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100% Green Energy is Possible & a Chinese Province Just Proved It

TeleSur | - - New clean schemes push the nation further forward as a leader in search for alternative technologies. Demonstrating that renewables are a viable option for the future, China’s Qinghai…

Green France: Macron bans Fracking and welcomes US renewables Scientists fleeing Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The French government wants to steal increasingly unemployed US green energy scientists, who are being systematically defunded by the Trump administration. After Trump…

In March for 1st Time, 10% of US Electricity came from Wind and Solar

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - I've been a booster of renewable energy for years and years. I can remember when readers would taunt me that only one percent…

Who needs Trump: State Policies driving huuje advances in Wind Power

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Anyone who is depressed about Trump's sabotage of action to halt climate change should take heart from a remarkable development in Kansas.. Governor…

Retraining Workers for Climate Action: How the Light Gets In

H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | - - Every now and then I re-visit these lines of the Canadian poet and songwriter, Leonard Cohen: Ring the bells that cannot ring Forget…

Wind Power and the quest for 100% Renewables in age of Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Are some major industrial countries only a decade or two from getting all their electricity from non-fossil fuel sources? Since it is the…

1 in 50 new Jobs in US is in Solar Energy, despite Trump

Bill Ritter, Jr. | (The Conversation) | On Tuesday, March 28, President Trump traveled to the Environmental Protection Agency to sign an executive order rolling back a number of climate-related regulations that…

“No new Coal Plants!” – European Energy Companies

Newsy |. (Video News Clip) | / The Tree | - - "Energy companies representing almost the entire European Union have promised not to build new coal power plants after 2020." Newsy:…

Can the Global Mining Industry go Green?

By Joseph Kirschke | (Next Billion) | - - In recent months, events across three continents showed how clean energy use by the mining industry, which consumes 11 percent of global energy,…

Climate Change: 5 Lessons the US Can Learn from Latin America

By Geovanny Vicente Romero | (TeleSur) | - - Taking a look at Latin America can provide some low-budget guidance on making a difference with less. During the week of March 12,…

Wind Power Juggernaut Really doing for 100K Workers what Trump only Promised

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Big news on the wind power front. First, it has emerged in the US as the number one renewable energy source, generating more…

All Dutch Electric Trains are Wind-Powered & other Advances Trump’s US will Miss out On

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Although Donald Trump has complained about America's failing airports, bridges and roads and expressed admiration for those of Dubai, his opposition to green…

How a Green Energy Revolution in Small-Town America will make Trump Irrelevant

By James and Deborah Fallows | (The Atlantic video Report) | - - "A move towards sustainable energy is often talked about as an issue for big government, especially during the 2016…

How China will run rings around Trump on Green Energy, and Win Big

By Matthew Kahn | (The Conversation) | - - In mid-November, while Americans were preoccupied with election returns, China sent some of its clearest signals yet that it will continue to pursue…

China’s Wind Co. Profits, share price soar by 60%: 2 Turbines an Hour being Installed

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The South China Post reports some incredible figures about the profitability China's wind energy companies. A new study by the Bank of China…

The Future is Here: Massive floating Wind Turbines off Scotland by 2017

The Economist | (Video Report) "It is not just utility companies racing to respond to the rise of renewable energy. Oil and gas giant Statoil is building on four decades of offshore…

5 Signs that Wind Power in the US is suddenly going Massive

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Iowa Utility Board has approved a $3 bn. MidAmerica wind farm project which will be the country's largest, due to come on…

Top 5 Ways Green Energy is already Helping American Workers

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - As we celebrate American workers (I prefer to honor workers today rather than the abstract "labor"), let's remember where their future lies. And…

Iowa could go 100% Green with Wind in only 14 years, w/ Few Birds Killed, Mr. Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Iowa gets 31% of its electricity from wind turbines, the highest percentage in the nation (though Texas generates more than twice as many…