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Proof Canada could be 100% powered by renewable energy
April 29, 2013
The growth in wind energy since 2003 in the United States provides clear evidence for what Canada might have achieved during the same period, or could over the coming decade if we were smart. For a measly $120 billion, or say about $10 billion a year for the next ten years, we could, in Canada be powered 100% by renewable energy, earning strong and sustained profits for more than twenty years.
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Permaculture Solar House for Heating and Cooling
April 18, 2013
Free energy is hard to come by these days. Taking advantage of it makes a whole lot of sense as a way to save money, create more comfort, and preserve the planet for our children.
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Oil, gas, coal, and nuclear industries are NOT really profitable
April 18, 2013
"None of the world's top industrial sectors would be profitable if they were paying their full freight. None!" according to a UN sponsored report, says David Roberts on Grist.
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Charge Up Your Phone with Solar
April 10, 2013
Solar charge your phone or tablet for free at your local coffee shop. Today PowerBarr annouced a feedback, support and funding event. You are invited to Evergreen Brick Works to try out PowerBarr Beta with a free solar charge for your phone or tablet on April 15th at 7pm. This is a fund raising event with a goal of $5,000 to help build the next generation of PowerBarr and extend the network of charging locations.
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Introduction to Permaculture
March 18, 2013
As the number of stories in the news that portend doom and gloom increases, it makes more and more sense to dig into some of the ways more and more people are fighting back. Permaculture has much to teach us about how to live a better life.
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Binga Zimbabwe Eco-Village in the Making
March 12, 2013
Help the people of Binga create new self-sufficient sustainable buildings as a part of a new Eco-Village.
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Winning the Renewable Revolution Against All Odds
February 22, 2013
Germany has the strongest economy in Europe with large scale industrial production that leads the world. At the same time this, the most advanced industrial power in the world, is operating increasingly on renewable energy.
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RENEWABLE ENERGY NOW CHEAPER THAN NEW FOSSIL FUELS
February 11, 2013
Research shows that as of 2011 renewable energy is cheaper than gas or coal in Australia. Undoubtedly the gas and coal companies will be trying to prevent this type of research from becoming known for other regions like Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Africa. More than likely it is already true or soon will be.
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Crowdsourcing Solar
February 6, 2013
Solar makes economic sense despite the lack of a carbon/pollution tax and despite the trillions of dollars in subsidies that have been given to oil, coal, gas, nuclear and transportation over the last fifty plus years. Yet, despite oil, coal, gas, nuclear and transportation industries passing on the true costs to tax payers like you and me for the past fifty years, solar power still makes economic sense in competition with and against the perpetrators of the greatest crimes against humanity, that results from the use of fossil and nuclear energy.
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Straw Bale Home in Haiti
January 20, 2013
Builders without Borders to build a prototype straw bale home, the first ever in Haiti.
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Solar Electric Vehicle Hitting the Streets
January 17, 2013
Imagine a world filled with solar powered vehicles. Smell the fresh clean air. Listen to the quiet hum of electric motors.
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Sun Rise:Your Complete Guide to Sustainable Living
January 16, 2013
Check out the Open iPub version of Sun Rise. This book explains in simple terms, how we all can start using solar energy, wind power, breathing walls, straw bale home construction techniques, passive solar design, smart windows, green roofs, and composting - today!
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Bullfrog Power and SolarShare partner to bring more clean, renewable energy to the Ontario grid
December 12, 2012
Leading green power provider provides financing to accelerate solar energy project development in Ontario Canada.
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Solar Thermal Upgrade: Heating and Hot Water
November 24, 2012
Think all solar thermal systems are the same. Think again. Imagine using a solar thermal hot water heating system for both your domestic hot water AND your heating. What is especially cool about this option is that radiant hot water heating systems can operate at lower temperatures than domestic hot water, allowing the system to have an impact in a wider variety of weather conditions.
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How Germany is Getting to 100 Percent Renewable Energy
November 17, 2012
By design Germany will be producing 80% of the countries energy from renewable sources by 2050. Already 25% of its power comes from renewable energy sources including solar, wind and biomas.
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Scotland on Target for 100% Renewable Energy by 2020
November 17, 2012
Check out the people of Scotland and their plan to get to 100% renewable energy by 2020. They've already made it to 35% renewables as of 2011.
