Architecture
Clipper Windpower to build world's largest turbine
Carpinteria, Calif.-based Clipper Windpower (LSE AIM: CWP) announced today that it plans to develop a 7.5 megawatt offshore turbine, putting it at the top of the list for turbine power, both on and offshore.
Solar-Powered Homes Outselling Weak Market
In California, Demand Is High For Solar Energy, While Overall Housing Market Languishes
Evidence is coming in lending further wait to TDG’s predictions back in June: while the nation’s housing market continues to struggle, green building features may provide sellers with a leg up over competition. “Those builders are seeing that they’ll get more buyers coming to their developments when they have solar. They sell like hot cakes,” Bernadette del Chiaro, an energy specialist at the advocacy group Environment California, told the Los Angeles Times.
Minnesota Form Nation’s Largest Community Owned Wind Project
Minnesota - The 300 MW High Country Energy wind farm will be located in Minnesota’s eastern Dodge and western Olmsted counties. High Country Energy, LLC was formed by National Wind in partnership with seven members of the community: Barry Rogne, Bryant Hokeness, Dan Hoffman, Eric Lee, Ken Binkley, Kevin Green and Larry Larson.
Homeowners Seek Group Discounts On Solar Energy
By Pooling Resources, Californians Are Leveraging Buying Power To Lower The Cost Of Solar Panels
It’s basic capitalism: the more you buy, the cheaper your price per unit. It is this very simple economic guiding principal that has allowed giant big box retailers, distributors and other megacorporations to enjoy enormous profits and buying power, from Wal-Mart to HMOs to Standard Oil. Why not use some of that bargaining leverage for good, argues an editorial in the Marin Independent Journal.
A village to call their own
A sense of community and a desire to step lightly on the earth are making ecovillages increasingly popular, writes Nick Galvin.
Judith and Rod Cook decided to preserve their island of greenery.
For more than 50 years, Judith and Rod Cook have lived on their two-hectare block of land in the middle of Winston Hills, raising cattle, goats, turkeys, ducks - and three children.
Over that time they have watched suburbia gradually encroach on their hilltop retreat, ultimately leaving them an island of green amid the cars, bitumen and brick-and-tile homes.
Energy giants reveal nuclear plans in face of rising public disapproval
By Terri Judd www.independent.co.uk
Published: 10 September 2007
One of the four companies hoping to build new nuclear power plants in Britain unveiled its proposals for public scrutiny today as it was revealed that more than 90 per cent of people are worried about creating more nuclear waste.
As the energy giant EDF and nuclear specialists Areva launched their proposals, the Government is in the middle of a wider consultation on whether to build such power stations to help meet Britain's future energy needs.
Big Houses Are Not Green: America's McMansion Problem
By Stan Cox, www.AlterNet.com
The recent mansion boom produced millions of energy-wasting homes with thousands of square feet that Americans don't need -- not the behavior of a society that's thinking about a sustainable future.
In Los Gatos, Calif., controversy has raged this summer over the city planning commission’s approval of a proposed hillside home that will occupy a whopping 3,600 square feet – and that's just the basement. Atop that walkout basement will be 5,500 more square feet worth of house.
Toronto turns to lake water for air conditioning
Cold water drawn from Lake Ontario cools buildings and provides big energy savings.
By Fred Langan
Toronto - The Toronto Dominion Centre is the most distinctive set of office towers in the city's financial district. Three of the five black buildings were designed by Mies van der Rohe and built in the late 1960s. So was their air conditioning.
