Renewable Energy

Newsletter – In With The New!

January 2, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Empire, Food and Agriculture, Housing, Internet, Media, Neoliberalism, New Economy, Renewable Energy, TPP

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. For the new year, we thought we would start with a newsletter that highlights a critical task of the movement for transformation - the creation of alternative systems to replace the current dysfunctional systems. There are exciting advances in this work. There were many actions of resistance this past week, especially around the holidays, and you can read about them here. In addition to stopping harmful policies and practices, people are creating alternatives that may mature to a place where they replace the current systems and the current systems of capitalism, oppression, militarism, racism, etc, will wither away. We call this combination "Stop the machine, create a new world".

Painted Massive Sun On Paris Streets Demands Renewable Energy Policy

December 12, 2015 Willa Frej, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! COP21, Paris, Renewable Energy

By Willa Frej for The Huffington Post Climate activists gathered Friday morning to give COP21 negotiators a little encouragement and send a message to the French government: get France to commit to producing 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. Environmental group Greenpeace commissioned 80 activists from Germany, France and Belgium to paint a large, yellow sun on Paris' Etoile -- the roundabout that encircles the Arc de Triomphe. They used washable paint that isn't environmentally harmful, Greenpeace said.

COP21: Technology For 100% Renewable Energy Future Already In Place

December 11, 2015 Staff, www.tidalenergytoday.com Create! COP21, Renewable Energy

By Staff of Tidal Energy Today - International renewable energy organisations have come together at COP21 in Paris to demonstrate that reliable 100% renewable energy is not only possible, but that systems already exist today with significant potential for expansion. The side event, organised by the REN Alliance, a partnership of organisations representing the solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower and bioenergy sectors, aimed to demonstrate the realities of 100% renewables at all scales. The event provided case studies of communities, cities, countries and regions where various high-penetration combinations of renewable energy technologies are working together.

Join Global Resistance: Keep Coal, Oil + Gas In The Ground

December 11, 2015 Staff, www.breakfree2016.org Resist! Fossil Fuels, Protests, Renewable Energy

By Staff of Break Free 2016 - From 7–15 May, 2016 we are mobilising to keep fossil fuels in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. We now have a unique opportunity to end the use of destructive fossil fuels and choose a clean energy future. This May we hope to see more people than ever commit to joining actions that disrupt the industry’s power by targeting the world’s most dangerous fossil fuel projects, and supporting the most ambitious climate solutions.

Project Censored 2015: Top Ten News Stories The Media Ignored

November 29, 2015 Tim Redmond, www.cascadiaweekly.com Educate! Arctic, Drones, Enviornment, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Fukushima, Groundwater, killed by police, Mass Media, Methane, Oil and Gas, Poverty, Propaganda, Renewable Energy, spying, Wealth Ineqaulity

By Tim Redmond for Cascadia Weekly. As Project Censored staffers Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth note, 90 percent of U.S. news media—the traditional outlets that employ full-time reporters—are controlled by six corporations. “The corporate media hardly represent the mainstream,” the staffers wrote in the current edition’s introduction. “By contrast, the independent journalists that Project Censored has celebrated since its inception are now understood as vital components of what experts have identified as the newly developing ‘networked fourth estate.’”

‘Bright Spots’ Worldwide Show 100% Renewable Can And Must Be Done

November 9, 2015 Andrea Germanos, www.commondreams.org Create! Climate Change, Renewable Energy

By Andrea Germanos for Common Dreams - As a new UN report finds that emissions pledges made by governments for the upcoming climate talks in Paris represent just half of what they need to be to keep warming under the 2C threshold, places around the world are proving themselves to be "bright spots" in the transition to a clean energy. In one recent example, Austria's biggest state and home to over 1.6 million people, Lower Austria, said Thursday that all of its electricity is now being generated by renewables. "We have invested heavily to boost energy efficiency and to expand renewables," Agence France-Presse quotes Erwin Proell, premier of Lower Austria, as telling reporters.

Global Shift To 100% Renewables Not Just Cleaner – It’s About Equality

November 5, 2015 Anna Leidreiter, www.theguardian.com Create! Renewable Energy

By Anna Leidreiter for The Guardian - As the world’s energy system shifts from fossil fuels to renewable sources, the question is no longer if the world will transition to sustainable energy, but how long it will take and whether the transition can be made in ways that maximise the benefits today and for future generations. Changing our energy system is about more than replacing fossil resources with sun and wind. In fact, the economic model for renewables is completely different: 100% renewable energy can lead us to a more equal distribution of wealth. The differences start in the way our energy system is structured.

Europe Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions To Lowest Recorded

October 22, 2015 Tree Alerts, www.PopularResistance.org Create! Carbon, Climate Change, Europe, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy

By Tree Alerts - Greenhouse gas emissions in Europe are at their lowest level ever recorded, while the EU’s economy continues to expand, a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) reveals. The bloc has already gone past the 20 per cent cuts pledged for 2020, with emissions down 23 per cent on 1990 levels last year, according to the analysis. The EEA report shows that while emissions have plunged, the European economy has grown by 46 per cent. Renewable energy - which now provides over a quarter of European electricity - both cuts emissions and contributes to Europe’s economy. Last year 1.2 million people were working in the renewables industry in Europe, which is a major exporter and has breathed new life into areas across the continent.

