The Arizona Court of Appeals recently upheld a lower court decision rejecting a challenge by The Goldwater Institute over the Arizona Corporation Commission requirement that Arizona utilities source 15% of their electricity from alternative sources, such as solar power and wind power, by 2025. This was the fourth legal challenge by the Institute’s watchdog group, [...]
National Public Radio (NPR) aired a special report on California’s effort towards clean energy last week. Here is a quick summary of the five-day report. Day 1: Calif. Leads In Clean Energy, But Challenges Loom Ever since the creation of the first wind farm in the San Francisco area, California has been the leader of [...]
If you are one of the 59% of Americans who has moved away from the concept of a phone just being able to place calls, you have entered the app world, a time wasting world where that transforms your phone into an all purpose life saver.* But with so many apps to choose from now, [...]
One of environmentalists’ major concerns about adding solar farms in places such as the Mojave Desert is the destruction of land and disturbance of the natural habitat. But what if that land was already destroyed due to salt contamination from over-irrigation? Could these environmentalists bear to place a solar farm over this disturbed land? Right [...]
One would not expect green technology to be a focal point of the U.S. Department of Defense but lately, the military has been working with more and more green technology, for reasons other than what you’re probably accustomed to. As the Pentagon is forced to work on leaner and leaner budgets, they are looking for [...]
While I know this does not exactly qualify as fresh news, but as we wait and see what will happen with the cap and trade legislation in Congress, I thought it would be interesting to mention one of the measures that the federal government already has in place to promote energy efficiency. Back in October [...]
