With the help of funding from the US and logistics from the UN and NGOs, Israeli start-up Energiya will be offering financing as well as technology, helping to set up solar farms throughout Africa. The goal is to deploy $20B by 2020 to build 10,000 MW and supply green energy to 50M people
An essay written by David Biello for the Los Angeles Review of Books, bears witness to Superstorm Sandy's worst surge from the POV of a New Yorker living in Zone C. Biello asks, “instead of imagining a world without us; try a world because of us”
Grist is running a new chapter every day for a week from new book by @AlexSteffen about climate and cities, Carbon Zero
Not so fast — $500 million in cash from CA's cap-and-trade program has to be spent on greenhouse gas related programs — nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office says Governor Brown will only be able to use $100 million. CA Chamber of Commerce sues
The American Petroleum Institute says EPA went too far challenging its mandate for the use of 1.28 billion gallons of biodiesel in 2013, a 28% increase from the 2012 requirement.
Cities as tools to make climate change work for us, exploiting CO2 absorption as a means to increase yield — could carbon dioxide be the answer?
As the world warms, check in on the COP18 live feed or on-demand and follow the science
Larry Hagman, best known for role as oilman J.R. Ewing on “Dallas” was a fierce proponent of solar energy. Before he died, Hagman installed the world's largest residential solar array on his estate and served on the board of the Solar Electric Light Fund.
What if a storm like Sandy hits Boston? US Rep Ed Markey led a town hall-style meeting at the Great Hall in Faneuil Hall to consider measures to take
All cities have a shelf life but that's no reason to move away now
NOAA knows why there was a brief pause in global seal level last year
How is Hamburg, a classic industrial German city, transforming itself into a climate-friendly metropolis?
A new technology holds the promise of using solar power to create steam without having to boil water
Ecuador asks OPEC to develop a carbon tax policy for oil-exporting nations
Al Gore has a lot to say about climate politics in Washington and more
The UN warns that the gap between atmospheric GHG targets and current emissions levels increases climate disruption risks
The Department of Energy will assist development of small, modular nuclear reactors as part of its overall power strategy
Multiple maps show myriad site-specific impacts of Frankenstorm Sandy
A NY Post Op-Ed urges State regulators require Con Ed to spend money on waterproofing underground equipment instead of improving energy efficiency
Green leases for City government offices in San Francisco run into cost controversy
Science refines its ability to predict changed climate impacts and adaptation needs at the regional level
A new study maps global plans and considers policy drivers for building 1,199 new coal-burning power plants
An Ontario green energy plan is struck down by the World Trade Organization over local content provisions
The International Energy Agency supports a nordic regopma; plans to achieve carbon neutral energy systems by 2050
UK advocates pursue plans to get district-scale, combined heat & power systems up and running
Under a proposed rule, 85% of California's CO2 market revenues will be rebated to utility rate payers [$ub Climatewire]
Deploy the power of digital mapping to see Sandy's impact and plan for tomorrow
Will Sandy lighten the way to a more secure era of distributed power supplies?
Consider the climate risks facing the delicious food in a traditional Thanksgiving dinnner
One out of five residents of New York CIty public housing lost water, heat and power due to Sandy, why?
The economist who coined the concept of 'black swans' now advocates the value of 'antifragility' for a volatile world
Who is saying what about the controversial proposal for a federal carbon tax?
Over 100 global corporations are convinced, “Effective carbon pricing offers the potential to mobilize finance at a scale that can impact the climate challenge”
With the release of a study on the devastating threats posed by a destabilized climate, the chief of the World Bank urges committed global action
Even NYC buildings with back-up generators above basement levels found more system changes would be needed to face down the next Sandy
The back story on why it took almost three weeks for Long Islanders to get their power back
Energy efficiency is the best cure for high oil prices says the chief economist of the International Energy Agency
Observers worry that "social risk assessment" rules, now part of proposed project requirements, may be a cover for human rights repression
Exxon likes the idea of a carbon tax -- along with heading off EPA regulations and corporate tax code changes
Are NYC rooftops the best place for fuel tanks and telecom equipment to help face future weird weather events?
