CLIMATE - 10 Key Clean Energy Statements From Obama's Climate Speech
Obama spent a long time (rightfully so) setting the stage in his climate and energy speech by discussing the threats of global warming and climate change. But, on a hot and sunny summer day in DC, Obama also trumpeted a strong plan to use more clean energy. Here were 10 of his key statements about clean energy (imho):US just doubled solar & wind electricity: "Over the past 4 years, we've doubled the electricity we generate from zero-carb .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/26/10-key-clean-energy-stat
CLIMATE - 8 Images to Understand the Drought in the Southwest
In states like Missouri, last summer's drought was downright scary. Farmers saw their corn shrivel in the fields, ranchers ran out of feed for their cattle, and commerce on the Mississippi River slowed to a crawl, as barges struggled to avoid newly exposed rocks on the low-flowing river. But this spring brought relief. And now, after one of the wettest springs on record, life will return to a different sort of normal for many Midwestern farmers, ...
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/8-images-to-understand-th
CLIMATE - All-Time Heat Records Broken in . . . Alaska?!
A massive dome of high pressure, sometimes referred to as a "heat dome," has set up shop over Alaska, bringing all-time record temperatures just a few weeks after parts of the state had a record cold start to spring. In some cases, towns in Alaska were warmer on Monday and Tuesday than most locations in the lower 48 states. Forecast temperature anomalies on June 19 from the GFS computer model. Click image to enl ...
CLIMATE - Heat Wave May Threaten World's Hottest Temp. Record
A brutal and potentially historic heat wave is in store for the West as parts of Nevada, Arizona and California may get dangerously hot temperatures this weekend and into next week. In fact, by the end of the heat wave, we may see a record tied or broken for the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth. The furnace-like heat is coming courtesy of a "stuck" weather pattern that is setting up across the U.S. and Canada. By early next week, the j ...
CLIMATE - Joe Romm On Obama's Climate Speech (+ Video & Transcript Of Obama's Speech)
Dr Joe Romm is a leading voice on climate and energy policy and politics issues. As his Climate Progress bio notes, under President Bill Clinton, Dr Romm was "acting assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy in 1997, where he oversaw $1 billion in R&D, demonstration, and deployment of low-carbon technology." And, very notably, Dr Romm has been a leading critic of President Obama on climate change matters. S .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/26/joe-romm-on-obamas-clima
CLIMATE - President Obama proposes new climate change plan. (VIDEO)
Today, President Obama announced his new climate change plan, which includes a proposal to establish new rules for cutting carbon pollution from existing power plants. Read the plan and watch the speech here ...
CLIMATE - Record 2012 Greenland Melt Challenges Climate Models
A weather pattern that may have become more common in recent years was largely responsible for causing last summer's record melt in Greenland, according to a new study. The research, published this week in the International Journal of Climatology, found that a giant protective dome of high pressure established itself above Greenland throughout the summer of 2012, leading to above-average temperatures and more abundant sunshine than in a typical ...
CLIMATE - U.S. Airports Face Increasing Threat From Rising Seas
When Hurricane Sandy struck New York City on October 29, 2012, the dark waters of Flushing Bay poured over the edges of LaGuardia Airport, flooding parts of the facility's 7,000-foot long east-west runway, and damaging lighting and navigation systems. The floodwaters created an eerie image of jetways ending in water, as if they had been converted into boat ramps. This was not the first time that LaGuardia suffered major flooding during a storm, ...
EARTH - "With six feet of sea-level rise, South Florida is toast."
Throughout Earth's history, the shape of the continents has changed dramatically. With the planet's temperatures rising, we can expect to see some of these geological changes in our lifetimes - especially when it comes to low-lying areas like Florida. Here's what might be in store for that state.Jeff Goodell has a fascinating article over at Rolling Stone about what will happen to Miami over the next 30 years as storm surges get higher and sea le ...
EARTH - A view of Earth that'll make you go whoa
From ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano comes an absolutely gorgeous view of our planet from space.Parmitano captured this view of a cloud-covered Earth yesterday from the International Space Station. He arrived aboard humanity's orbital outpost back in May, as a member of Expedition 36. He's been tweeting photos from low-Earth orbit ever since - follow him on Twitter for regular updates
ENERGY - 100% Renewable Energy And Beyond!
