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President Obama: Restoring the Dream
by John Brian Shannon President Obama advertised that he would bring “Hope and Change” to the U.S.A. when he campaigned for president first time around and he did, in fact, bring about momentous...
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CO2 or Methane: Who do you Love?
by John Brian Shannon Greenhouse gas is a catch-all term used to describe a class of gases — either naturally-occurring or man-made (anthropogenic) which have a detrimental effect on the Earth’s...
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Canada’s First Off-Shore Wind Farm Set for British Columbia
By Adam Johnston — Cleantechnica.com Canada’s first off-shore wind farm is taking shape, which is set to boost British Columbia’s renewable energy image. The multiphase project, owned by the NaiKun...
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America: Why the High Unemployment?
by John Brian Shannon In 1970, of the 89,244 new cars and trucks sold in the U.S.A., 84.9% of them were built in North America, while only 15.1% of them were manufactured in other countries and shipped...
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Wind Power: Healthy and Growing!
by John Brian Shannon Wind power around the world is growing at an exponential rate. For example, China has now installed more wind turbines than any other country. China began 2011 with 41.5 gigawatts...
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Only in DC: The Cure for Range Anxiety
by John Brian Shannon Actually, charging stations for electric vehicles are popping up all over the place these days, not just in Washington, DC — and that’s a good thing! Ford Motor’s Mike Tinskey has...
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Energy & Climate: The regulatory climate is changing too!
Article by John Brian Shannon Images by Cleantechnica For several decades, U.S. environmental regulators have been the tall, silent type. These highly-educated people worked for the government, but...
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U.S. Fuel Subsidies Chart
Image courtesy of Cleantechnica.com Filed under: Economics Tagged: carbon capture, Carbon capture and storage, CCS, ethanol, fossil fuel, gas, nuclear, oil, renewables, solar, tax breaks, us fuel...
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How to Buy a Car and get Free Fuel
by John Brian Shannon What if you could buy a car and (except for the normal taxes, insurance, maintenance and parking stall fees, etc.) you could drive it around for free? What I’m talking about is...
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Short UN video about food-related water usage ‘ALL YOU CAN EAT’
by John Brian Shannon . Watch the video. Click here >> ALL YOU CAN EAT This is a one-minute United Nations video which demonstrates how much water it takes to produce the different foods that we...
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Royal Dutch Shell Drops Two ‘Bombs’ in One Week
by John Brian Shannon First came the announcement this week by Shell senior executives that oil extraction in the Arctic would be postponed for the second year in a row, and second is yesterday’s...
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Royal Dutch Shell Report Spells Big Changes for Energy
by John Brian Shannon Royal Dutch Shell has published a startling report in which it lays out it’s future view and it has detailed huge global implications for citizens, governments and the energy...
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DC SEU Wins EPA Sustained Excellence Award
EPA RECOGNIZES DC SEU AND NORTHEAST ENERGY EFFICIENCY INITIATIVE WITH 2013 ENERGY STAR® SUSTAINED EXCELLENCE AWARD The DC Sustainable Energy Utility (DC SEU) in partnership with Northeast Energy...
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Renewable Energy Hits the Roof
by John Brian Shannon Several major retailers with worldwide operations are busily installing solar panels on top of their ‘big-box’ retail stores and offices. Walmart, Walgreens, IKEA and others, are...
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America’s Updated Energy Strategy
by John Brian Shannon President Obama visited the Argonne National Laboratory today in Argonne, Illinois, to give a major speech on the future of American energy. A new, USD $2 billion dollar program...
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Why are Environmentalists excited about the Natural Gas boom?
by John Brian Shannon Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which is the cleanest fossil fuel of all? You guessed it! Natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel – and by significant margins, as data from the...
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Washington, DC government agencies to run 100% renewable energy
by John Brian Shannon The United States has tremendous wind resources both offshore and on land. In 2012, the total installed wind capacity in the United States reached 50,000 MW. That’s enough to...
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Post-Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Finished?
by John Brian Shannon Since the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown which was initiated by an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, some have wondered, “Is this the end of...
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Wind power surpasses Nuclear in China
The Chinese government has committed itself to producing 16% of its primary (electrical) energy from renewable sources by 2020 — UNEP | Photo credit: Barton Merle-Smith, Wind Currents Wind power...
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A Match made in Heaven: Solar power and Water desalination
by John Brian Shannon The nations of the Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf are blessed to have access to unfathomable amounts of sunlight and salt water. With growing populations and scarce water reserves,...
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