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Gov. Brown's renewable energy plan could boost solar, wind industries

Los Angeles Times

Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal this week to significantly boost the amount of energy California derives from renewable sources could reinvigorate the state's utility-scale solar and wind industries, as well as launch another land rush in the Mojave Desert.

Experts: Brown's support bodes well for green mandate

The Desert Sun

California utilities are on track to meet the state's current clean energy mandate, which requires them to buy 33 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020. In his inaugural address last week, Brown proposed raising that mandate to 50 ...

Time to re-calculate our renewables

BurlingtonFreePress.com

SPEED, through a variety of different programs, sought to turn up Vermont's renewable energy dial by building renewables here in Vermont — with local job growth and more energy dollars kept in the Green Mountain State — all while keeping rates low.

Caribbean Island Ditching Diesel In Favor Of Renewable Energy

CleanTechnica

What many of the tourists don't realize is that the majority of the electricity powering their needs comes from renewable energy. Yet for the residents of Bonaire, the switch from fossil-fueled to renewable energy systems has made a world of difference.

Human Habitat

ecology water energy

Editorial: Laws of ecology should guide landfill, coal-ash decisions

STLtoday.com

In his best-selling 1971 book “The Closing Circle,” Washington University biologist Barry Commoner introduced the world to the four laws of ecology, simple truths that have since guided much of the environmental movement: • Everything is connected to ...

UW-Madison School of Human Ecology to merge two preschool labs

Madison.com

The UW-Madison's School of Human Ecology has decided running two preschools as a teaching and learning laboratory is too expensive, so the 67 children enrolled at its Mineral Point Road site will have to find care elsewhere or move to the remaining ...

When Ecology and Values Become Entangled

Discover Magazine (blog)

Environmental journalism, by and large, reflects not just news of the day (and an underlying theme) but also the zeitgeist. For example, when I made ecology my beat in the late 1990s, stories about the biodiversity crisis were prevalent in mainstream ...

Ecology Action Centre 'backs off' activities after CRA audit

CBC.ca

We converse more and we call our charity lawyer more often before we speak out on issues and maybe we back off stuff we wouldn't otherwise have backed off of," says Mark Butler, policy director of the Ecology Action Centre. The EAC was one of a number ...

Water Power

water floods pollution

Water main, pipe breaks cause problems all over Atlanta

WXIA-TV

ATLANTA (WXIA) -- In sub-freezing weather like we have been having this week, any water on the streets is dangerous. Friday morning, a water main broke at Flat Shoals Road and Old National Highway in south Fulton County. The scene has since been ...

What Happens to Boiling Water at -3 Degrees? | The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel

You have to see what happens when boiling water hits the freezing cold air. It's pretty amazing. MORE ON WEATHER.COM: Arctic Outbreak Slams U.S.. 1 of 205. Commuters cross Wall Street, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, in New York. Dangerously cold air has ...

Water main closes Wilson Lane in Bethesda

Washington Post (blog)

Water crews have closed all the water valves involved in the main break at Wilson Lane and River Road in Bethesda. But water is still rolling, the agency said in a tweet. The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission said in a tweet, “Aging ...

CWRU closes due to Little Italy water main break

WKYC-TV

Case Western Reserve University also closed its campus at 2:30 p.m., posting on its website that the water main break has affected most buildings on the campus. The School of Dental Medicine clinic is also closed. The university said no one should use ...