While many countries still discuss whether or not a 100% renewable energy system - or "just" a 100% renewable electricity supply - is even theoretically possible, Germans seem no longer bothered by such unscientific doubts. To make matters "worse," some of them (including myself) are even convinced that a transition to a 100% renewable energy system can and should be accomplished within only a few decades' time.Some people might find this di .. ...
ENERGY - Breakthrough NREL Lab Could Solve Renewables-Grid Integration Problems
Grid integration is the million-dollar question for clean energy - as renewables, electric vehicles, and the smart grid scale up, how will they impact reliability?ESIF exterior rendering via NRELWell, we now have a million-dollar answer from the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). NREL has launched the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF), a revolutionary research facility dedicated solely to researching .. ...
ENERGY - Top Solar Power Countries Per Capita & Per GDP (CleanTechnica Exclusive)
Following up on my top solar power state rankings, below are rankings of the top solar power countries per capita and per GDP. These solar power by country rankings are key to seeing who the solar power leaders are in relative terms. It's great that giant countries like the US and China are investing in solar, but how do their investments really compare when we compare to country populations and GDP? That's the important question - that is, .. ...
ENERGY - Why Obama's Plan To Accelerate Permitting For Renewable Energy Is A Big Deal
President Obama is expected to make commitments for streamlining the permitting process for renewable energy projects on federal land during his talk at Georgetown University today ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2013/06/25/why-o
ENERGY - Will Europe Heed To Calls For 100% Renewable Energy Target For 2050?
European legislators have been urged to set a 100% renewable energy target for 2050 by the Global Alliance for 100% Renewable Energy. The Alliance, launched in Europe recently, criticised the EU legislators for not setting aggressive long-term renewable energy targets.Middelgruden Offshore Wind Farm in DenmarkCredit: United Nations Photo | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Alliance members, which include World Future Council, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar .. ...
HOMES - 3 tents and a shed create a beautiful, luxury home
These temporary dwellings in Sonoma County became a beautiful, and quite luxurious, home ...
HOMES - In San Jose, Buy A House, Get A Tesla
Real estate agents are always thinking up novel ways to sell homes, throwing brunches, cocktail parties, and offering interior design services. Now, a realtor in San Jose is offering a Tesla Model S to the person who buys a $1.35 million home ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michelinemaynard/2013/06/25/in-s
HOMES - Passive House, Passivhaus, what's in a name?
We have been asking that question for a while and it keeps coming up ...
MOVIES - How Our Visions of Virtual Reality Have Changed in the Past 40 Years
The other day, Second Life celebrated its 10-year anniversary. But long before that venerable virtual world came into existence, we were dreaming up images of virtual reality and cyberspace.Top image: Tron vs. Tron LegacyIt seems like there are a few basic ways to represent "cyberspace" and virtual reality. You can have basic reality, with the occasional glitches or incongruities. You can create a surreal dreamscape that is clearly not ...
SCIENCE - Rich, educated westerners could be skewing social science studies
The vast majority of psychological studies recruit test subjects who are Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic - or "WEIRD." Which is... well, weird, given that these people represent a very small segment of the global human population, from a cultural standpoint.You might expect culture to have very little impact on the results of a psychological study. If you assume that psychology is informed primarily by biological ...
SOLAR - Top Solar Power States Per Capita (Updated) vs Top Solar Policy Leaders (CleanTechnica Exclusive)
Last year, I put together rankings of the top solar power countries per capita, per GDP, and per TWh of electricity production. In January, I then created rankings of the top solar power states per capita and followed those up with rankings of the top solar power states per capita vs the top solar power countries per capita. Check out those previous rankings and some similar wind power rankings via the links on the bottom of this page.Recent .. ...
SPACE - How to detect massive alien spaceships powered by stars
Some visionaries speculate that extraterrestrial civilizations may be capable of using the energy extracted from their suns to power planet-sized spaceships. A professor from the University of Edinburgh says he knows how we might be able to find such objects. Top image: Julian-Faylona.In 1948, astronomer Fred Zwicky, the esteemed co-discoverer of dark matter, speculated that "fusion jets" could be used by a future civilization to navigate our sun ...