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Our Colorado Off-The-Grid Solar Home
November 14, 2012
This modern off-the-grid solar home in the Colorado Rockies demonstrates the beauty and elegance of intelligent design that combines efficiency with renewable energy systems to create a comfortable and inexpensive lifestyle.
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Solar Supercharger for Electric Cars
October 16, 2012
Cruising down the coast of California would be a good experience in an electric car. How might that work you might ask if the maximum distance your electric car can go on a charge is 300 miles for the Tesla Model S pure electric car? Also, what good would it do if the pollution was simply shifted from the tailpipe to coal or gas plants?
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Free Fuel from the Sun
October 15, 2012
Does the source of fuel matter when we consider our energy choices? Fuel from the Sun is free and essentially unlimited. What does an unlimited fuel source mean for our future? Are the resources used to make solar panels the next determining factor for energy choices?
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Economics of Technology for Clean Drinking Water
October 12, 2012
Dean Kamen is the prolific inventor of the electric vehicle called Segway. More recently he has been working hard to create a machine that can turn even the most contaminated liquid into clean drinking water.
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German Coal-Fired Generation of Electricity Falls While Renewable Generation Rises
October 3, 2012
German renewable generation now exceeds generation from hard coal and generation from nuclear. Total renewable generation was less than brown coal in 2011. However, at last year's pace of growth, renewable generation may exceed that from brown coal by 2015.
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Take a small step, Solar and EVs will save us
October 1, 2012
Maybe the world is changing all around us and we simply haven't noticed. All we need to do, perhaps, is take one small step, and then keep doing that.
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Why are your tax dollars going to subsidize oil companies?
October 1, 2012
Did you know that more than $114 billion dollars will subsidize the oil industry in North America over the next ten years? Why do we allow our taxes to increase the already massive profits these companies make while also causing catastrophic consequences for our environment and human health?
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Small solar systems electricity rates below retail in Germany
October 1, 2012
According to a new report by Deutsche Bank "the cost of electricity from small PV systems in Germany is in some cases already below retail rates". That means the smaller solar systems are reaching that point where the electricity they generate costs less than that from the grid, a point called "grid parity", a point at which people would be crazy not to switch.
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Michigan Solar Home Update
September 25, 2012
This article describes the recent construction and addition of a 1.25 KW Uni-Solar thin-film laminate photovoltaic system.
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Report: Solar and Wind Cost Less
September 14, 2012
A new report out of Europe confirms what is intuitively obvious. Renewable forms of energy cost less.
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Five times as much oil, coal, gas...as scientists think is safe to burn...
July 24, 2012
The title of this article is based on a sentence from an article written by Bill McKibben in the most recent issue of Rolling Stones magazine (the link is at the end of this posting). We really are running out of excuses for inaction.
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Free Solar Panels and Support David Suzuki Foundation
July 19, 2012
Ontario has re-opened the microFIT program for solar panels. Now a company is offering to put the panels on your house for free and pay you for having them, based on a 20 year contract with the Ontario Government. This is real, it works, and you will be making a big difference in the fight against climate change.
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Electric Cars are Insanely Great
June 27, 2012
Having saved hundreds of dollars and largely eliminated any pollution, our new Chevy Volt electric (with a backup gasoline generator) car, is proving to be insanely great.
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Solar Myths Debunked
June 27, 2012
Check out this new ebook from Real Goods Solar. It has some good information that debunks common myths about solar power.
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This is Earth Photo Contest, Win $2000
June 19, 2012
PLANET Magazine is pleased to announce a unique new photo contest that celebrates and explores the natural beauty and wonder of our planet. For the last four years, PLANET has held the annual This is Earth Photo Contest with top judges, prizes, and international exposure for our entrants. This spring, we're introducing This Is Earth, a new contest with a theme we feel is sure to inspire photographers everywhere.
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Electric Car and Solar Power are a Perfect Mix
June 13, 2012
A car that takes you wherever you want to go without producing any pollution while costing you significantly less to operate. Solar energy for your home that will never run out, that produces no pollution, and that will never go up in cost. Combined, full energy and transportation autonomy that will save you money and your children's environment.
