October 22, 2008: A New Study Finds Income Inequality High In U.S.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development studied 30 nations and found that the United States trailed only Turkey and Mexico in income inequality.
A piece in The Wall Street Journal asserts that the upfront costs of clean energy investments make the industry exceptionally vulnerable to the credit crunch.
Despite the wide-ranging pessimism about the future of clean energy, one pundit asserts that “it is WAY too early to say how this economic crisis is going to affect the prospects for serious climate change action in the U.S.”
Bloomberg reports on why presidential candidate Barack Obama is a favorite among clean-tech venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.
Despite skepticism in the scientific community, Blacklight Power raised $60 million to research the “hydrino” - a physically altered atomic state said to be able to produce cheap, clean energy.
The New York Times reviewed the Frontline documentary, “Heat,” which reviews the recent history of government and business responses to global climate change and clean energy programs.
Local Green: Hawaii’s largest utility plans to generate 70 percent of the state’s energy through renewables by 2030. The Hawaiian Clean Energy Initiative includes converting fossil fuel generators to biofuels, bringing 1,100 megawatts of clean energy to the power grid, and building no new coal plants.
The Fourth Conference On Clean Energy will focus on New England’s clean energy economy when it is held in Boston on November 18-19.
The California State University system is partnering with SunEdison to bring solar power to 15 college campuses.
–Christopher Greenspan
Tags: Clean Energy, clean energy economy, clean energy investment, Clean-Tech, government response to climate change, Hawaii and renewable energy, Hawaii and renewables, hydrino, income inquality, OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Devleopment, Solar Power
October 29th, 2008 at 11:30 am
[...] A U.N. report released last week found that U.S. cities had inequality levels rivaling those in Africa. Last week, Apollo Digest pointed out a similarly-themed O.E.C.D. report. [...]