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The Nightmare Energy Audit Customer

April 14, 2011 by Peter Troast
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"Hello, I am here to conduct your energy audit." "Great. I have 20 minutes before I have to leave for work; I hope that you are done by then."  So begins this hilarious video from the user calling him/herself "LeRage" at Xtranormal. (Xtranormal is a site where users make movies by simply typing in text; LeRage is a thinly veiled... [read more]

Will Japan Disaster Set Back US Nuclear Program? Green Skeptic on FOX Business

March 14, 2011 by Scott Edward Anderson
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This morning I talked with Stuart Varney of Fox Business about the future of nuclear power in America and the environmental impact of the crisis in Japan. Here is the video: Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com and a link to the program: Green Skeptic on FOX Business. [read more]

Jake Schmidt - Video Blog Day 1: The mood in Mexico for the Global Warming Negotiations

November 30, 2010 by nrdc switchboard
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Today is my first video blog from the global warming negotiations in Mexico where key steps need to be agreed.  I’ll be doing a series of these throughout the two weeks, covering what happened during the day, where is progress occurring, and what is the final outcome of this session shaping up to look like. In today’s video I cover... [read more]

CA Considers Feed-in-Tariff: Green Skeptic on FOX Business

October 14, 2010 by Scott Edward Anderson
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I was on FOX Business with Varney & Co this morning, trying to set the record straight on Feed-in-Tariffs (and why I don't like them: it's NOT about the money). It was a lively discussion -- and Stuart revealed that he has a wind turbine on his farm in New Zealand that is not only generating power, but some NZDollahs too. [read more]

Reporter scuba dives in oil-polluted waters

June 9, 2010 by Alisha Fowler
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Crossposted from the ACE Blog. As the oil disaster continues to unfold, we are getting part of the story. We see heartbreaking pictures of wildilfe and hear accounts of devastation from fishermen and other hunters. But we want to know the whole story. What's the consistency of this oil? How is it moving through the water? How fast?... [read more]

Rep. Markey: Public Has a Right to See All BP Video Feeds of Oil Spill

May 25, 2010 by Osha Davidson
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Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) released a video today showing live feeds of the BP oil pipe leak seen from different angles, and others of different sites related to the underwater disaster. Markey, chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee, said... [read more]

Climate Bill reactions

May 13, 2010 by Doris de Guzman
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I am trying to wrap up my article on EPA's GHG rule on stationary sources when I just saw on twitter that the EPA is expecting to announce its guidelines for that rule today. Aarrrrgh!! So while my article is in limbo, we'll take a brief look on the newly introduced 1,000 page climate bill entitled "American Power Act" by Senators Kerry... [read more]

Updated - Jeff Mazo's Climate Conflict Presentation

April 27, 2010 by Andrew Holland
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Last week, on Wednesday 21 April, 2010 Jeffrey Mazo, the IISS' Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy, launched his new Adelphi Book, Climate Conflict: How Global Warming Threatens Security and What to Do about it. I wrote a brief review of the book a few weeks ago, and it should be required reading for... [read more]

New Digs for Dot Earth 2.0

April 8, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
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Andrew Revkin's well-regarded Dot Earth blog has moved to the Opinion page, now that he has moved on from his staff position at the New York Times. As Curtis Brainerd notes at the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), Revkin "has expressed a desire to move even farther beyond the constraints of traditional news reporting." To kick off the "... [read more]

New Movie: "Climate Refugees"

March 26, 2010 by Andrew Holland
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Last night, I attended a screening of the new movie "Climate Refugees" at the UK Embassy here in Washington.  The film was an impressive travelogue to all of the 'hot spots' that are at the frontlines of climate change.  They visited Bangladesh, Tuvalu, Northern Alaska, New Orleans, inland China, and Darfur. ... [read more]

Video: Have we pushed Earth past the tipping point?

March 26, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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In a new video, the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment asks a critical question: “Have we pushed Earth past the tipping point?” Humanity developed civilization within a small zone of environmental conditions, but in the last century we have begun reshaping our planet, accelerating the process in recent years: We’ve... [read more]

Video: EDF launches Fleet Efficiency

February 10, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Environmental Defense Fund has been working on fleet efficiency because: Fleet vehicles are driven hard, averaging nearly double the mileage, fuel consumption and emissions of personal vehicles. As a result, fleets are not only expensive to operate but are also a major source of global warming pollution. Interested companies... [read more]

Jenkins on ABC: U.S. Needs a National Strategy to Win the Clean Energy Race

February 1, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
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Jesse Jenkins joined ABC's Diane Sawyer on "The Conversation" via Skype today, to discuss clean technology competitiveness in the United States. In the interview, Jenkins emphasized the findings of the Breakthrough Institute/ITIF report, "Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant," explaining to Ms. Sawyer that a national strategy for clean tech... [read more]

Best of Green Viral Videos

January 3, 2010 by MichaelSmith1
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Heavy Oil: Blessing or curse? Part I

December 17, 2007 by margogerritsen
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The world is not running out of oil any time soon, at least not the easier to get to, lighter kind. It is estimated that there are of the order of a trillion barrels of heavy oil in the world that can be produced at the current oil price. Is this good news? Not necessarily. These heavy oils, like the tar sands in Alberta or the shale... [read more]