June 13, 2008: Dawning of the Clean Energy Age
Clean Energy Round Up: Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and GM are set to open a hydrogen fueling station in Los Angeles.
PG&E announced that it plans to begin using some new solar and biofuel energy sources. The contracted energy, acquired from San Joaquin Solar LLC, would power 78,000 homes. Plus: Triplepundit looks at how California’s San Joaquin Valley is becoming a solar belt.
Over at Yale Environment 360, Denis Hayes writes that a cap-and-trade system is not the answer to our current carbon problems and that an entirely new energy strategy must be adopted.
As noted here last week, Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) introduced his iCAP legislation just before the Senate began its failed debate on the Lieberman-Warner climate bill. Below is a Center For American Progress video of Markey discussing his proposal.
Clint Wilder discusses the emerging clean energy age and the opportunity it presents for us to create a new “Greatest Generation.”
In response to a recent San Francisco Controller’s report that asserts green building would hurt the local economy, an op-ed from the U.S. Green Building Council argues (citing Davis Langdon’s 2007 study) that in the long run, green building actually reduces costs, and that cities and developers should look at green building as an investment. Plus: Treehugger looks at a very good dumb green building.
Grist takes a look at the Presidential Climate Action Project.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged G8 nations to back a plan that would allocate up to $10 billion to help developing countries fight global warming.
Business of Green looks at the carbon footprint of the computer age.
PG&E says it will invest billions to create an infrastructure to support plug-in hybrid vehicles and Energy Smart takes a look at the Google/Brookings Institute conference Plug-In Electric Vehicles 2008: What role for Washington?
Cities that have been promoting cycling see a pay-off as gas prices soar.
–Christopher Greenspan
Tags: Bicycling, Biofuels, Clean Energy, Green Buildings, iCAP, Plug-In Vehicles