SOLAR IMPULSE - World Alliance for Clean Technologies

AIRSHIPS  - SOLAR IMPULSE

"You might have been wondering: what’s next for Solar Impulse? Well less than four months after having completed the adventure of flying around the world with no fuel, we launched the World Alliance for Clean Technologies in Marrakech during COP22.
A freshly produced 90 minute French documentary called “Solar Impulse - L'impossible tour du monde” was premiered in Paris last Monday."
http://blog.solarimpulse.com/post/153529392775/solar-impulse-2-arrives-back-in-switzerland

Return of the *Solarimpulse* to Switzerland (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPqzqbWPVg

SOLAR - Chernobyl May Turn Into a Massive Solar Farm

Two Chinese solar companies are planning to build a solar power plant in the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chernobyl-may-turn-massive-solar-222242713.html

ECONOMICS - Thoughts on Buy Nothing Day - November 25, 2016

We must consume much, much less.

http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2016/11/Buy-nothing-web-crappy-736x736.jpg.662x0_q70_crop-scale.jpg
http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/thoughts-buy-nothing-day.html

SUSTAINABILITY - A Brief History

Sustainability isn’t a trend, it’s an ethic, and it can never become unfashionable, even if its language does. “In the end,” observed Baba Dioum in 1968, “we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lance-hosey/a-brief-history-of-sustai_b_12787800.html

WIND - Wind and solar energy projects new jobs to Minnesota

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Wind and solar energy projects could bring 5,000 new jobs to rural Minnesota

"Modeling shows that planned additions of wind and solar projects in the state will result in approximately $7.09 billion in direct investment, over 5,000 jobs related to construction alone and 3,987 megawatts of newly installed energy capacity.

http://www.solardaily.com/reports/Wind_and_solar_energy_projects_could_bring_5000_new_jobs_to_rural_Minnesota_999.html

WIND - Wind and solar will be the clear winners

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World Energy Outlook 2016: Wind and solar will be the clear winners

“We see clear winners for the next 25 years – natural gas but especially wind and solar – replacing the champion of the previous 25 years"

http://www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine/solar-news/current/2016/kw46/world-energy-outlook-2016-wind-and-solar-will-be-the-clear-winners.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook