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Courtesy of Planet Forward comes this video about how farming the wind has turned around Roscoe, Texas (and rural communities in many parts of the ‘wind belt’).

Roping the wind in Texas from Powering a Nation on Vimeo.
Farmer Cliff Etheredge provides his perspective on the community’s change with wind development.
It’s a 180-degree attitude change [...]

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Just over the weekend, my inbox was filled with a discussion attacking climate science with assertions that “none of the models predicted the current cooling period” and, therefore, the entire concept of Global Warming rests on very shaky grounds.
Sigh …
Those involved in that discussion have now received links to an excellent article by AP science [...]

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Being an EcoGeek is becoming ever more fashionable. And, increasingly, there are events where EcoGeek’s can gather in style.
Every two years, for two weeks, a village appears on the National Mall providing a window on possibilities for a sustainable future powered by the sun.
The Solar Decathlon is a biennial, ever-cool event, pitting colleges and universities [...]

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Shocklingly unreported by most of the nation’s media, easily 100 people collapsed outside Salt Lake City’s Gallivan Center.  Exact numbers are hard to come by,  but this tragic moment sends a signal of a much larger catastrophe that will kill millions and, without action, billions in the years to come.  The bodies on the ground [...]

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A Fish Out of Water struggles to survive, finding a path toward a safer environment. FishOutofWater is a thoughtful, engaged scientist, passionately struggling to help us find our way toward a prosperous, climate-friendly future. Here is a guest post laying out how, with just two renewable sources, the United States could power its way [...]

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My pencil broke … The library was closed … My alarm clock didn’t go off … Car had a flat tire … The dog ate my homework … Excuses. Excuses. Excuses.

Excuses …
When it comes to the fraudulent letters sent to members of Congress against clean energy action by Bonner & Associates on behalf of the [...]

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While the Cash for Clunkers (CARS Program) should be extended, we have to be clear here: this is an economic stimulus and jobs program which happens to have some energy security and environmental benefits.  Yet, the Obama Administration (Office of Management and Budget?) was the power behind the scenes in seeing that the funding stream [...]

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<img src=”http://www.energyconversation.org/sites/all/themes/energyco/images/ec_uncle_sam_t.gif” align=”left” />  This coming Monday evening, 13 July, The Energy Conversation will have a public session focused on geothermal energy, appropriately titled “Is American warming up to geothermal energy?“.  This US government sponsored lecture is a free event (okay, $10 for dinner) that occurs on a regular basis at the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel [...]

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Can we say better later than never?  Earlier today, the RES-Alliance for Jobs held a press conference announcing a broad alliance of businesses to fight for a serious Renewable Electricity Standard.
“This is the first time that we’ve had the renewable energy come together under one umbrella because we’re ready to go, now. “  Dr. Charles [...]

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Truly, this is one of the questions that should be on the table when considering Congressional (in)action re climate change and clean energy options.  Over the past decade, as US jobs flew out to other countries, with workers all too often spending their last months/weeks/days on the job training foreigners how to use equipment and [...]

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