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Solar Electric Transit Bus Comes to North America
May 9, 2012
Imagine a large 12 meter long bus, quietly humming down your street, roof covered with solar panels, electric motor driven and running entirely on clean renewable energy. Well these buses are available and operating today in China. Now they are coming to North America reports the CBC.
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One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
May 7, 2012
Farming without fossil fuels can produce as much or more when using One Straw Revolution or Permaculture. If we took the time to observe nature we could be producing more of what we need without creating massive disruption. This being true, you also have to ask, why is the dominant system fossil fuel based?
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Solar Boat Completes Circumnavigation
May 3, 2012
Traveling more than 60,000 kilometres entirely using electricity generated by photovoltaic solar panels on the deck of this large boat. Compare that to $1000 for a medium/small size power boat using gasoline to cross lake Ontario, ignoring the terrible cost related to the pollution.
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Save $2000 per year, switch to electric
April 24, 2012
Switching to an electric car could save you up to $2000 per year and growing. Learn more about why switching to renewable energy and away from fossil/nuclear non-renewables makes so much sense.
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First Power is Indigenous Power
April 24, 2012
Donna Morton is the CEO and co-founder of First Power. She is an entrepreneur building a business on the idea that power really is the people. All the technology exists and is sitting on the table for us to make use of so that we can completely replace oil, gas and nuclear for all our energy requirements.
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Solar Kindle
April 10, 2012
Check out the future of book reading. Kindle now has a solar power charging cover.
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Sailors Keep Our Waters Blue by Learning to Boat Green
April 4, 2012
Want five things you can do today to make boating greener? Interested in learning more about switching to electric on your boat. See what Greg Martin has to say. Here is a sailor who is walking the talk, or in his case sailing the sail and motoring the auxiliary on electric.
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Solar that Works All Night with Grid Based Battery Storage
April 2, 2012
Just imagine if a battery could store all of the solar energy your solar panels collected each day. Then, when the sun goes down, or the clouds roll in, you'd still have all the electricity you need. That day has arrived. Electrovaya is testing a 1.5 MW lithium ion battery on the Arizona power grid.
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Green School Dream
March 28, 2012
Green School is an off-the-grid school in Bali that teaches kids how to build, garden, create (and get into college). The centerpiece of campus is the spiraling Heart of School, perhaps the world's largest freestanding bamboo building. See the video of the amazing design.
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Chevy Volt Test Drive
March 27, 2012
Getting an electric car like the Chevy Volt is a big step in the right direction. Making the switch from gasoline to electricity is a big change. What does it all mean for you?
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KNOCKING ON THE DEVIL'S DOOR: Our Deadly Nuclear Legacy
March 22, 2012
The unedited history of nuclear in the United States.
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Bringing Down the Empire: Challenging the Institutions of Domination
March 14, 2012
Check out The People's Book Project by Andrew Gavin Marshall. This new book currently being written is a heavily researched initiative to present a new understanding of the world, focusing specifically on historical, political, social, and economic power structures. The aim is to understand the ideas, institutions, and individuals which have come to be dominant over humanity, and thus, how humanity can free itself from the chains that bind it to its present state. Learn more and support this inspiring new idea.
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Growing Your Own Food
March 13, 2012
Spring is in the air. Time to get ready to grow some of the most delicious and health food you can imagine. Your own. It isn't hard. Check out this new video from the Solar Village that expains how.
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Electric Engine Conversion
January 23, 2012
Making the switch from gasoline to electric motor for your sailboat turns out to work exceptionally well. The future of boating, if not most transportation, is heading rapidly towards electric. Find out how it works.
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Wind Lens doubles capacity
January 3, 2012
Nuclear accident in Japan has universities there dreaming up new ways to make solar and wind energy sufficient to replace all of their nuclear power plants.
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Battery storage can take renewable energy from 20 to 100 percent
December 19, 2011
The grid makes it easy to share renewable energy for up to twenty percent of the supply. Beyond that requires investment in battery storage systems to make the transition to 100% renewable energy.
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Video: Greenest House in Canada?
December 15, 2011
Stunningly beautiful home shows off great green features like solar thermal hot water, green roofing, and Bullfrog Power 100% green energy.
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Occupy Ideas into Action
December 3, 2011
Be the ideas and action that will change everything. Yes, the occupy movement has shown us, we can simply take action now. Now is the time to be part of changing the way the world works.
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