Dreaming The Possible Dream

by admin on March 7, 2010

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES by Thomas L. Friedman. Published March 6, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/opinion/07friedman.html?ref=opinion
The thing I love most about America is that there’s always somebody who doesn’t get the word — somebody who doesn’t understand that in a Great Recession you’re supposed to hunker down, downsize and just hold on for dear life. I [...]

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The Newest Hybrid Model

by admin on March 5, 2010

SOURCE: NEW YORK TIMES
BY JAD MOUAWAD
In former swamplands teeming with otters and wild hogs, one of the nation’s biggest utilities is running an experiment in the future of renewable power.
Across 500 acres north of West Palm Beach, the FPL Group utility is assembling a life-size Erector Set of 190,000 shimmering mirrors [...]

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Tons of Machinery, Blowing in the Wind

March 5, 2010

Slideshow of GE’s 100-ton turbines being created…
SOURCE: NEW YORK TIMES
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/02/21/business/0221-BACKDROP_index.html

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Green Backlash: The Wind Turbine Controversy

March 5, 2010

Source: BobVila.com http://www.bobvila.com/HowTo_Library/Green_Backlash_The_Wind_Turbine_Controversy-Subject_Green_Building-A3923.html
As the nation rushes to add renewable energy to its power portfolio, a growing chorus of homeowners and others are expressing concerns about how industrial wind projects are affecting health, safety, lifestyle and property values.
Green marketing campaigns typically show rows of industrial wind turbines in remote windy locales. However, wind projects are increasingly [...]

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Federal Offshore Energy Plans Dwarf Cape Wind

January 30, 2010

Source: MARTHA’S VINEYARD GAZETTE http://mvgazette.com/article.php?24295

By MIKE SECCOMBE
Federal authorities plan to open up almost 4,000 square nautical miles of ocean near the Vineyard for potential wind power generation.
A draft Request for Interest (RFI) map presented to a renewable energy task force meeting of state, local and federal representatives on Wednesday identifies a vast arc of ocean, [...]

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Do green jobs cannibalize other jobs?

January 30, 2010

source: REUTERS http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2009/04/07/do-green-jobs-cannibalize-other-jobs/
President Obama has promised to help create millions of new green jobs, saying that doing so will spur the U.S. economy toward recovery — and has held out Spain as having “surged ahead” of the rest of the world by investing in renewable energy.
But a new study of Spain’s renewable energy initiatives [...]

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Wind power overpowers its neighbors

January 30, 2010

From Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel, morningsentinel.mainetoday.com January 24th, 2010
VINALHAVEN — Cheryl Lindgren was excited when the three wind turbines down the road began turning in November, but within days her excitement turned to disbelief. The sound at her house, a half-mile or so away, wasn’t what she had expected. As she sat [...]

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Expanding Use of Wind Power Feasible, but May Be Costly – NEW YORK TIMES

January 21, 2010

Expanding Use of Wind Power Feasible, but May Be Costly
NEW YORK TIMES
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By MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: January 20, 2010
WASHINGTON — Wind could replace coal and natural gas for 20 to 30 percent of the electricity used in the eastern two-thirds of the United States by 2024, according to a [...]

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The wind industry takes over Zapotecan lands

January 13, 2010

Recently, a press agency from the Netherlands (www.noticias.nl ) was filming a project called LA Ruta. The project’s intent is to report on the MillenniumGoals from the perspective of the civil society and social movements.
In this video, LA Ruta visited Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico to report on the conflict between the farmers and wind-energy firms.

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Fellow participant in Let Vineyarders Decide, it is time to act!

January 11, 2010

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission (MVC) is hosting an informational exchange meeting at the West Tisbury firehouse across from Conroy’s this Thursday, January 14th, at 5:30 pm. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss how to plan for the possibility of large-scale wind turbines on and around Dukes County. To read more, click [...]

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