oldephartte(in training): 30 July

NEW YORK -- You can now fit a wind or solar farm into your portfolio, even if your portfolio isn't exactly vast. Energy companies are wrapping renewable energy projects and other power-related assets that generate steady cash into new companies they ...

More Utilities Are Shifting to Renewable Energy

Triple Pundit

“Renewables — including wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, waste heat and small-scale hydroelectric — accounted for a whopping 49 percent of new U.S. electric generating capacity in 2012, with new wind development outpacing even natural gas,” writes ...

Apple profiled for renewable energy in sapphire factory, says supply-chain is ...

9 to 5 Mac

After showing more journalists around its solar-powered North Carolina data center (where it is building a third solar farm), Apple says that its new focus for renewable energy is its supply chain. The Guardian reports that the sapphire factory in ...

Germany Now Produces 28.5% of Energy from Renewables

TIME

Germany set a new record on green energy in the first half of 2014, by producing 28.5% of its energy entirely from renewable sources, according to a report released Tuesday by the energy trade association BDEW. The industrial powerhouse of Europe, ...

Human Habitat

ecology water energy

Ecology plan calls for $610K cleanup of contaminated Squalicum Harbor site

Bellingham Herald

The Department of Ecology recently released its plan for the upland portion of the site at 2652 Harbor Loop Drive that was contaminated with petroleum-related metals and chemicals from Weldcraft's boat building, repair and maintenance work between 1946 ...

Ecology official who sees citizens as prey can keep his job

Watchdog.org

Washington Department of Ecology's Ben Penhale, who compares citizens to a hunter's prey, can keep his job, benefits and authority, the department says. The brouhaha started on Dec. 7, 2012, when Penhale was asked to clarify regulatory jurisdiction to ...

Next Generation Learning About Nation's Ecology

Bahamas Tribune

ECO CAMPERS from throughout the Bahamas recently returned home after participating in an exciting week-long camp for students aged 13–16, where they learned about the ecology and culture of Andros, and the importance of conserving natural ...

Historical Ecology Highlights Power of Interdisciplinary Research

Laboratory Equipment

The group's goal was to use historical ecology— research that focuses on the interactions between humans and their environment over long periods of time, typically over the course of centuries— to demonstrate the importance of interdisciplinary research.

Water Power

water floods pollution

UCLA water main rupture: Repairs to take 'extended period of time'

Los Angeles Times

Repairs to a ruptured water main near UCLA that gushed up to 10 million gallons of water onto Westwood roads as well as the campus will not be completed Wednesday and may take "an extended period of time," a utility official said. The effort to repair ...

Mall at Green Hills closed due to water outage in area

The Tennessean

Metro Water Services released a statement saying that areas supplied by the Harding Road and Thompson Lane pumping station have run dry. Crews are still working to determine why, but have located a break in a 30-inch water main leaving the station, ...

Detroit Woman Pledges to Go Vegan So PETA Will Pay Her Water Bill

ABC News

As thousands of Detroit residents struggle without water, one woman is reaching out to an unlikely source to help pay for her overdue bill: PETA. The catch? Leslie Turner will have to go vegan for thirty days as part of a deal she struck with the ...

UCLA-area water main break spews millions of gallons

Los Angeles Times

A 90-year-old water main burst under Sunset Boulevard on Tuesday, producing a raging geyser that sent 8 million to 10 million gallons of water onto the UCLA campus, flooding several buildings, including the famed Pauley Pavilion. It took the Los ...