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The Next Decade: Renewable Energy
By Shermakaye Bass
Green Right Now
The clock has just struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, 2020, and your rooftop cocktail party is in full swing. An urban garden, with potted evergreens and fruit trees, carpets the top of your downtown apartment building. The structure itself is vintage – a 1960’s brownstone that’s been retrofitted, by city-wide mandate. It operates on the new multi-source national electrical grid, which is supplied by wind, solar, geothermal power, as well as fossil fuels whose emissions are trapped underground.
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Tags: · 2010, 2020, Al Gore, Alan Nogee, American Wind Energy Association, clean energy future, Department of Energy, Elliot Nagin, Evaluating the Feasibility of a Large Scale Wind, future energy sources, Geothermal Energy Association, Geothermal Energy Expo, geothermal power, Mark Z. Jaconson, reducing carbon emissions, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy Industries Association, Solar Power, Sopogy, Union of Concerned Scientists, Water and Sun Energy Infrastructure, Wind Power
Copenhagen Notes: The glass half full view
Thursday, Dec. 17
Hillary breaks through the chatter
Amid the cacophony in Copenhagen, a bright spot.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke to a packed press conference, pledging that the U.S. would help raise $100 billion a year by 2020 in aid to developing nations to mitigate climate change effects.
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Her words, despite the surrounding maelstrom of discontented protesters, developing nations worried about being marginalized and others who’ve declared the talks either stalled or in chaos, could help bring clarity as the historic summit lurches toward a close on Friday.
The pledge, which Clinton said would come from a mix of public and private money, including funds raised on the carbon market, speaks to both those negotiating on behalf of the other leading nations who want to see the U.S. put real money on the table , and to those in developing nations, many of whom doubt that the rich nations have the political will to put up a strong and well-funded fight against climate change.
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Tags: · #climatechange, #Cop, Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, ask about climate change negotiations, Copenhagen, Copenhagen climate negotiations, Copenhagen week two, Hillary Clinton, Kenya, Maldives, Nepal, Oxfam International, Oxfam video updates, Post Carbon Institute, Sen. John Kerry, TckTckTck, town hall meeting, Tuvalu, You Tube
California teen starts Kids vs. Global Warming group
By Harriet Blake
Green Right Now
At a time when most 15-year-olds are thinking about sports, learning to drive and dating, Alec Loorz is trying to stop global warming.
The Ventura, California teen is the creator of Kids vs. Global Warming, a non-profit group dedicated to getting youth involved in the fight against global warming. “As young [...]
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Tags: · Al Gore, Alec Loorz, Alliance for Climate Education, Climate Change, Copenhagen, global warming, Inconvenient Truth, Kids vs. Global Warming, United Nations Climate Change Conference
Clinton (Bill), Solis, Villaraigosa to join Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas
From Green Right Now Reports
As the economy shows early signs of picking back up, commentators are abuzz about whether the revival will be a “job less” recovery.
Green advocates hope the recovery with come not just with jobs, but with new employment in clean energy, alternative power and other green industries.
Green jobs will be back atop the agenda at the Clean Energy Summit 2.0 next Monday in Las Vegas. The second annual summit, again hosted by US Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and the Center for American Progress Action Fund has attracted a long list of dignitaries and green leaders.
Summit leaders announced today that former President Bill Clinton will attend, along with Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Others already on the list of those expected:
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Tags: · Al Gore, Antonio Villaraigosa, Bill Clinton, Clean Energy Summit, Harry Reid, Hilda Solis, Steven Chu
Buy Solstice sunglasses on the solstice to benefit Climate Project
From Green Right Now Reports:
As the days get longer and hotter, we’re heading for the summer solstice here north of the equator, marking the official start of summer on June 21. SOLSTICE Sunglass Boutiques will be celebrating with a benefit for The Climate Project, by donating 10 percent of all their sunglasses sales at U.S. SOLTICE Sunglass Boutiques on the solstice (Sunday).
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Tags: · Al Gore, Climate Change, climate crisis, Solstice Sunglass Boutique, summer, The Climate Project
Gore announces his next book: ‘Our Choice’
March 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment
From Green Right Now Reports
Former vice president and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore announced that his next book, Our Choice, will tackle solutions to global warming. The book, which picks up on the themes of his previous book An Inconvenient Truth, will be published Nov. 3 by Rodale.
 Since the publication of the New York Times bestseller An Inconvenient Truth and the release of the Academy Award-winning film of the same title, Mr. Gore has led dozens of “Solutions Summits” with top scientists, engineers and policy experts to examine possible solutions to the climate crisis. Our Choice reflects the thinking that developed through those summits, as well as other independent research. Rodale executives say the book will argue that “the bold choices necessary to save the earth’s climate should also be the foundations of policies worldwide to create new jobs and stimulate sustainable economic progress.”
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Tags: · Al Gore, Climate Change, global warming, Our Choice
Energy conference: no time to wait on smart grid
By John DeFore
Green Right Now
A high-powered conference on the future of energy in America was held Monday in Washington; while it produced some consensus about the foundation necessary to meet future needs, it suggested there might be conflicts ahead in getting there.
Attendees, who ranged from former president Bill Clinton to officials at state utilities, heard plenty about the necessity of a new “smart grid” capable of shuttling electricity cross-country from renewable sources like wind and solar farms to the high-density cities that need the juice.
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Tags: · Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Electricity, Harry Reid, National Clean Energy Project, smart grid, Steven Chu, T.Boone Pickens
Gore’s Call To Be Carbon-Free — Clear and Historic
By John DeFore
It must be a bittersweet moment to be Darrell Hammond.
Every talk Al Gore gives, after all, continues to prove the Saturday Night Live veteran’s brilliance at honing in on the speech patterns of public figures; if Gore can’t tweak his style after years of mockery, then clearly Hammond caught something elemental.
But in [...]
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Tags: · Al Gore, Alternative Energy, We campaign
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