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London fire stations lower carbon emissions
Figures released today show that carbon emissions have plummeted by as much as 44 per cent and energy bills will be cut by around £50,000 a year at ten fire stations involved in the Mayor of London’s RE:FIT programme. The completed stations are now saving 242 tonnes of CO2 per year - enough to fill the Sydney Opera House five times over.
Click here for full storyFederal officials are trying to secure $400,000 for the city of Reedsport. They say the funding will increase the likelihood that proposed wave energy projects will bring jobs to the South Coast by next year. Energy developers and government officials hope demand for wave-generated electricity will make Oregon’s coast home to a new industry.
Click here for full storyChina, facing the risk of embarrassment if it misses a looming environmental deadline, has ordered thousands of companies to close high-polluting plants as its leadership vies to retool economic growth.
Click here for full storyIndependent MP Rob Oakeshott says an emissions trading scheme should be a key policy of any government he and the other crossbenchers will help to form.
Click here for full storyAustralia has plans to build the biggest wind farm in the southern hemisphere by 2013, part of its scramble to fight climate change and harness its abundance of clean energy sources — wind, solar, waves, geothermal energy and bioenergy.
Click here for full storyAustralia plans to build the southern hemisphere's biggest wind farm by 2013 as it scrambles to harness its abundance of clean energy sources, such as wind, solar, waves, geothermal and bioenergy, and fight climate change.
Click here for full storyAustralia plans to build the southern hemisphere's biggest wind farm by 2013 as it scrambles to harness its abundance of clean energy sources, such as wind, solar, waves, geothermal and bioenergy, and fight climate change.
Click here for full storyIt’s difficult to look out over miles of waste rock and tailings from a century of copper mining in the American Southwest and see anything but environmental destruction.
Click here for full storyBUSINESS believes a hung parliament and the Greens holding the Senate balance of power could cause uncertainty and hit economic reform.
Click here for full storyVestas, the world's biggest wind turbine manufacturer, has spread a dark cloud over the renewable energy sector by turning a sizeable second-quarter profit last year into a €120m (£99m) loss over the past three months.
Click here for full storyThe tough environment being faced by many companies in the green energy field was highlighted again today when a British solar power company reported a huge downturn in profits for the first half of the year.
Click here for full storyLabor and the Coalition justify their weak policies on climate change and pollution by arguing that they do not want Australia to move too far ahead of other countries. The truth is that their policies are already falling behind China and other major emitters.
Click here for full storyAmid the hurly-burly of the election campaign, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been stalked by an unusual protester: an elephant. Its accompanying sign reads: "The elephant is in the room: reduce (carbon) pollution."
Click here for full storyCLIMATE change, education and immigration are the top three political issues Australians seek on the internet, new research reveals.
Click here for full storyClimate change is the most popular search engine query election issue, followed by education then immigration, according to Experian Hitwis
Click here for full storyIn Australia, wave energy is quickly emerging as a potential and viable renewable energy source for generating electricity. The World Energy Council has identified the southern margin of Australia as one among the world’s promising sites towards wave-energy generation.
Click here for full storyAustralia’s Greens party would raise the government’s proposed levy on coal and iron ore profits and push for a carbon tax if voters give the group more power in this weekend’s election, party leader Senator Bob Brown said.
Click here for full storyResearchers say ocean waves off the southern coast of Australia have the potential to generate as much as half of the country's current electricity needs.
Click here for full storyAustralian scientists have mapped out the best places across the nation's southern coast for generating wave energy, all the way from Geraldton in Western Australia to King Island in Tasmania.
Click here for full storyA new report by analyst Bloomberg New Energy Finance shows that global governments’ support for fossil fuel industry is about 10 times that offered to renewable energy says the WA Sustainable Energy Association Inc. (WA SEA).
Click here for full storyGillard believes and Abbott doesn't - but neither will do anything anyway. Let's try a round of word association. China on climate change. What's the first thing that comes to mind? For those paying passing attention to what qualifies as a climate change debate in Australia, the answer is likely to be: villain-in-chief.
