Resisting Desire to Control Nature Key to China’s and the United States’ Green Future

15th century painting, “Poet on a Mountain Top” by Shen Zhou via The Nameless Blog In an interesting interview over at China Dialogue , reporter for The Guardian and author of the new book When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts offers an important insight into the different tugging philosophical perspectives that have driven, and are now driving, China’s attitudes towards the environment. It all comes down to the difference between

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Resisting Desire to Control Nature Key to China’s and the United States’ Green Future

Everything You Need to Know About Global Warming in 5 Minutes – As Told by Top Hedge Fund Manager

The best easily digestible-but-accurate synopsis I’ve read on climate change in quite a while wasn’t written by a climate scientist, or a green writer for that matter. Nope, it was written by a top hedge fund manager

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Everything You Need to Know About Global Warming in 5 Minutes – As Told by Top Hedge Fund Manager

$1.2 Billion Secured for What Will Be the Largest US Wind Farm

Terra-Gen Power just secured a whopping 1.2 billion dollars in financing to up the ante on United States wind farms . With this latest round of cash they’ll be adding 570 megawatts of capacity to their Alta Wind Energy Center in Kern County, California to bring the total capacity up to a mega-impressive 3,000 megawatts making it the largest wind farm in the United States. The farm should be completed and ready for juicing the grid with renewable energy by the first and second quarters of 2011.

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$1.2 Billion Secured for What Will Be the Largest US Wind Farm

Massive Robot Elephant Cobbled Together with Reclaimed Materials

We’ve explored the joys of recycled robots before, but never any quite as elephantine as, well… this giant elephant. Built in France as part of the Machines of the Isle of Nantes, an art and culture show full of dream and fantasy, the 12 meter high x 8 meter wide mechanical elephant was cobbled together using 45 tons of reclaimed wood and steel.

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Massive Robot Elephant Cobbled Together with Reclaimed Materials

Final Thoughts on a Dead Climate Bill

Photo via the Guardian I know I’ve ranted and raved a fair amount about the ignominious death of comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation . But lest we all head into our weekends wholly downtrodden and helpless-feeling, a few more words need to be uttered before the casket is lowered into the ground for good (am I getting carried away with this metaphor, here?). Here are some important final thoughts on the demise of the climate bill — and where we can and should go from here

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Introducing the Senate’s Pathetic New "Energy" Bill

Okay, so I’ve been up in arms about the official demise of the climate bill in the Senate . I took pains to document who was responsible for killing it . But I neglected to mention amidst all the ranting that the Senate is still working on something

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Introducing the Senate’s Pathetic New "Energy" Bill

US Wastes $200 Billion on Environmentally Damaging Subsidies

photo: Nick Ares via flickr A new report by the Green Scissors Campaign details some $200 billion worth of yearly US government subsidies that the coalition says are “wasteful to taxpayers, harmful to the environment and bad for consumers.” Green Scissors 2010 [PDF] covers four broad areas in which these subsidies occur– energy, agriculture and biofuels, infrastructure, and public lands.

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US Wastes $200 Billion on Environmentally Damaging Subsidies

U.S. House Takes up Toxic Chemical Reform Bill

 A bill similar to one in the Senate aimed at overhauling the United States’ toxic chemicals law was introduced in the House of Representatives.

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Massive Green Roof Helps Postal Service Deliver Big Energy Savings

Green roofs, green buildings and an energy management system has put the United States Postal Service on the fast track to its 2015 energy reduction goal.

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Fate of Biggest US Mountaintop Removal Mining Project to be Decided This Year

Mountaintop Removal Mining Site.

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