Stimulus to Repower America
You spoke and Washington listened. With President Obama’s signature on economic recovery legislation yesterday, America made the largest investment in clean energy and green jobs in our history. Now we need to build on this momentum. I’ve recorded a special message to say thank you, and share our strategy going forward. Will you watch and [...]
Google To Help You Monitor Your Power Usage
Google unveiled the plans for PowerMeter. A program to help you monitor your power usage right from your iGoogle homepage. “Google PowerMeter, currently a prototype product, will allow you to see your own energy usage information and help you improve your efficiency in a variety of ways. The first way you’ll see this tool in [...]
Wind Powered Hosting
Data centers are what make the internet possible. A data center houses all the computer equipment necessary for you to visit a website, relay information as you surf the Internet, talk on your cell phone and store billions of websites themselves and a whole lot more. What does this have to do with the environment? [...]
Google’s Clean Energy by 2030
Google’s energy team is dicussing ways that we could reduce our fossil feul use by the year 2030. The team led by Jeffery Greenblatt has developed a proposal that would wean us off of coal and oil for electrical generation and reduces car dependence on oil by 40%. The Clean Energy 2030 proposal is to [...]
Ask ABC to Reconsider Running the We Campaign Ad
Did you notice the ads after last night’s presidential debate? ABC had Chevron. CBS had Exxon. CNN had the coal lobby. But you know what happened last week? ABC refused to run our Repower America ad — the ad that takes on this same oil and coal lobby. I sent a letter asking ABC to [...]
Heidi Fleiss to Open Eco-brothel for Women
We’ll file this one under ‘unexpected’. According to Elle, it seems Heidi Fleiss, legendary nineties madame is in the process of launching an eco-friendly brothel for women in Nevada. The site for her stud farm is a 60 acre plot of land near Pahrump where she just opened a laundromat called Dirty Laundry. Apparently she [...]
New ‘FatBox’ Device Produces Biodiesel from Solid Animal Fats
New ‘FatBox’ Device Produces Biodiesel from Solid Animal Fats submitted by EcoBlogs 37 days ago (via RenewableEnergyAccess.com) Fat may no longer be a negative thing, at least when it comes to producing biodiesel. FatBox, a device developed by Pacific Natural Energy (PNE) may make fat a valuable resource. It has the ability to transform fat [...]
