1:11 pm in alternative energy, bangladesh, News, solar photovoltaic by TreeHugger
"Solar panel provided by Grameen Shaktri to rural Bangladesh." Image credit:Flickr,
Marufish
The
evWind blog has published news that the Infrastructure Development Company has increased to 993,000 the number of Bangladeshi residential solar units that they have helped fund. That brings the total number of persons served with residential solar units in the nation to around 5 million, it is estimated. The next IDC target is 2.5 million homes solar-served by 2014. By absolute number, that's got...
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3:12 pm in Business & Politics, events, News, obama administration, solar photovoltaic, Take Action, white house by TreeHugger
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350.org
Last October, as the result of some savvy campaigining from my friends at
350.org, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that the White House would "lead by example" by installing solar panels by the start of the 2011 summer. With one week until summer officially kicks off, the White House has yet to make it good on its commitment. 350.org is putting together another push to get the Obama Administration over the finish line and it needs your help.
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8:48 pm in alternative energy, Business & Politics, News, solar, solar photovoltaic by TreeHugger
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Sungevity
Sungevity's solar revolution is coming to a Lowe's near you. Lowe's, the second-largest U.S. home improvement retailer, bought into the California based Sungevity and the home improvement behemoth's customers will soon be able to use Sungevity's home mapping technology to see which solar installation is right for them. The press release is
here. ...
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5:07 am in audio video, Culture & Celebrity, green jobs, recycled building materials, solar photovoltaic by TreeHugger
Photo: the nomad
After
pop-up restaurants and
stores, we now have
The Nomad,the UK's first "roaming pop-up cinema."
It uses inflatable screens of up to 60 square metres, shows up at unusual places across England and encourages you to watch their films in costume.
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While the US continues to be a laggard on dealing with the climate crisis, the EU has already committed to cutting its GHG emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. But because that level ambition is not enough to stop climate change and more action will help to create more green jobs, many, including huge multinational corporations, are pushing for the EU to increase its ambition to a 30 percent cut below 1990 levels by 2020. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