SPACE - What if the moon was replaced by planets from our solar system?
Writer and artist Ron Miller wanted to see what it would look like if the Earth's moon was replaced by other planets from our solar system ...
URBAN - Another reason not to build glass towers: They are not resilient
Superstorm Sandy and the Alberta floods demonstrate the need to design buildings that keep the heat in or out when the power fails ...
URBAN - Beautiful Churches That Have Been Converted into Secular Buildings
What happens to churches whose religious residents have left? Often, they become a bit more secular. Here are some of the most gorgeous and surprising architectural afterlives for these houses of worship.St. Jakobus Church, by Zecc Architects, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2007-2009(via ZECC)A Selexyz bookstore from a 700-year-old Dominican Church, by Merkx + Girod Architects, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2007(via Merkx + Girod and OpenBuildings)Bonney Aven ...
URBAN - Citylab Design Studio Unveils Bamboo Lenggong Valley Visitor Center for Malysia
Citylab Design Studio just unveiled their winning proposal for an archaeological visitor centre in Lenggong Valley, Malaysia - the UNESCO World Heritage Site where the skeleton of the 10,000-year-old Perak Man was found (among other artifacts dated from the Paleolithic era to the Bronze Age). The visitor center will be made from bamboo, which can be grown and cultivated on-site, and it will reintroduce heritage tropical forest at the palm oil est ...
URBAN - Los Angeles' Alameda Square to be Transformed Into One of the Nation's Largest Creative Campuses
Built in 1918, Los Angeles' Alameda Square is one of the nation's largest historic industrial centers. Creative Space, an integrated development and marketing firm, is in the process of upgrading and turning the largely unused space into the country's largest creative campus focusing on fashion, tech and creative startups. Renowned architect Joey Shimoda (TOMS Shoes) and branding expert Mathew Foster (Ace Hotels) are contributing with modern desi ...
URBAN - Master of Light: Danish Architect Henning Larsen Dies at Age 87
Danish architect and founder of self-titled firm Henning Larsen Architects has died at his home in Copenhagen at the age of 87. Known as the "master of light", Henning Larsen founded his architecture firm in 1959, and over the course of a long career oversaw a versatile array of projects including the luminous Harpa Concert Hall in Island, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the Malmo City Library in Sweden.Read ...
URBAN - Naturally Ventilated YAK01 Home Keeps its Cool in Thailand's Tropical Heat
Read the rest of Naturally Ventilated YAK01 Home Keeps its Cool in Thailand's Tropical HeatPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: Air quality, Architecture, Ayutt and Associates Design, cool, cross-ventilation, Daylighting, glass, L-shaped, modern home, natural light, Thailand, YAK0 .. ...
WATER - As Calgary Floods, Scientists Warn of Rising Risks
The normally tame Bow and Elbow Rivers that course their way through downtown Calgary, Alberta, have taken over the city, transforming Canada's fourth-largest city into North America's Venice. A slow-moving storm system, coming on top of an unusually wet spring, has produced massive flooding across southern Alberta, prompting tens of thousands to hastily evacuate sections of Calgary, and producing surreal images of the city's landmar ...
WATER - California's Snow Loss to Hit Winter Sports, Water Supply
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network LONDON - By mid-century, the snow-capped mountains of Southern California will be a lot less snowy, according to a new study from the University of California Los Angeles. The mountains beyond Pasadena, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Venice Beach and other iconic addresses will have 30 to 40 percent less snow on top and none at all at lower elevations. And by 2100, snowfall could be reduced to about a third of i ...
WIND - Redesigning The Electricity Market For Wind And Solar
This article first appeared on RenewEconomyLate last year, RenewEconomy wrote an analysis entitled the energy markets are broken. We were pilloried by some for exaggeration and being overly dramatic. But we simply drew on insight from the experts, and now they are quite open about the problem: the world's energy markets do need to be redesigned, otherwise they cannot cope with the impact of wind and solar.The International Energy Agency, in .. ...
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