oldephartte(in training): 12 Mar

With Governor Snyder's recent announcement of clean energy goals for Michigan, the conversation is quickly developing around the future role of renewable energy in the state. To help inform that conversation, a newly released analysis by my UCS ...

Cheap batteries will revolutionise the renewable energy market

The Guardian

Renewables like solar and onshore wind are coming down dramatically in price – the industry forecasts they will be cheaper than grid electricity in most of the world by 2025 – but they have a key disadvantage: they do not produce electricity when ...

Nuclear Energy Rising At The Expense of Renewable Power

Forbes

Some countries such as Germany, Italy and Sweden have chosen to scale back their nuclear production and to increase their renewable generation to help the continent meet its carbon reductions goals. But others, like China and the United Kingdom, are ...

Tetra Pak 'Won't Race to be First' on Renewable Cartons

Environmental Leader

Tetra Pak is not “racing to be the first” company with a 100 percent renewable carton employing bio-based material. The company's environment performance director Mario Abreu tells FoodProductionDaily that Tetra Pak is a leader in replacing fossil ...

Human Habitat

ecology water energy

Ecology working with irrigators on Columbia River drawdown

Yakima Herald-Republic

Lowering water levels in the Columbia River has relieved pressure on the damaged section of Wanapum Dam, but it's creating water supply problems for some irrigators. The state Department of Ecology is urging water users upstream of the damaged dam ...

No more teddy bear picnics

The Economist (blog)

PADDINGTON loved marmalade. Winnie went for honey from a pot. But ecologists and rangers worry most about bears like Yogi, famous for stealing picnics from visitors to Jellystone Park. A new study led by Jack Hopkins from Montana State University and ...

IEI Expert Panel to Study Ecology Reports

The New Indian Express

The Institution of Engineers (India) has appointed an expert panel headed by M P Sukumaran Nair, former special secretary to the Chief Minister, to deliberate and review the Western Ghats Ecology Experts Panel Report. The terms of reference to the ...

Beaver ecology program at Elk's Nature Center Saturday

Southernminn.com

Join the Minneopa Area Naturalist Scott Kudelka for an interpretive program on Beaver Ecology at 1 p.m. March 15 the Elk's Nature Center in Mankato's Rasmussen Park. This aquatic mammal spends a great amount of time in the water and has the ability to ...

Water Power

water floods pollution

Farmers Fear Proposed Water Rules Will Require Costly Permits

New York Times

Water rarely flows in one of the streambeds — it really seems to be little more than a small ditch — that Dean Lemke points out to a visitor on his 800-acre farm in Dows, Iowa. “I wouldn't even call it a stream,” he said. “There is only water flow in ...

SF bans water bottles

San Francisco Bay Guardian

San Francisco continues to lead the way in the nation's environmental policy, with the Board of Supervisors on March 4 voting unanimously to bar the city from buying plastic water bottles and to ban distribution of plastic water bottles smaller than 21 ...

Water-To-Wine Machine Sound Too Good To Be True? It Is

NPR (blog)

Wine to Water says it has provided 250,000 people in 17 countries with clean water since 2004, with projects like repairing broken wells, installing rain water harvest tanks and distributing filters. However, because its annual revenues amount to less ...

Turning Coffee Into Water to Expand Business Model

New York Times

Now Toms has developed a line of coffee, the sales of which will be used to provide clean water for cooking and drinking as well as for sanitation to the more than two billion people around the globe the United Nations estimates lack such essentials.