Imagine if we had a way to create jobs, rebuild our economy, reduce our pollution and improve our national security. We do: By supporting clean energy in America.
Already, more Americans work in the clean energy industry than in the fossil fuel industry — and we’re just getting started. Unless we choose to give up and go backward, we’re on our way to powering our country with made-in-America energy that won’t run out, won’t pollute our environment and won’t harm our health. We need to continue to support clean energy and clean energy innovation in America.
Posted February 7, 2012 by Christina Angelides in Solving Global Warming
Just who is South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint working for? Last week, the Republican senator introduced legislation (S. 2064) that would terminate existing incentives for clean energy technologies. You’d think South Carolina’s senator would want to protect his state’s interests,...continued→
Posted February 6, 2012 by Anjali Jaiswal in Environmental Justice, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
The countdown to the June 2012 Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development picked up speed last week at the annual Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS). The DSDS, whose timely theme was “Protecting the Global Commons: 20 years post Rio,”...continued→
Posted February 2, 2012 by Greenlaw from NRDC China in Greening China
NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and green supply chain issues. This China Environmental News Alert is a weekly compilation...continued→
Posted February 1, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
How about a little good news for a change? Something strange happened after the failure of comprehensive climate and energy legislation in 2010. Projections of future carbon emissions went down. Part of that is due to the Great Recession of...continued→
Posted January 30, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Twenty-two high level representatives have just released their report – Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing—which sets out specific recommendations to “put sustainable development into practice and to mainstream it into economic policy as quickly as possible.” The...continued→
Posted January 30, 2012 by Michael Davidson in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
Following a stale round of Rio+20 negotiations last week, the long-awaited report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability released today provides the much-needed vision that has so far eluded negotiators. Rather than a bibliography of UN conference...continued→
Posted January 27, 2012 by Michael Davidson in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
Over the last three days here at the UN in New York City, I have heard a lot of criticisms of the “zero” draft outcome document for the June Rio+20 Earth Summit. Countries have passionately lambasted its lack of “vision”,...continued→
Posted January 26, 2012 by Pierre Bull in Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
What's the wait? New York needs to take the next step to invest in solar. Policies such as the New York State renewable portfolio standard (RPS) have done a lot to bring new renewables like wind and biomass into the...continued→
Posted January 26, 2012 by Christina Angelides in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
Among the national priorities highlighted in President Obama’s State of the Union speech, few garnered as strong a positive reaction from voters as his plan to reform our energy system and build the nation’s rapidly growing clean energy economy. As...continued→
Posted January 25, 2012 by Pierre Bull in Green Enterprise, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
President Obama confirmed his commitment to clean energy and to environmental and public health protections in his State of the Union Address last night. And he backed up his words toward advancing renewable energy in the U.S. with real, measurable...continued→
