Solar
An Expiration Date For Our Current Energy Policy Model?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101978″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”184820″][vc_column_text] Most people understand the basics of supply and demand. The more people that want something, in this case energy, the more it will cost. Likewise, the less of it there is, the more it will cost. Unfortunately, the nation’s primary fuel sources suffer from both dwindling supply and skyrocketing demand.…
Read MoreSolar Energy Market Role Reversal
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101980″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”149755″][vc_column_text] Solar Energy Market While the United States ramps up oil and gas extraction and production, aiming to be a net exporter of fossil fuels by 2030, the oil-soaked sheikhdom of Saudi Arabia, and other regional powers, are pursuing a complete role reversal by pushing aggressively into the solar energy market. Sunset of…
Read MoreThere Goes The Neighborhood
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101982″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”943042″][vc_column_text] As the nation’s oil sector heats up, thanks to innovations in extraction technology and a glut of domestic oil, flaws in an inherently destructive industry will continue to sow destruction upon the environment and even on communities of ordinary Americans across the nation. Oil spills and other manmade disasters will…
Read MoreWorld Hunger Relief Harvests Solar Power with Green Mountain Energy Sun Club
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101984″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”157358″][vc_column_text] Solar array donation helps Waco farm grow more sustainably Waco, TX – Non-profit farmland and sustainable agriculture training organization, World Hunger Relief (https://worldhungerrelief.org/), harvested a new crop of renewable energy with the help of one crucial resource: the sun. The farm celebrated a brand new solar array donated by the Green Mountain…
Read MoreWhy Texans Should Get Excited About Solar Energy
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101986″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”902581″][vc_column_text] Why citizens of the Lone Star State, despite a long and prosperous marriage to Big Oil, ought to learn to love solar energy. The BIG State Should Get Excited About Solar Energy Texans love to point out that everything is bigger and better in Texas. And this is true to a great degree.…
Read MoreNetting Some Zeros: Net-zero
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101988″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”468649″][vc_column_text] How investing in a net-zero home could effectively eliminate those pesky energy bills. There are only a few places we really care to see some zeros – the first, on our paycheck after a positive integer; the second, under the “turnovers committed” column for our favorite basketball team; and lastly,…
Read MoreSeeing Green in the Future of Energy
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101991″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”359293″][vc_column_text] What our energy past and present can tell us about our energy future, and the role renewables will have to play in that future. Here’s a hint: a big one. The Story Thus Far It began with agriculture. The Neolithic Revolution ushered in the first flowering of human civilization, the beginnings of…
Read MoreClimate Change: A Collective Failure of Human Empathy?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101993″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”974765″][vc_column_text] Why the discussion of global warming needs to add an expanded moral dimension that can help inform economic and political change. The Million Dollar Question: Why Don’t People Care About Climate Change? If an individual were offered one million dollars in cash, would they take it? In a theoretical world…
Read More$30,000 donated to World Hunger Relief for solar array installation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101999″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”189689″][vc_column_text] Green Mountain EnergyTM Sun ClubTM Helps Waco Farm Promote Sustainable Agriculture Around the World – World Hunger Relief $30,000 donated to World Hunger Relief for solar array installation Waco, TX – The Green Mountain Energy™ Sun Club™ is planting a new source of solar energy at World Hunger Relief with…
Read MoreSmart Grids, Smart Cars, Smart Meters, Smart…Windows?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”102004″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”123807″][vc_column_text] There are many innovations being produced by the cleantech sector every day – windows are one of them! Technology and sustainability are inherently synergistic. Let the New Green Economy flourish! Bigger, Better, Faster, Smarter Everything today is “smart”. If it doesn’t streamline daily activities, automate chores, or help us connect,…
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