: Styrofoam Cups, Little Else

7:00 pm in Business & Politics, clean energy, congress by TreeHugger

global-warming-committee-dead.jpg Photo: FaceMePLS, Flickr, CC BY Politico, the right-leaning DC newspaper, has an interesting synopsis of the GOP's accomplishments in the energy and environment arena thus far this year. And it's interesting primarily because those accomplishments are next to nil. Sorry, I kept writing "interesting" up there -- I meant "depressing". Politico sums up the Read the full story on TreeHugger

How Just 3% of Denmark’s Trash Ends Up in a Landfill (Video)

11:57 am in Business & Politics, clean energy, europe, waste by TreeHugger

Anlaeg_skorsten.ashx.jpg This is an entry in my series on Denmark's myriad efforts in the climate and clean energy arena, and why they seem to work. I'm trying to find out if Denmark-ifying societies around the world might stop climate change ... Photo courtesy of Amfork.dk Back in 1970, Amagerforbrænding, a waste-to-energy plant, was opened outside of Copenhagen. Over the years, the city added upgrades -- the plant generates 26 MW of power, and provides distr...Read the full story on TreeHugger