oldephartte(in training): 17 April

Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis. What: Shares of Renewable Energy Group Inc (NASDAQ: REGI ) fell as ...

US Energy Dept plans $4 billion in loan aid for renewable energy

Reuters

The department credits the program with helping to jumpstart private investment in industrial scale U.S. solar power plants and hopes to replicate that success with new renewable energy technologies that are on the cusp of financial viability. "That's ...

8 Colleges That Are Energetic About Going Green

U.S. News & World Report

A few schools power all of their heating, cooling and electricity with renewable resources. plants. One residence hall at Swarthmore College has a green roof. All of the college's energy consumption comes from renewable resources. By Allie Bidwell ...

More Renewable Energy Needed To Avoid Catastrophic Climate Change

CleanTechnica

Abu Dhabi, UAE: The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) reinforced the call to action from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to limit global temperature increase and avert catastrophic climate change in a statement issued ...

Human Habitat

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Student seeks sponsors for Ottawa ecology trip

Prince Albert Daily Herald

A Prince Albert teen is seeking sponsors for a trip to Ottawa in which she will join students from across the country to learn about ecology and the environment. © Herald photo by Matt Gardner. Grade 11 student Maddi Sutor stands outside Rivier Academy ...

Chanute High School Ecology Day Monday

Chanute Tribune

Student Government Sponsor Karen Graham said Ecology Day is in its 15th year. It was started when Kent Wire became principal and based on Earth Day with an added focus of helping the community. “It's just kind of a way that our students can give back ...

Clemson, Yawkey Wildlife Center join forces in coastal ecology research

Pickens Sentinel

GEORGETOWN — Clemson University's Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources' Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center and the Yawkey Foundations will join forces to launch a nationally ...

Darwin was right

The Economist

They report in Ecology that 16 of the gulls which had been dabbling carried larvae or viable eggs when they were given their enforced bath. One, indeed, had 18 such creatures attached to it. Of those gulls that had eschewed the water, only two carried ...

Water Power

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Portland, Ore., is dumping 38 million gallons of drinking water because of a ...

Washington Post

It took one teenager urinating in a reservoir for the city of Portland, Ore., to dump enough water to fill about 57 Olympic-size swimming pools, even though the water was deemed to be safe. A 19-year-old man was spotted on camera urinating through a ...

Teen urinates in Oregon reservoir. Millions of gallons of drinking water wasted.

Washington Post

Just after 1 a.m. Wednesday, April 16, 2014, Portland Water Bureau security staff observed on camera three men at Mt. Tabor Reservoir Number 5 in Southeast Portland. A 19-year old man was filmed urinating through the iron fence into the reservoir ...

Beachside boil-water order disrupts life's flow

Florida Today

INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH – Thousands of beachside faucets only produced trickles Tuesday, closing coffee shops and forcing annoyed residents to dump buckets of pool water into toilet tanks. Roughly 12,000 beachside homes and businesses remain ...

DeKalb Avenue reopens after water main break

Atlanta Journal Constitution

... Thursday night after a predawn water main break flooded the roadway. The break, near the intersection of DeKalb Avenue and Elmira Place, was reported just before 6 a.m. Emergency repairs were completed around 8 p.m. and water service was restored.