Germany extends its current surcharge for renewable power through 2014
The climate adaption assistance plans of a former Democratic Maine Governor were removed from the state's website by his Republican successor [$ub EE News]
Australia will end home solar power incentives six months ahead of plan to keep utility bills down
What is in the residue from the toxics-laced Gowanus Canal floods caused by Sandy?
What NYC knows now and what's ahead as a climate scientist considers Sandy's impact
Tests will be begin next year for a carbon trading market in Korea, a fast-growing GHG emitter
With new feed-in tariffs, domestic sales of locally produced and imported solar panels rises sharply in Japan
New York's devastation of Storms Irene and Sandy focuses the Governor on climate and energy policy leadership
Smart grid technology & off-grid distributed power systems could optimize adaptation to future fierce weather [$ub EE News]
California boosts green power and energy efficiency with unprecedented levels of public funding from Prop. 39 and its cap & trade program
President Obama's remarks on climate change spark a spate of crystal ball gazing
If carbon taxes should move from the politically impossible to the inevitable, never passing through the probable, here are ideas about how to collect them
The National Academy of Sciences finds critical transformers are the weak link in the electric grid and vulnerable to cyberattack
Why are star investors like Warren Buffet doing renewable power deals?
How carbon tax politics might make strange bedfellows, but not with the Koch Brothers
A German utility with coal-fired power plants profits with low lignite prices & cheap carbon emissions permits
A Bronx green jobs-training program claims some two-thirds of its graduates get hired to do what they trained for
Could widely distributed, local combined heat and power systems keep us and secure next time?
Increased field data collection over the last decade advance understanding of changing conditions in Antarctica
Germany's biggest utility blames surging renewable power and weak economies on its poor profits at natural gas-fueled power plants
Germany leads the way toward a low-carbon energy future, will others take up this task?
With the cost of pollution fixes, some 353 US coal-burning power plants face retirement because their power will cost more than natural gas and wind-powered plants
A proposed fix for excess carbon emissions permits did not stem price plunges
Arch anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist might be open to a carbon tax, under certain conditions
Call it climate disruption or weird weather, here's what it looks like
Will the surge of post-Sandy adoration translate into giving the MTA the funding it needs for its subways and buses?
What are the US implications of NOAA dropping El Nino predictions in favor of an emerging La Nina trend?
Three climate actions President Obama should start on now
World cities have much to learn from how Venice copes with chronic flooding
Save a tree while trying to save the planet by downloading an e-book about Germany's energy transformation for 99 cents
How benchmarking and disclosing building energy performance could create new market and value networks for urban real estate
A Rasmussen poll finds more Americans believe climate change is happening, but 38% cite planetary causes and 30% are still in denial, yet a Yale poll provides more encouraging numbers
The IEA lauds energy efficiency as giving the world an extra five years to avoid plunging off the climate cliff
By 2035, the IEA projects renewables could rival coal as the world's major energy supplier, but won't be able to control global heating
The fate of renewable power hangs on development and marketing grid-scale storage batteries
Contact Occupy Sandy instead of the Red Cross
The EIA projects fracking technology will make the US the world's biggest oil producer by 2017
Venice is a gem, but it's no model for a durable New York metro region. The time is now to make smart, effective plans
What are the best economy-boosting uses for the carbon tax revenues levied on the UK's biggest emitters?
Unlike New Zealand, Australia pledges with the EU to stick to Kyoto Treaty GHG goals
The ABC's of indoor insulation, basic to any high performance home
How did a natural system meant to soak up rainwater cope with Sandy's flooding?
Does politics explain the UK's shambolic renewable energy policy?
Could a carbon consumption tax be the key to throttling emissions globally?
Turkey is developing a 97 MW wind farm, with a national wind goal of 20,000 MW by 2023
The finger points at the climate-caused 8 inch sea-level rise in NY Harbor as the reason for Sandy's great destructiveness
New production methods could shrink energy-efficient LED costs and end the dominance of workplace fluorescent lights
Will speculation about Sandy's erosion of Manhattan real estate values lead to investment in resilience upgrades?
