9:41 am in alternative energy, Business & Politics, economics, poverty, renewable energy, solar, solar power, united kingdom, wind energy by TreeHugger
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When I posted an interview with
wind energy pioneer Dale Vince, one
Facebook commenter took issue with my references to his "hippie dropout" past, and the fact that he is now on Britain's rich list. The idea that we should be impressed by how his "...
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8:00 am in Business & Politics, california, carbon emissions, carbon footprints, economics, global climate change, united states by TreeHugger
While there was some
uncertainty over the status of cap and trade in California back in May, the largest State in the US is only months away from potentially adopting a hugely comprehensive cap and trade bill. Of course
Tea Partiers will protest the creeping conspiracy to enforce an inhabitable planet on God-fearing patriots, but the fact is that climate science is not going away, and neither are the dire problems that it warns of. Carbon limitatio...
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9:43 am in alternative energy, Business & Politics, communities, economics, renewable energy, united kingdom by TreeHugger
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From
community-owned wind farms overcoming NIMBYism to
local residents installing solar panels on a nearby brewery roof, people power is on the rise. And with energy costs rising, and traditional investments looking ever shakier, it's little wonder that communities are banding together to find places to put their money that both protect the envir...
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8:47 am in alternative energy, economics, renewable energy, solar, solar power, united kingdom by TreeHugger
Want solar panels but don't want to pay for them? Feed-in tariffs have already enabled
free solar for schools programs in the UK, and in the US folks are enjoying
solar for no money down thanks to innovative leasing schemes. Now Business Green reports a similar scheme is
offering at least UK£30m (about US$45m) of funding for free solar panels. (Some ...
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9:15 am in communities, economics, solar, solar power, united kingdom by TreeHugger
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I reported before on huge public support for a
community-owned power station on a local brewery in Lewes, England. But time was not on the project's side—a radical
rethink of Government solar subsidies meant that large scale solar projects had to be completed before August 1st to qualify for suport that would make them financially viable. News comes that
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