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NRG Energy Hopes To Score Big With Solar

November 22, 2011 by Marc Gunther
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  The view from the NRG suite at Redskins Park The Washington Redskins played with enough energy to send Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys into overtime, but by the time the ‘Skins fell to their sixth consecutive loss, my host at Redskins Park  — David Crane, the chief executive of NRG Energy — had left. Actually, he... [read more]

Ground broken on U.S’ first big solar power plant in 20 years

October 27, 2010 by Todd Woody
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photo: Todd Woody In Yale Environment 360 on Wednesday, I interview John Woolard, chief executive of BrightSource Energy, the California solar developer that has begun construction of the first large-scale solar thermal power plant to be built in the United States in two decades: Today, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Interior... [read more]

Video alert: When the Water Ends

October 26, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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When The Water Ends: Africa’s Climate Conflicts: For thousands of years, nomadic herdsmen have roamed the harsh, semi-arid lowlands that stretch across 80 percent of Kenya and 60 percent of Ethiopia. Descendants of the oldest tribal societies in the world, they survive thanks to the animals they raise and the crops they grow, their... [read more]

The Greening of Silicon Valley: It Looks Like the Next Big Thing

May 3, 2010 by Big Gav
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Todd Woody has an article at Yale Environment 360 on the technology industry's interest in clean energy, noting "companies such as Google, Adobe Systems, and eBay are preparing for the next step — investing in off-site solar and wind installations and innovative technologies that will supply their offices and data centers with green... [read more]

An interview with eSolar's Bill Gross

March 8, 2010 by Todd Woody
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photo: Todd Woody In an interview I did with green tech entrepreneur Bill Gross for Yale Environment 360, Gross talks about the future of solar energy, his relationship with Google, and how to avoid battles over building large solar farms in the deserts of the Southwest: Bill Gross is not your typical solar energy entrepreneur. In a... [read more]

Putting a Price on Carbon: An Emissions Cap or a Tax?

March 3, 2010 by John Whitehead
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Yale Environment 360 asked a number of environmentalists, economists, and academics to explain which approach – cap-and-trade or a carbon tax – they preferred. There was disagreement on many points, but on one issue most concurred. As Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, said, imposing some sort of... [read more]

How Energy Efficiency Will Put Us On The Moon

October 8, 2009 by Peter Troast
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A recent column from Thomas Friedman drew a lot of attention, declaring as it did that 1) clean energy is the Sputnik of our era, 2) China is overtaking us in what Friedman calls "E.T." (energy technology) investment, and 3) if we neglect to realize the importance of E.T., we can kiss our global leadership hat goodbye.  ... [read more]