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Sungevity’s Solar Popsicle Truck Promises More than Just a Cool Treat

9:55 am in new york city, solar, solar energy, solar power, solar technology by TreeHugger

sungevity solar ince pop truck photo Photo: Mat McDermott It's a perfect storm for expansion in the solar leasing business which has led the smallest of the big three solar lease providers to march eastward. Sungevity credits high energy costs, especially in some of the Northeastern states, with new found interest. We're moving beyond ethical principles and onto economics. Sungevity is showing consumers that they can cool down on the cheap by pushing popsicles in a biodiesel solar powered ice pop truck, while at the same ti...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Threatened Tortoises Slow Down Desert Solar Project

3:55 am in alternative energy, deserts, endangered species, solar, solar technology, Travel & Nature, turtles by TreeHugger

desert-tortoise.jpg Threatened desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). Photo by Beth Jackson/US Fish and Wildlife Service The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of construction while the U.S. Bureau of Land Management assesses whether more than 3,000 acres of tortoise habitat would be lost. It is believed t...Read the full story on TreeHugger