Click here for full storyThe Arkx Clean Energy Fund’s managers are Australians who don’t have a dollar invested in Australia, a stance that’s unlikely to change after the Aug. 21 election.
Click here for full storyAccording to the Greens South Australian Senate candidate Penny Wright, four potential wind energy projects on the Eyre Peninsula could more than double South Australia’s wind-sourced electricity generation capacity to 7500 megawatts if better transmission infrastructure were available.
Click here for full storyGottlieb Paludan, a Danish architectural firm, has come up with a revolutionary plan to store green energy which may help to solve the world energy crisis.
Click here for full storyIT has three wheels and a top speed of 120km/h, and it's Australia's entry in the first zero-emission around-the-world electric vehicle race.
Click here for full storyIt's not exactly rocket science – when building a wind farm, look for a site that is, well, quite windy. But more than half of Britain’s wind farms are operating at less than 25 per cent capacity.
Click here for full storyThe German newspaper Der Spiegel reports Aug 14 that the utilities threatened to shut down the reactors on their own unless the tax is replaced with a fixed contribution to a renewable energy fund. They claim the tax will severely cut dividends to shareholders and funds for capital investment though none is planned for new reactors.
Click here for full storyChina Huaneng Group Corp and Datang Corp, the country's top power producers, plan to float shares of their renewable energy units in Hong Kong in offerings that could raise over $2 billion, sources close to the deals said on Tuesday.
Click here for full storyToday there's a whole menu of options for going beyond the petroleum era, from biofuels and next-generation nuclear power to solar-powered syngas production. But which option will be the "magic bullet" for America's next energy era? It turns out that every energy alternative has its pluses and its minuses, just as oil, coal and natural gas do.
Click here for full storyThat's how Australian father-and-son team Nick and Jason Jones hope to circle the globe in their custom built electric vehicle.
Click here for full storyTRANSITION to a low-emission global economy is "vital", Rio Tinto's Doug Ritchie said today. At the same time, the miner’s energy chief said climate change “represents uncertainty and potential volatility to the mining industry”.
Click here for full storyTONY ABBOTT has restated his sceptical views on climate change, and suggested the world may be getting cooler, as the Australian Academy of Science released a new report warning of the future impact of global warming.
Click here for full storyChris Huhne has hit back at reports suggesting the government is watering down its commitment to phase out the UK's dirtiest power plants, insisting the government remains fully committed to banning new coal-fired power stations built without carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Writing in a letter to the Guardian in response to yesterday's front page story claiming that the UK's dirtiest coal plants have won a government reprieve, the energy and climate change secretary said the "idea that we are watering down our commitment is simply incorrect".
Click here for full storyIreland’s renewable energy sources have a potential three times the country’s energy requirements. According to the book ‘Green & Gold – Ireland a Clean Energy World Leader?’ by Alternative Energy Resources CEO John Travers, 20% of total Irish energy needs can be met by renewable energy within the next 10 years and 80% by 2050 and that 20% of Irish GDP can be derived from clean energy exports.
Click here for full storyThe Victorian Government has called for applications from businesses and community groups for grants under the $3 million first round of the state's Solar Photovoltaic Hubs program. The program will add 8.6 megawatts of community-based solar power to the grid by 2013. Grants for the solar hubs will range from $250,000 to $1 million.
Click here for full storyErnst & Young's (E&Y) announcement that it is launching a dedicated practice to support the UK's clean technology sector is the latest development to highlight the attractions of the sustainability business for the big consultancies. While E&Y claims to be the first to set up a practice specifically for cleantech, in recent years PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, KPMG and E&Y have all launched dedicated practices for sustainability and climate change.
Click here for full storyA new survey of Australian politicians shows a clear majority believe climate change is happening, but many appear to be unsure about some of its consequences.
Click here for full storyA NEW carbon farming initiative has been unveiled by the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, during her first rural visit of the Federal election campaign near Ballina on Saturday.
Click here for full storyIS THE great Australian boom, the longest in any developed country, over? Yes, said Ross Garnaut, one of the country's most respected economists, in a seminal lecture last week.
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