How New Orleans and Japanese cities converted Katrina and tsunami debris into biomass fuel
Hu Jintao, China's outgoing President, calls for drastic cuts in energy and natural resource use and pollution curbs
Although US tariffs on Chinese solar panels are in place, they may not work because some production takes place outside of China
Michigan voters reject an initiative requiring 25% of the state's electricity to come from renewable sources by 2025
San Francisco voters swamp a ballot proposal to dismantle its drinking water supply system
Scientists find an antibiotic-resistant microbe entering sewage treatment plants
Join the contest for spelling out the best ways to decarbonize the world's energy supply
Australia begins to put the emission trading pieces in place to launch its carbon trading market
Innovative heavy-duty circuit breakers can integrate more DC renewable power into the AC electric transmission grid
A new mixed income housing development in New Orleans provides residents low-cost rooftop solar power
While the odds are low for US action on climate change during Obama's second term, that is better than no odds at all
With Wall Street recently underwater and Main Street still deluged by Sandy, now could be the time to rewrite the nation's climate action memo
Recent research suggests cognitive views and political values may block Sandy's power to mobilize public action on climate change
Home heat still out after Sandy? Here's a list of daytime warming centers around the five boroughs
Plans by a French utility giant for a new nuclear plant in the UK could collapse over guaranteed power prices that are being called a nuclear industry subsidy
Don't expect a President Romney to adopt the smart growth and urban sustainability policies he had as Governor
Socked by Sandy, some lights will come in the Rockaways with mobile solar panels & batteries that store power for night time use
Will the blistering pace of new power demands from Beijing to rural China be chilled for lack of water and a changing climate?
High natural gas prices and mixed government signals could delay new UK power projects and lead to shortages
The vulnerability of metro NY metro assets and infrastructure and to wind, tide and water has been known for years
GDP, NDP and depreciation are economists' tools for measuring the cost of weird weather
Governor Cuomo warns utilities to get the lights back on or risk losing their state-issued franchises
Federal climate action slipped away after Katrina, will we act in the wake of Sandy?
iShacks springing up near Cape Town could ease the housing crisis in an energy efficient way
Good infrastructure news, NYC's drinking water is safe to drink and sewage treatment plants are processing 99% of their wastewater
Many of New York's oldest structures were built to last and came through the storm intact
Imagine the chit-chat at a post-Sandy dinner with Hizzoner, Governors Christie & Cuomo, and the President
Check out this crowd-sourcing tool for helping in the post-Sandy clean up
Time to consider making New York City safer with soft edges
The US solar industry job growth outpaces other sectors of the economy
"Still a climate change skeptic" fish in subway station asks. via @nydailynews h/t @nydnhammond cc: @bw @nypostiopinion twitter.com/azipaybarah/st…
Plans are underway for Iskandar, an eco-smart city of 3 million near Singapore
Pay close attention to make sense of what the UK government is up to on the wind power front
In this social media era, the Weather Channel is trying to redefine itself
New gadgets can put an end to pesky energy vampires
With nothing to replace the Kyoto Treaty, plunging carbon prices lead to the indefinite suspension of New Zealand's ETS
Ideas learned the hard way from airline disasters and other calamities for making cities more resilient in a climate-disturbed world
Fuel oil, pesticides and other pollutants spilled into New York Harbor due to Sandy flooding should not be overlooked
An economics look behind the headlines about scarcity of gas and other post-Sandy necessities
Cover of Bloomberg Businessweek says it all
Germany's biggest electric utility abandons development of new nuclear power in Finland, meaning more energy imports
India is glutted with renewable energy credits because electric utilities are failing to meet their targets
California might redo its Environmental Quality Review Act to ease the path for new development
How do scientists sort out temperature trends from data noise?
Who's still in the dark in the New York metro area and what mass transit is in operation
Why in New York more vulnerable to hurricane damage than Miami?
