About Urban Green Energy With installations in approximately 60 countries, including several government agencies and Fortune 100 companies, UGE is changing the face of distributed renewable energy generation. UGE’s goal is to put users in control of their energy source, and is doing so by designing and manufacturing more versatile wind turbines and hybrid wind/solar [...]
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Urban Green Energy – The Power to Dream
Posted by admin on January 25th, 2012
Department of Energy Loses Billions of Taxpayer Dollars in Bad Loans to Green Energy Companies
Posted by admin on January 19th, 2012
CBS Early Show covers the loss of billions of taxpayer dollars in Department of Energy loans to failed ‘green energy’ companies across the United States. CBS News – January 13, 2012
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Tags: Beacon Power, billions of dollars, CBS News, clean energy, Darrell Issa, department of energy, Early Show, Energy and Commerce, Energy loans, government investment, green energy, Harry Reid, high risk, House Oversight Committee, Nobel Prize, Oversight and Reform, Secretary Chu, Sharyl Attkisson, Solyndra company, taxpayer dollars 
1 Comment »Extreme Green
Posted by admin on January 11th, 2012
Take a tour through BC’s most energy-efficient home.
Posted in DIY Green Energy Videos Tags: CBC, cbctv, energy efficient, environmentally friendly, green energy 1 Comment »Columbia grads design solar-pillow lights for global village
Posted by admin on January 8th, 2012
www.3tlink.info LuminAID is actually an inflatable plastic pillow with a thin solar panel and two coin cell batteries. The package can be inflated and deflated down to where it can be packed completely flat. Photovoltaic film is laminated to polyethelenevinyl acetate plastic. The LuminAID device inflates to produce a quality of light similar to a [...]
The Stream – The Palestinian Green Energy Movement
Posted by admin on January 5th, 2012
Could geothermal power give Palestinians more autonomy? The Stream talks to Palestinian-Canadian engineer Khaled Sabawi.
Designing North America’s first offshore wind farm
Posted by admin on December 11th, 2011
Professor Habib Dagher is building the first offshore wind farm in North America that will float off the coast of Maine – a state that some consider to be the Saudi Arabia of wind power. Test models have performed well in the laboratory, but the farm’s real turbines will need to stand up to the [...]
For Wind Energy\’s Future, Researchers Look High in the Sky
Posted by admin on December 5th, 2011
The next major innovation in wind power might not involve big, white turbines dotting the countryside. KQED QUEST reports on research being done on \”tethered airfoils\” that could capture wind energy more efficiently that earthbound turbines. This report is part of the NewsHour\’s Connect series of quality public media reporting.
Posted in Wind Power News Tags: green energy, hour, kqed, newshour connect, pbs newshour, pbsnews, public media, quest, research, tethered airfoils, turbines, wind, Wind Energy, wind power No Comments »Obama’s Green Giveaway
Posted by admin on December 1st, 2011
President Obama spent 5 million of taxpayer stimulus money to prop up Solyndra, a solar panel company run by his political campaign contributors. Even though Department of Energy and White House staffers warned that the company’s business model would never work, the loan was rushed out the door anyway. Now that Solyndra has gone belly [...]
Posted in DIY Green Energy Videos Tags: Afor, americans for prosperity, green energy, Obama, Solyndra 25 Comments »Beyond Witness: New Approaches to Crisis Photography (James Whitlow Delano)
Posted by admin on November 11th, 2011
pulitzercenter.org Pulitzer Center photographer James Whitlow Delano shares images from his project “Malaysia: How “Green” Bio-Fuels are Destroying the Little People of the Rainforest” (bit.ly We live in an era saturated with images of all kinds clamoring for our attention. Combine this with constantly shrinking space for serious, thought-provoking photography on complex issues, and a [...]
Posted in DIY Green Energy Videos Tags: Batek Negrito, biofuel, Crisis Photography, Deforestation, environment, fotodc, fotoweek DC, George Washington SMPA, green energy, James Whitlow Delano, Jon Sawyer, Logging, Malaysia, Malaysia Indigenous People, New Ways to Photograph, Palm Oil Plantation, Penan, Photography Discussion, Photography Tips, Photojournalism, Pulitzer Center, Rainforest No Comments »Solar Tariffs set to be cut
Posted by admin on October 30th, 2011
The Energy Minister Greg Barker told a meeting of solar industry chiefs that the subsidised returns on renewable generation – funded from consumer energy bills – were “unsustainable”.
Posted in DIY Green Energy Videos Tags: channel 4 news, green energy, solar power, tariffs No Comments »