Honduran Fishing Village Says Adios To Candles And Dirty Energy

October 12, 2015 Thelma Mejía, www.ipsnews.net Create! Honduras, Renewable Energy

By Thelma Mejía for IPS and Ecologist Horizons, PLAN GRANDE, Honduras, Oct 1 2015 (IPS) - A small fishing village on the Caribbean coast of Honduras has become an example to be followed in renewable energies, after replacing candles and dirty costly energy based on fossil fuels with hydropower from a mini-dam, while reforesting the river basin. They now have round-the-clock electric power, compared to just three hours a week in the past. The community, Plan Grande, is in the municipality of Santa Fe in the northern department of Colón, and can only be reached by sea, after a 10-hour, 400-km drive from Tegucigalpa on difficult roads to the village of Río Coco on the Caribbean coast.

World Bank Fails To ‘Walk The Talk’

October 11, 2015 Educate! Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy, World Bank

By Janet Redman for the Institute for Policy Studies. Washington, DC - At least in rhetoric, World Bank leadership has acknowledged for a quarter century that “the possible risks [of global warming] are too high to justify complacency or evasion.” The Bank itself has cautioned that unabated climate change threatens to reverse hard-earned development gains — and that the poorest countries and communities will suffer the consequences first and worst. The Bank has become increasingly visible at global climate summits and officials regularly comment on the need for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, protecting the climate and making a transition to low-carbon development. However, a sober review of its lending practices reveals the Bank is undermining the cause it purports to champion.

Wind & Solar Becoming Cost Competitive With Carbon Fuels

October 8, 2015 Ethan Zindler, www.about.bnef.com Educate! Renewable Energy

By Ethan Zindler for Bloomberg New Energy Finance, London and New York, 6 October 2015 – This year has brought a significant shift in the generating cost comparison between renewable energy and fossil fuels, according to detailed analysis by technology and region, published this week by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The research company’s Levelised Cost of Electricity Update for the second half of 2015, based on thousands of data points related to individual deals and projects around the world, shows that onshore wind and crystalline silicon photovoltaics – the two most widespread renewable technologies – have both reduced costs this year, while costs have gone up for gas-fired and coal-fired generation. The BNEF study shows that the global average levelised cost of electricity, or LCOE, for onshore wind nudged downwards from $85 per megawatt-hour in the first half of the year, to $83 in H2, while that for crystalline silicon PV solar fell from $129 to $122.

The Big Reason Why America Is Turning To Renewable Energy

August 13, 2015 Tara Lohan, www.alternet.org Educate! Energy, Finance and the Economy, Oil & Gas, Renewable Energy

By Tara Lohan in Alternet - Deborah Lawrence had been watching a once-empty parking lot near Midland-Odessa, Texas, fill up with idled drilling rigs usually at work plumbing for oil in the nearby Permian Basin. In January she noticed 10 rigs, then 17 a few weeks later. As winter turned to spring, the number climbed to 35. That trend has continued across the country. By the end of July, the nationwide rig count had slipped 54 percent since the same time a year ago, indicating distress in the oil and gas industry. The most obvious culprit is the precipitous drop in crude prices. But the trouble goes deeper, as Lawrence knows — and she isn’t just a casual observer. Lawrence is a former Wall Street financial consultant who now runs the Energy Policy Forum, helping to identify and analyze trends in the industry. Right now, our fossil-fueled energy path has us on a roller-coaster ride and we are plunging, white knuckled.

Missouri Supreme Court Decision Is A Victory For Solar Industry

June 5, 2015 Renew Missouri, www.earthisland.org Create! Environment, Law, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy

By Renew Missouri in Earth Island - In February, Missouri’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of Renew Missouri, a project of Earth Island Institute, and against Missouri-based Empire District Electric Company in a contentious case about solar rebates. Under the ruling, Empire must begin complying with a key component of a state law that Renew Missouri helped create and begin offering rebates to customers who install solar rooftop systems to offset some of the installation costs. With this latest victory for clean energy under his belt, Renew Missouri co-founder PJ Wilson reflected on all that’s happened over the past few years, including his path towards becoming a renewable energy advocate. Back in the late 1990s, when he was studying civil engineering at the University of Southern California, Wilson didn’t think much about where energy came from.

47 Groups Sponsor Rally Outside CT Governors’ Energy Summit

April 24, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Gas, Pipelines, Renewable Energy

This morning, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy hosted an energy summit of five New England governors to address energy challenges facing the region. As the governors met, community leaders from across New England gathered outside to express their discontent with a decision-making process that has been entirely closed to citizen input, and to spell out what a sane and healthy energy future would look like. Huge corporations have proposed new fossil-fuel power plants and pipelines all over New England, sparking fierce resistance from local residents concerned about public health, climate change, and environmental degradation. Over the last year, grassroots groups have formed several new cross-state coalitions in order to fight proposed fossil-fuel infrastructure in a unified way.

In Midst Of Oil Spill, Vancouver To Go 100% Renewable

April 12, 2015 Natasha Geiling, www.nationofchange.org Create! Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas, Renewable Energy

There’s some mixed news coming out of Vancouver, Canada this week. On the one hand, the city announced at an international sustainability summit that it would commit to using 100 percent renewable energy to power its electricity, transportation, heating and air conditioning within 20 years. On the other hand, Vancouver is also dealing with a fuel spill in the waters of English Bay that is washing up on beaches and threatening wildlife. On March 26, Vancouver’s city council voted unanimously to approve Mayor Gregor Robertson motion calling for a long-term commitment to deriving all of the city’s energy from renewable sources. At the ICLEI World Congress 2015 this week in Seoul, South Korea, the city went a step further, committing to reaching that goal of 100 percent renewable electricity, transportation, heating and air conditioning by 2030 or 2035.

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